Southfield man sentenced for shooting 13-year-old boy in the head at Detroit gas station
DETROIT – Damarian Johnson was 13 years old when he was shot in the head at a Detroit gas station.
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“I want you to know that day was the worst day of my life,” Johnson’s mother, Diane Brathwaite, said. “The day you shot him. He was learning to drive earlier that day. Now he’s back to being an infant again.”
Johnson is nearly 16 now and has severe brain damage because of the shooting.
“He can’t walk. He can’t talk. He can’t laugh. He can’t smile. The only way he can express emotion is crying. Pain is the only emotion I’ve seen since this happened,” Diane Brathwaite said.
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- Damarian Johnson was 13 years old when he was shot in the head at a Detroit gas station. Click here to read more.
- Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan on Monday announced former assistant police chief James White has been named the city’s interim police chief. Click here to read more.
- Marilyn Langley, whose vulnerable husband with dementia and Parkinson’s disease, was targeted at a family yard sale spent most of the day sitting in the same spot during the event. Click here to read more.
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