According to authorities, Shaquille Latimore, a volunteer youth football coach in St. Louis, was shot in the back on Tuesday in front of his 9- and 10-year-old players by a father who was upset over his son’s playing time. Shaquille Latimore was hurt after Daryl Clemmons allegedly shot him four times at practise this week after a weeks-long argument finally broke out, according to the victim and the police.
In a statement to the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Latimore said, “I didn’t see his gun until it was too late.” “I ran, and he shot me in the back. “I fell, and he shot me a few more times.” He was supposedly made fun of while on the ground by Clemmons, the team’s previous coach before Latimore took over, before other adults jumped on.
After shooting me, he allegedly added, “I told you he was going to bust your [expletive],” according to Latimore. According to a probable cause statement released by the St. Louis Circuit Attorney’s Office, Latimore, 30, told officials that Clemmons was “upset with him for not initiating his son.”
Charges of first-degree assault and armed criminal activity were brought against Clemmons, 43. According to the Post-Dispatch, Latimore trains alongside his cousin and serves as a volunteer assistant coach for the 9- and 10-year-old St. Louis BadBoyz, a city recreational team. Because the field is in a sketchy part of town, he claimed to have been armed when he came as well, but before beginning practise, he gave the gun to another adult.
Latimore is accused of saying, “I relinquished my gun to someone else to hold. “I didn’t want [Clemmons] to feel endangered.” If he had been pointing the pistol, he continued, he “would have defended myself.” The coach, who is married and has five kids, was treated at a hospital and is presently in stable condition. SeMiko Latimore, the mother of the victim, referred to the shooting as “senseless.”
“Our job is to take these youngsters off the streets and instruct them in right and wrong behaviour. She told the newspaper, “We have all these kids who are traumatised since his coach was shot in front of them. I had no problem hitting one of those kids. It’s not unusual for out-of-control parents to vent their rage on coaches.
A Virginia father was detained in August when it was claimed that he assaulted the minor football coach of his son, giving the victim a black eye and bruised face.
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