Fourteen year old Brennan
Walker went looking for help at at a suburban Detroit home when he missed his school bus.
Walker was trying to walk the bus route to Rochester
High School after he woke up late and missed his bus. His mom had taken his
phone away, so he didn't have that with him to get directions. So he knocked on
a stranger’s door for help --the homeowner shot at him, reported FOX2.
"I got to the house, and I knocked on the
lady's door. Then she started yelling at me and she was like, 'Why are you
trying to break into my house?' I was trying to explain to her that I was
trying to get directions to Rochester High. And she kept yelling at me. Then
the guy came downstairs, and he grabbed the gun, I saw it and started to run.
And that's when I heard the gunshot," he says.
Thankfully, the man missed. Brennan kept running,
hid, then cried.
"My mom says that, black boys get shot because
sometimes they don't look their age, and I don't look my age. I'm 14; but I
don't look 14. I'm kind of happy that, like, I didn't become a statistic,"
he says in retrospect.
Oakland County Sheriff Deputies arrived soon after
to the home on South Christian Hills Drive and took the woman's husband into
custody.
Lisa was at work when she got the call. She says her
husband is deployed in Syria, so she was assuming she was getting a call about
him until she realized they were calling about Brennan. She dropped everything
and immediately went to the substation to be with her son.
That's where investigators told her the family's
Ring doorbell recorded the encounter. Investigators watched the video with
Brennan and his mom. She says the video confirmed their suspicions.
"One of the things that stands out, that
probably angers me the most is, while I was watching the tape, you can hear the
wife say, 'Why did "these people" choose my house?'" she says,
before taking a long pause. "Who are, "these people?" And that
set me off. I didn't want to believe it was what it appeared to look like. When
I heard her say that, it was like, but it is [what it looks like]."
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