The day after arresting a Miami mother for not taking her 6-year-old son to a doctor after she learned he’d been grazed by a bullet, police arrested the boy’s father, the first parent who knew the boy had been shot and didn’t seek medical care.
Laqayette Dock, 21, remains in jail charged with child neglect with great bodily harm and child abuse by neglect. The shot boy’s father, 22-year-old Trayon Fussell-Dumas, posted bond on the same charges and a bench warrant for misdemeanor marijuana possession.
According to their arrest reports, Fussell-Dumas had left his son at a relative’s home at some point during the weekend (his arrest report says Sunday, hers says Saturday). He came back to a panicky household — his son had been shot.
The boy was well enough to run over to Fussell-Dumas and tell his father a cousin had shot him. The arrest affidavit describes it as “an open abrasion which was large enough to expose body tissue.”
Fussell-Dumas “admitted when he observed the wound, he knew it was bad enough for treatment,” his arrest report said. “However, he was scared to take the victim to the hospital for treatment.”
When he took his son back to Dock’s home he figured Dock would take the boy to a hospital. Though one of the boy’s aunts told Dock to take him to a hospital right then, Dock took care of the wound herself.
Monday was the first day back from spring break for Miami-Dade County Public Schools. The boy told his school principal what happened.
So far, none of the relatives present when an 8-year-old got hold of a gun and shot his cousin have been arrested.
The day after cops arrested Mom for not taking shot son to hospital, they arrested Dad
Miami residents Laqayette Dock and Trayon Fussell-Dumas were arrested on child abuse and child neglect charges after each failed to take their 6-year-old son to the hospital after he was grazed with a bullet.
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