{"id":67672,"date":"2021-06-02T18:07:21","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T22:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=67672"},"modified":"2021-06-02T18:07:21","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T22:07:21","slug":"gladio-gun-control-now-theyre-putting-assault-rifles-into-the-hands-of-children-to-carry-out-shooting-rampages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stateofthenation.co\/?p=67672","title":{"rendered":"GLADIO GUN CONTROL: Now they’re putting assault rifles into the hands of children to carry out shooting rampages."},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Unbelievable:\u2019 Children, 12 and 14, use AK-47, other guns in shooting rampage on Volusia deputies<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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14-year-old girl shot, critically injured, Sheriff Mike Chitwood says<\/h3>\n

Adrienne Cutway
\nLocal10<\/p>\n

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VOLUSIA COUNTY, Fla.<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Two foster children broke into a Volusia County home Tuesday night, then used guns they found inside the residence — including an AK-47 — to repeatedly fire at deputies for about 30 minutes, according to sheriff\u2019s officials.<\/p>\n

News outlet\u00a0WKMG<\/a>\u00a0reported that deputies said they were in the area of 1050 Enterprise Osteen Road looking for a 14-year-old girl and a 12-year-old boy with diabetes who ran away from a Florida United Methodist Children\u2019s Home, a foster home.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo the deputies in the Deltona area go out looking for this 12-year-old and this 14-year-old because the 12-year-old is insulin-dependent and the 12-year-old, if he doesn\u2019t get his medication within four hours, it\u2019s going to be a critical medical emergency,\u201d Volusia County Sheriff Mike Chitwood said.<\/p>\n

Deputies were near a trail when a resident approached and said glass was heard shattering at a nearby home. When deputies went to that residence, they noticed obvious signs of forced entry.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd the amazing thing is they don\u2019t do what I would have done. I would have walked in because I have an eyewitness telling me two juveniles just forced their way into the home,\u201d Chitwood said. \u201cThey take a step back and contact the homeowner and say, \u2018Should anybody have access to your home?\u2019 as resources are pouring in to surround the property.\u201d<\/p>\n

The homeowner had recently left and said no one should be at the residence but that there was an AK-47, a pump shotgun, a handgun and 200 rounds of ammunition inside, records show.<\/p>\n

Deputies said the children grabbed the guns and opened fire at deputies at about 8:30 p.m. They also used baseball bats to destroy furniture, toilets and a tub, according to authorities.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt 8:28, one of my sergeants who was the first to arrive, Sgt. Donnie Maxwell, takes fire multiple times, never returns fire. At 8:31, one of our units reports they\u2019re being fired at by the 12- and the 14-year-old. At 8:33, another call comes out from another group of deputies surrounding the home saying that shots were fired. At 8:40, the 14-year-old emerges from the property and threatens to kill Sgt. Maxwell. At 8:54, the juvenile male, armed with an AK-47, opens fire on deputies,\u201d Chitwood said.<\/p>\n

Up to that point, deputies hadn\u2019t returned fire, according to the sheriff. Instead, he said they tried to deescalate the situation and stepped into the line of fire to throw a cellphone into the house in hopes of ending things peacefully.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe 14-year-old comes out of the garage with a pump shotgun, levels it at deputies and despite warnings to drop it, she walked back into the garage, she comes back a second time, and that\u2019s when deputies opened fire after taking multiple rounds,\u201d Chitwood said.<\/p>\n

The girl was shot in the chest and in the arm. According to Chitwood, she\u2019s fighting for her life.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy deputies showed more restraint than I\u2019m showing right now because I am furious that we could be burying somebody tonight. They took multiple, multiple rounds… And I know for a fact one banana clip was empty from the AK-47. I know from the radio transmissions that a 12-year-old opened fire on us. I know that the 14-year-old opened fire on us with a shotgun and then walked out and threatened one of my sergeants and told him she was going to kill him. And we didn\u2019t return fire. But after she came out of the garage, hey, there was nothing left that we could do. We had to do what we had to do,\u201d Chitwood said.<\/p>\n

Deputies immediately applied tourniquets and rendered aid while also turning their attention to the 12-year-old boy, who was still armed with the AK-47, according to Chitwood, who said the boy dropped the gun about 30 seconds later.<\/p>\n

Neither the boy nor any deputies were injured.<\/p>\n

\u201cI could not be prouder of the way my deputies acted. They went above and beyond for what they did. And also, I know tonight I\u2019ll drop down on my hands and knees and pray that I\u2019m not going to somebody\u2019s home, one of my deputies\u2019 homes, and telling them that they were killed in a line of duty and killed by a 12-year-old a 14-year-old. This is unbelievable,\u201d Chitwood said.<\/p>\n

He described the two juveniles as \u201cBonnie and Clyde\u201d and said they shot at deputies from several vantage points in the home, including the pool deck, the bedroom and from the garage.<\/p>\n

He called the pair \u201cevil.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cTheir conversation was they were going to kill my sergeant. They were coming out to kill cops. They were coming out to kill deputies, that\u2019s the conversation,\u201d Chitwood said.<\/p>\n

The sheriff, at times shouting, lambasted the juvenile justice system and the Florida United Methodist Children\u2019s Home. He said the 14-year-old girl has been in trouble with the law before, including when she stole puppies and set her prior facility in Flagler County on fire. After that, she was sent to Volusia County.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe brainiacs in Tallahassee, they want to do this restorative justice stuff. They need to take a deep look and say, \u2018Something\u2019s not right here,\u2019 because where the rubber meets the road, these kids are killers. They\u2019re capable of killing. This juvenile citation (expletive) that you hear from these faith groups, they need to worry about what\u2019s going on in the pulpit in their church, not worried about what\u2019s going on in the (expletive) streets when you have 14-year-olds and 12-year-olds arming themselves,\u201d Chitwood said.<\/p>\n

He said facilities like FUMCH aren\u2019t equipped to handle some of these children. He also noted that a\u00a0security guard was beaten to death<\/a>\u00a0there earlier this year. He called the home \u201ca complete failure,\u201d adding that deputies have been called there 289 times in the past year.<\/p>\n

The sheriff\u2019s office plans to release body-camera video of the shooting Wednesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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