Mix of bravado and access to guns contribute to mass shootings by teens in St. Louis, other cities -
What these and other recent mass shootings share in common is they all involve suspects in their teens, highlighting what can be a deadly mix of teenage bravado and impulsiveness with access to guns.“I remember when I was a child and we had fights — somebody got a black eye or a broken nose and lived to tell about it,” St. Louis Mayor Tishaura Jones told reporters after Sunday’s shooting.
“If we don’t figure it out, it’s going to continue to happen,” Sharonda Moore told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. “Witnesses said it sounded like a machine gun,” the investigator said. Afterward, 89 bullet casings littered the scene and there was “blood everywhere.” According to FBI data, around 90% of homicides in 2019 by teens 15 to 17 involved firearms, up from around 60% in 1980. Fox, though, said the rise in homicides by teens hasn’t correlated directly with the rising numbers of guns.
Investigators in St. Louis, Alabama and Florida didn’t immediately suggest motives for the respective shootings. But indications are tensions rose suddenly in each. Pushing and shoving between two groups preceded the Memorial Day shooting in Florida, when members of one group pulled guns and fired at the other and at bystanders, an affidavit alleged. Among those charged: a 15-year-old, a 16-year-old and an 18-year-old.
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