A white Michigan man who shot at a 14-year-old Black teen who was lost and asked for directions could be a free man in a matter of weeks.
The teen’s mother is furious the man who fired at her son has been granted parole.
“That was like a jab with a knife in my heart,” Lisa Wright told WJBK.
Brennan Walker was not injured on the morning of April 12, 2018, but the day still sticks with him psychologically.
“It still affects him very much. He can’t really talk about it without the emotions spewing from him,” Wright explained.
The Associated Press reports that on the day of the shooting, the then-14-year-old Walker woke up late for school and missed the school bus. He then started walking to school but got lost in the subdivision as he attempted to trace the route the school bus would take on the way to his high school.
WDIV reported Walker did not have his cellphone at the time because he was on punishment.
Realizing he was lost, he knocked on the doors of nearby homes. The first homeowner gave him some directions, but he got lost again. Once he reached Jeffery Zeigler’s home to ask for directions, things turned more serious. As he knocked, a woman started speaking to him through the door.
“Why are you trying to break into my house,” Walker recalled the woman said to him.
The incident was captured on surveillance video mounted at Zeigler’s front door. The teen said he was trying to explain to the woman he was seeking directions, but the woman kept yelling. It was during this time Zeigler came downstairs with a gun.
“Then the guy came downstairs, and he grabbed the gun. I saw it and started to run. And that’s when I heard the gunshot,” Walker said.
Walker immediately ran away from Zeigler’s home.
Zeigler was later charged with assault with the intent to murder, and he received a felony firearm charge.
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