8-Year Old Shot In The Face-For What Reason? [VIDEO]

CBS News 11 in Dallas, Texas is reporting that an 8 year old African American boy was shot in the face while playing a game of “tag.” The youth, “DJ” or Donald Maiden, Jr., was shot by a man who simply said “Yeah, I shot that kid” according to witnesses.

DJ’s mother, Latamarin Locklin, recounted, “When he ran in I just screamed. His mouth was just hanging off and it was just a big hole. I just threw him on the couch and laid him in my arms and put pressure on his mouth with the towel.”

The man who shot the 8-year old is Brian Colninger who was hanging around the apartment complex where the boy lived is in jail with a $2.2 million dollar bond.