6-25-07
A mischievous game of rock throwing turned deadly for one nine-year-old boy, when a neighbor who was tired of the shenanigans retrieved his shotgun and shot the child. Police were called and found the boy, Demotric Moore, bleeding with
a critical gunshot wound to the neck.  He was pronounced dead after being transported to a local hospital.

The episode was apparently the accumulation of an ongoing feud between Jonathin Watts, 50, and the other children in the neighborhood. “Apparently, rock throwing had been an ongoing problem,” said EI Dorado police captain David Smith. Police had been called to Watts’ home on a number of occasions, including one where the 50-year-old “had thrown a brick at a small child … in retaliation for a child throwing rocks,” said Smith.

Police were initially summoned on reports of a man with a BB gun. Upon finding the child wounded and spotting Watts inside his home, they ordered him to the ground at gunpoint and arrested him. “I’ve had it with these kids and the rock throwing,” he was reported to have said as police handcuffed him. According to police reports, the murder weapon was a shotgun, not a BB gun, and Watts told officers that he’d thrown the murder weapon away. He was being held awaiting charges.