MassLive.com readers are reacting strongly to the news about the death of 16-year-old Tyrel Wheeler. Wheeler died Sunday at Baystate Medical Center.
View full sizeMayor Domenic J. Sarno hands out cards with Text-a-Tip information to some teens at the scene of a shooting on Washington Street. Sarno, who lives a few blocks away, was heading home to his family when he saw all the police cars.MassLive.com readers are reacting strongly to the news about the death of 16-year-old Tyrel Wheeler. Wheeler was shot three times Thursday afternoon and found in a Forest Park neighborhood intersection shortly after he got out of a moving car that he had been driving. He died Sunday at Baystate Medical Center.
Wheeler is the third Springfield male, and the second teenager, to lose is life to gunfire over the last week.
Here's what some of our readers are saying:
luxuryone writes:
This is so sad, I can't even begin to imagine how these parents are coping with losing yet another child to the streets. As for capital punishment it wont/doesn't work as a deterrent, so why keep advocating for it? What we need is the National Guard to take over the crime ridden streets in Springfield until all this crap is dealt with by the mayor and Springfield PD.
angie.c912 writes:
I strongly agree that parents needs to step more but so does the community. You know the African proverb "It takes a village to raise a child"? What's lost are the days when the youth had something to do. How amazing would it be if every person that complained about the plight of the children of Springfield actually stood up and did something about it? When was the last time you took time out of you day to mentor a child, to show them there's more to life than hanging on the corner, banging, and waiting to die or go to jail?
atlantwoine writes:
I guess it must make it easier for people to go back to sleep when the emphasis is on the debate of whether or not this victim was a gang member instead of who shot him and why..... oh well... right?
Get one thing straight people...... today it was Fee's/tigers son..... who is it gonna be tommorow?
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