14-year-old boy shoots his mother 10 times; She wanted to keep him off the streets
A troubled 14-year-old Detroit boy broke into his step dad’s bedroom, stole a 12 gauge shotgun and used it to fire 10 shots into his mother as she slept on a couch in the living room of her home.
Police say Joshua Smith killed his mother, Tamiko Robinson, 36, in a hail of gunfire just after midnight on Monday. Grieving family members have custody of Robinson’s surviving 5-year-old daughter — Joshua’s little sister — who witnessed the crime.
According to FOX Detroit News, Robinson’s fiance was also in the house at the time of the shooting. He leapt through a plate glass window to avoid being shot.
After the shooting, police caught the teenager driving around in his mother’s stolen car. He is being held at a juvenile detention center without bond. A judge will determine this weekend if Joshua will be tried as an adult.
Robinson, a dialysis patient, who was battling lupus, struggled to keep Joshua off the streets. Friends say Joshua was a good student, who was on the swim team at Kettering High School. But the lure of the streets and gang banging was too powerful for him to resist.
According to family members, Robinson was a strict disciplinarian, who used the belt unsparingly to keep young Joshua in line. But the boy grew up fast. By age 13, he stood 6-2, and outweighed his sickly mother by at least 50 lbs.
Joshua’s uncle, LeShaun Roberts, told Fox Detroit News that Joshua, 14, “wanted to hang with the big boys,” who were in their twenties.
With her health slowly declining, Robinson may have become a burden to her son, whom she depended on to help around the house.
“His mother was real sick and she called him every time she needed something, and he was tired of that,” explained Roberts. Joshua reportedly ran away from home. But his determined mother found him and brought him back.
Joshua’s cousin, Ceilcia Smith, told FOX Detroit that stories about Joshua gang banging and using drugs were exaggerated.
“Everything everybody’s been talking about — he was joy riding, he was smoking, he was in a gang — you all are lying. He’s been with me,” Smith told FOX 2 News.
Smith said Joshua spent four days playing video games at her house before the shooting. “He [was] in one spot sitting there crying hysterically,” Smith said.
“That’s the reason we called the police. He said somebody shot his mama. He didn’t say he did it. He said somebody did it.”
Smith added: “I know my cousin [isn't] a straight up killer. He [isn't a] monster.”
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Good Lawd..what is this world coming too!
I’m confused. The cousin said he spent four days at her house playing video games BEFORE the shooting.
Then she says he was in that one place crying that somebody shot his mama.
WOW!!!!!!!!!!
I’m typeless.
LOL @ Maven…great minds think alike
but he is a monster and a straight up killer
so who shot her???
It’s always one relative defending the obvious killer. Where was she when the mother was trying to keep the boy out of the gang? I bet she’s only “been there” since this happened
Please Sandra, don’t start this into a if she would not have whipped him scenario. Other than that
£ the commenter formally known as Hershey says:
It’s always one relative defending the obvious killer. Where was she when the mother was trying to keep the boy out of the gang? I bet she’s only “been there” since this happened
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This is RIDICULOUS!!! I mean seriously
And that cousin needs to shut up! News flash: HE SHOT HER! His mother was sick with Lupus (and it can be very debilitating) and all he wanted to dow as play video games and run the streets? And what kind of influence is the cousin to let this CHILD play video games FOUR DAYS STRAIGHT?!!! Wasn’t he supposed to be in school? Just ugh!!!!
Until folks relaize that these a lot of these monsters are MADE and not born and stop excusing all this bull**** this crap will continue to happen! #endrant
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I made all sorts of typos in that post, lol
Oh my.. ::(: Lord help the children of today!
Why would he shoot 10 times??
@ breniqua – JUST SHAMEFUL!
FeFe says:
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its been the end of days, since the beginning! If this is true, this little boy knew what he was doing and to shoot his mother 10 times, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, & 10 he should be tried as an adult. If you can make adult decisions you should be treated as such. When I was a child i thought as a child……
What type of video games was he playing for four days
I know it’s hard during these times to feel sympathy for the “accuser” I pray for him as well what a tormented soul to do such a thing
A 12 gauge dont have 10 shots… you gotta reload do fire off 10 shots.
Unless she had a magazine loader. DAMN
And him being whipped previously to me is the least of his problems! He, like many other kids and now adults today, have a problem with being told NO, and not always winning! So because she said you couldn’t gang bang or whatever it was you shot her???? And when you lose in a sports game you gonna shoot them too???
Y’all have to excuse me, but this is becoming an epidemic. I go to professional school everyday with ADULTS who act like asses each and every time they lose or are told no! Grow a pair! Things can’t always go your way so your best bet is to learn how to deal with it and move on!
NICE TRY COUSIN, I’M CERTAIN THE FIANCE GAVE AN ACCOUNT AS TO WHO SHOT THE BOY’S MOTHER, HIM!!!!
THERE ARE SO MANY TROUBLED, POSSESSED SOULS, ON EARTH-STAY PRAYED UP SERIOUSLY AND EVEN PRAY FOR THOSE WHO ARE POSSESSED!!!
THIS IS TRULY A TRAGEDY-I DON’T CARE WHAT WAS GOING ON, THERE IS NO WAY ANYONE CAN RATIONALIZE HIS BEHAVIOR
HE WANTED TO BE A GANGSTA, WELL HE’LL THE GET THE PROPER TRAINING IN PRISON, THE MEMORY OF KILL HIS MOTHER WILL SURELY TORTURE HIM FOR THE REST OF HIS LIFE & THAT ALONE IS A DEATH SENTENCE
Somebody lying for that boy. And the step-daddy ain’t sht for jumping out a window. I wasn’t there but it sounds like a cowardly thing to do.
I read about this yesterday on The Huffintogn Post.
Some of the kids these days have no respect for their parents and no regard for human life. None!
For him to shoot his mama with a SHOTGUN 10 TIMES!!! No gun expert, but shotguns tae a lot of power, and he repeatedly put bullets into his mother. Even the gangbangers of gangbangers don’t kill they mama like that.
Until folks relaize that these a lot of these monsters are MADE and not born and stop excusing all this bull**** this crap will continue to happen! #endrant
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94.3% agree, monsters are created
Be mindful of what you allow in your minds, hearts, ears, and eyes (all 3)
The same as music, movies, games or whatever can put you in a “good mood” keep in mind they also can do the opposite…
Probably was too late to change him. Im interested in her habits with him when he was under 10…besides the whippings, I mean.
I bet he was playing them killer video games, and she let him do it for four days straight. Mental.
I have no words for this…
It was said that his 5 year old sister seen him shoot his mother
. I pray that God surrounds this family!
Now he can really hang with the “big boys”
JESUS IS LORD! that is ALL i got
RIP Mama
@YSO ikr? While he’s jumping through plate glass windows he could’ve at least tried to save the mother
@Yso What I read yesterday said that he and the 5yr old girl were alseep in the other room. He may have taken the little girl outside to protect her.
@Change right! And wtf is wrong with the cousin! That old saying, it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt, surely applies to her! SMH
“Smith added: “I know my cousin [isn't] a straight up killer. He [isn't a] monster.””
WalkingKontradiction says:
@Change right! And wtf is wrong with the cousin! That old saying, it’s better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open your mouth and remove all doubt, surely applies to her! SMH
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This here
I get slack some times for “over” thinking when I’m just trying to be mindful of my speech/words
I feel like I’m in a world by myself, surrounded by a bunch of walking re-actions
@MAMA
But if what I read in Sandra’s write is correct, the sister watched her mother get murdered and it doesn’t say anything about her being with him when he jumped. But, it also doesn’t say WHEN he got out so you may be right. I need more info.
I pray for our children
change says:
Until folks relaize that these a lot of these monsters are MADE and not born and stop excusing all this bull**** this crap will continue to happen! #endrant
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94.3% agree, monsters are created
Be mindful of what you allow in your minds, hearts, ears, and eyes (all 3)
The same as music, movies, games or whatever
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So true! This hoodbooger on FB got a two-year old and she thought it was so cute that he said “Oh my God Becky look at her butt Tunchei” Now it is okay for us adults to partake in the foolery of hip-hop, but a two year old needs to be singing church songs (if you are religious) and nursery rhymes.
I read about this story yesterday and they NEVER mentioned her using belt on him. They also said his sister and step dad was there and got away by climbing out a window.
@NOLA Exactly! 10 times?!?!?! This was done out of pure anger and hatred. No respect!
You shoot somebody 10 times at point blank range??? With a shot gun???
Your OWN sick mother at that???
I commented before I finished reading the story. Whoever the paper interviewed didn’t make mom sound so great. She’s beating his big azz on the regular and treating him like a manservant while her gun toting “fiance” lays around. I know Lupus is a dibilitating desease, but I’ve seen people lead active lives with it that don’t require them to be waited on hand and foot.
This boy is no gem by any stretch, but if what they are saying about mama is true, maybe the boy thought this was the only way out for him.
@ Change I understand where you are coming from because I am the same way. After seeing the way people carry on and just say WHATEVER WHENEVER, I never want to return to that frame of mind.
All anger aside though, I feel really bad for the 5yr old and it’s probably a good thing the fiancee did jump out the windwo because if that little boy was angry enough to put 10shots into his mother, he wouldn’t have hesitated to do the same to him. At least now the little girl has one parental figure.
Fukc them video games and the music
Yall should REALLY read BRAINWASHED by Tom Burrell
There will more more ish like this UNLESS We The People put a stop to it.
ION care if this offends anyone BTW
SAD!!! I feel for the little girl.
‘He just shot. Every chance he got a chance to shoot again, he shot again, and there’s just buckshot, holes everywhere.’
The bullets left holes in the windows. Robinson’s five-year-old daughter and her fiance, named in reports as Chiko Lewis, were also in the home at the time and were forced to jump out of a low window to escape the gunfire.
The little girl later asked relatives: ‘why would someone want to hurt mommy?’
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Zoe, I had a disagreement with my bff who swears it’s ok if it’s the “clean version”, I basically called her stupid for that comment…
Again, don’t care who’s offended
#aintmyfault
Shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit if I heard shots being fired the last thing I’m going to do is run TOWARDS the gun shots. I’m sorry. I don’t blame the fiance for getting out. If both parents get shot and killed who’s going to take care of the daughter who has now lost her mon AND dad?
Last comment… maybe this is better for little mama. Not LOSING her mama, which I cant imagine, but he dont sound like a peach of a brother IMO…
@Bird I think that was Sandra’s spin on things. As someone else pointed out I haven’t seen the belt insinuation anywhere but here.
As for lupus it all depends on which organs it is attacking and what state of health you are in. My grandmother whom I’ve never met died from it at 28, and my great-grandmother at 57 I believe. My great-grandmother was extremely debilitated by the disease as it attacked her kidneys(which is what it sounds like this woman was going through since she was on dialysis). It’s highly likely it was getting the best of her.
@bird..that was the dumbest comment ever!!!
THREE children have been shot in Detroit in the past month, two have died. Something needs to be done here.
@walkingKontradiction..
That is so true..one of my best friends sister died from it.. she too was very young
..she was very sick…So some people should really check facts before talking!
The uncle said he liked to hang with the big boys. Welp, he sho nuff will hang with the big boys now and they will hang with him.
yallcrazy says:
Fukc them video games and the music
Yall should REALLY read BRAINWASHED by Tom Burrell
There will more more ish like this UNLESS We The People put a stop to it.
ION care if this offends anyone BTW
Im not even going to get into what kind of video games in was playing
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@MAMA
I typed before knowing all details. It sounded as if the step-father left the little girl behind to witness her mother’s murder and that was totally not the case. Google is my friend.
Nature/Nurture at work here.
I understand that the mother was very ill. I am also not excusing the young child. Neither of us know or realize the pressure that this young man was under. I know a lot of mothers who cannot even pour themselves a glass of water and they turn their children into mini-slaves. And this young man was whipped and look how much good it did? Please stop the flogging of children so they can grow up to be mentally and socially functioning adults!
im so infuriated by this post. there are several things in this story that are just utterly ridiculous.
1. Her fiance JUMPED THROUGH THE WINDOW?! Someone PLEASE tell me that he at least took the baby??! im sorry but i feel like he should have tried to defend his wife. call me crazy but thats what i think.
2. If her son was too big for her to discipline, then why didnt the step-father step in?? once boys get a certain age/height/size they need a man to step to them.
3. Where was her NIGGA while she was runnin the little boy to help her??! this is the man you are gettin ready to marry, youre fckin (im assumin) and you cant ask his ass to help you?! smh
They need to try his ass as an adult smh. He IS a monster and he deserves to be treated like one!! ugh! im disguted!!
Im so thoroughly confused by this whole story….things that confused me
1. How did he break in the dads room if he was in there sleeping, If so why didnt he stop him…question him…kick his ass!
2. Didnt the step dad report it if he was there and jumped out the window
3. Is the step dad now in custody for having the weapon? Was it licensed
4. Is the cousin a crack head or just plain stupid
5. How does said cousin justify him having his mothers car after the incident
Maybe I need to go back and read again …either way this shyt is ridiculous…
lil Miss Candid
were >>>>>> HERE<<<<<<<<
@CANDID
That was Sandra’s write up. The step dad jumped out the window with the little girl. I don’t have any answers for the rest.
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@Yso It’s all good. We know how Sandra only posts half of the story sometimes!
Sighs ….I feel sorry for baby girl this is a sad and senseless series of unnecessary events
Mamacita says:
at some of these posts.
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@Yso It’s all good. We know how Sandra only posts half of the story sometimes!…. AND fabricates or embellishes on the rest
HOW YOU DOING MAMACITA.. You reckon Mom was a Bey fan, she has on House of Dereon in the picture above
RIP Tamiko
this chit is straight cray cray. i can’t with what the world is coming to. they need to evaluate that boy and see if his mind is right. 10 times?! i’m pretty sure she was dead after the first shot or two. ugh. i pray for that family and the little girl who witnessed it.
CHACHELLA!!
Next Sandra gone be in here telling us that reading is fundamental and sht.
some people are just the devil’s seeds…born pure evil
She sure does have on Dereon @Cha. RIP mama.
@Mamacita (Comment #63)
YEP YEP… And I REALLY Want to GO THERE (On THEM…) But I’ll just let it Slide and CONTINUE to ENJOY this Absolutely Beautiful DAY We’re having in The CHI (Right Now Instead…)
Ysilita
In hindsight I wonder if the mother or step dad notice any signs. Do people really just flash and do shyt like this. Was there a previous argument with his Mom
@ lovezoe and Kei_lyme: I’m wondering why the little sister said, “Why did somebody have to shoot my mother?” If she was a witness, why did she say “somebody”?
I DOUBT THE FIANCE STAYING BEHIND AND TRYING TO HELP WOULD HAVE EVEN HELPED, HE CAN’T BLOCK BULLETS & IF THAT NEGROE CRAZY ENOUGH TO SHOOT HIS OWN MAMA, THEN HE CERTAINLY WOULDN’T HAVE A PROBLEM SHOOTING HIM AND HIS LITTLE SISTER
WHO REALLY KNOWS HOW THEY MAY RESPOND TO A SITUATION LIKE THIS, ETIHER WAY THE FIANCE AND THE CHILD MADE IT OUT ALIVE
THERE IS A STRONG POSSIBILITY IF HE HADN’T JUMPED OUT THAT WINDOW, THEY ALL WOULD HAVE BEEN KILLED
This is am absoulute a tragic situation and I feel for everyone involved, but has anyone thought that this little boy shooting his mother like that was some sort of gang initiation(sp) for him? Since he wanted to gangbang and hang with the big boys? Perhaps the gang he may have wanted to be apart of wanted to see what he was made of…..
I know I done told the story on this blog…of how my aunt used to beat the purity SHAT out of my cousins…while bedridden with lupus. Used to call their azz to the sofa and be like “bend your azz down here” and molly whop them senseless. Lupus in some forms is very debilitating.
IN FACT…One of the regular SR commenters who suffers from it has been MIA due to lupus for WEEKS now. Shouts out to her right now.
GOOD DAY.
@naja- as much as I hate to agree, some people are naturally mean.
oops *an*
um, why does the step dad have a loaded 12-gauge in the house obviously accessible by the children?
i guess if he wanted to get her, he would have probably found another gun but that’s some serious shooting right there.
ELove says:
@Mamacita (Comment #63)
YEP YEP… And I REALLY Want to GO THERE (On THEM…) But I’ll just let it Slide and CONTINUE to ENJOY this Absolutely Beautiful DAY We’re having in The CHI (Right Now Instead…)
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Aint it great!!
@POOTIE TANG
Something to think about definitely…
Bird says:
She’s beating his big azz on the regular and treating him like a manservant while her gun toting “fiance” lays around.
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But that’s how some black women are. They take care of those broke, jobless men while beating their own kids like slaves.
Another Sad Story….. I pray that little girl grows up with a sense of peace and not live her life hating her brother
@KDub
IN FACT…One of the regular SR commenters who suffers from it has been MIA due to lupus for WEEKS now. Shouts out to her right now.
GOOD DAY.
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I’ve been SO concerned about her too…been trying to get in touch with her with no replies!
@ YSO
Thats how some gangs *jump* you in…you have to kill someone close to you to prove what you are made of….
That is just my .02
Sandra Rose says:
Bird says:
She’s beating his big azz on the regular and treating him like a manservant while her gun toting “fiance” lays around.
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But that’s how some black women are. They take care of those broke, jobless men while beating their own kids like slaves.
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I dont know what Black Women you are around but it sounds like you need to travel more and stop criticizing black women all of the time. Self hate is a sad thing
@JMO
I’ve been SO concerned about her too…been trying to get in touch with her with no replies!
ME TOO. I saw Good Times the other night and thought of her 
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Pootie- that thought came to mind. Was it an initation?
@Sandra
Would it kill you to say “some” black women,or “trifling low-lifed” women sometimes? I am a black woman and that behavior does not APPLY to me!
KDub says:
I know I done told the story on this blog…of how my aunt used to beat the purity SHAT out of my cousins…while bedridden with lupus. Used to call their azz to the sofa and be like “bend your azz down here” and molly whop them senseless. Lupus in some forms is very debilitating.
IN FACT…One of the regular SR commenters who suffers from it has been MIA due to lupus for WEEKS now. Shouts out to her right now.
GOOD DAY.
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Have u heard from her Kdub? I was wondering how she is doing
Sandra Rose says:
Bird says:
She’s beating his big azz on the regular and treating him like a manservant while her gun toting “fiance” lays around.
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But that’s how some black women are. They take care of those broke, jobless men while beating their own kids like slaves.
You must be trying to “clean up” the blog with this comment
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@GeminEyez (Comment #85)
YOUR Comment SOUNDS Like a Pretty-GOOD Assessment (To ME Though…)
lilmisscandid says:
Her fiance JUMPED THROUGH THE WINDOW?! Someone PLEASE tell me that he at least took the baby??
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They say he jumped through the window, but the news video showed an intact window. Was the window open when he jumped through it?
JMO says:
Sandra Rose says:
Bird says:
She’s beating his big azz on the regular and treating him like a manservant while her gun toting “fiance” lays around.
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But that’s how some black women are. They take care of those broke, jobless men while beating their own kids like slaves.
You must be trying to “clean up” the blog with this comment
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Yeah, it may be house cleaning time…spring is coming up soon…
but has anyone thought that this little boy shooting his mother like that was some sort of gang initiation(sp) for him? Since he wanted to gangbang and hang with the big boys
Well where Im from that has never been an option, consideration, an idea or a thought. Now if were talking that illuminati business maybe…but aint no gang bangers about to tell you to kill your mother to earn your stripes… perhaps on TV but in my experience
Now shooting at the the police and other people thats a whole nother story! Sad but a reality.
Disclaimer: I am not in a gang, I just been raise by them and with them and around them my whole life. I know a little bit about the mentality.
*change gravie please*
JMO says:
You must be trying to “clean up” the blog with this comment
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What do you mean, hun?
@lovezoe
I dont know, but without having the details sounds like that could be a possibility……I dont know too many boys/men that dispise they mama so much that they gotta kill them at point blank range…. chit dont make sense
Bird says:
She’s beating his big azz on the regular and treating him like a manservant while her gun toting “fiance” lays around.
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But that’s how some black women are. They take care of those broke, jobless men while beating their own kids like slaves.
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@FeFe
ACTUALLY She may “DIE A Little INSIDE” to make that Grand-Effort Though
@ KDub Disregard…just getting to u and FeFe other post
FeFe says:
@Sandra
Would it kill you to say “some” black women,or “trifling low-lifed” women sometimes? I am a black woman and that behavior does not APPLY to me!
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My bad. I typed it so quickly. I meant to say “some” black women.
@ELove
It’s just SO wrong…
@Sandra
CHA CHA says:
but has anyone thought that this little boy shooting his mother like that was some sort of gang initiation(sp) for him? Since he wanted to gangbang and hang with the big boys
Well where Im from that has never been an option, consideration, an idea or a thought. Now if were talking that illuminati business maybe…but aint no gang bangers about to tell you to kill your mother to earn your stripes… perhaps on TV but in my experience Now shooting at the the police and other people thats a whole nother story! Sad but a reality.
Disclaimer: I am not in a gang, I just been raise by them and with them and around them my whole life. I know a little bit about the mentality.
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Well CHA CHA some gangs around the United States are just that cold blooded enough to kill like that……
GeminEyez says:
I dont know what Black Women you are around but it sounds like you need to travel more and stop criticizing black women all of the time. Self hate is a sad thing
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You know I didn’t mean to say all black women. I’m black, my mom is black, and we don’t care of trifling men.
Sandra Rose says:
JMO says:
You must be trying to “clean up” the blog with this comment
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What do you mean, hun?
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@ JMO
She’s beating his big azz on the regular and treating him like a manservant while her gun toting “fiance” lays around.
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But that’s how some black women are. They take care of those broke, jobless men while beating their own kids like slaves.
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I dont know what Black Women you are around but it sounds like you need to travel more and stop criticizing black women all of the time. Self hate is a sad thing
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ELOVEaffair… Kiss me you fool
<– with these lips this time
WHERE DID MY PREVIOUS GO
Ms. Sandra (Comment #103)
KEEP UP the GOOD Work BABY !!! (You KNOW I LUV YOU Though…)
FIRST OF ALL,*erases my comment after seeing comment 108*while beating their own kids like slaves.
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SWEEEEETIE (In my Kim Z. voice)
Sorry that just ran through my mind…
HOTT Cha Cha
Heeeeyyy There MY LOVER (YOU…)
@Sandra this is not the time for you to berate black women…a mother, sister, aunt, counsin etc has lost her life so please save it
Give this lil bastard the chair and let him meet up his mother so she can continue to kick his azz for all eternity.
I also agree that monsters are made.
WTF is in the water up there in Detroit? Jeez?!
Wow, @Sandra.
On the one hand I think you read our comments…then on the other hand I think you have never read a thing any of the BLACK mothers on your blog write.
Way to support us like we support you.
I’m black, my mom is black, and we don’t care of trifling men.
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@Sassy
hey girl!
I think Detroit is just a wasteland at this point…a dried up land with no more milk and honey that it once had…that in turn is driving folks insane, including the children…
The dad is obviously in to some shyt if he concealing a damn 12 gauge.. the fluck is wrong with this cat. I bet he regrets that move!
As a mother with small children he would not have that in my house to begin with, if there is a need for a gun in the house it should in a safe, possibly locked box/place. There is so many places you can hide a weapon of that magnitude. Step dad was probably not doing his job because sounds like the nucklehead was already very hot headed and busy and Stepdad was careless.
Thanks for the clarification @Sandra. I said I was staying outta this post anyway. My bad.
@Sandra..I mean I have been on here a long time, I have watched you take your blog to a more personal means of attacking those you don’t like…and you just about never have anything good to say about anyone..everyone’s a narcissist( excuse my spelling) ..however, this is your blog..however..that black woman comment was totally out of line and ignorant…. How exactly do you know she was beating him to the context of what ur implying..and furthermore..how do you know what kind of man this was…also.. NOONE KNOWS EXACTLY WHAT THEY WOULD DO IN ANY GIVEN SITUATION.ESPECIALLY ONE THAT THREATENS YOUR LIFE..YOU JUST DON’T KNOW..I just felt this commment was so far left..but hey this is sandrarose.com. didn’t expect to see a negative comment about the same women you support you daily!
Sandra Rose says:
You know I didn’t mean to say all black women. I’m black, my mom is black, and we don’t care of trifling men.
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All women should be taught not to take care of trifling men at young ages. I didnt grow up around trifling men or enabling black women. I only knew healthy black marriages and relationships so that ocomment rubbed me the wrong way but I understand you meant “some”
At 14 years old, you do what your parents ask you to do. I don’t care if she had the entire Red Cross sitting in her living room. If she asks her son to do things from her, he should do it because she birthed him and took care of him. In addition, she was probably trying to keep him too busy to be in the streets.
Then this callous disrespecting little ninja is riding around his dead mom’s car?! That doesn’t seem like he’s all broken up about his mom.
The cousin is a moron. Who lets a kid sit around playing video games like that? My mom would let me play for an hour, maybe 2 if a friend was over. After that, she’d say y’all turn that mess off and do something else. It rots your brain and we were just playing Super Mario Bros. These games today are desensitizing children to violence.
then on the other hand I think you have never read a thing any of the BLACK mothers on your blog write.
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So she just skip over us and read what @Lakes say?
By the way..I am a black woman..and that comment does not apply to me nor my mother, nor my nine black aunt’s therefore…your statment is false!
<—Have never beat my kid like a slave
they get popped and we move on!
toosexy says:
..however, this is your blog..however..that black woman comment was totally out of line and ignorant…
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I have apologized for that comment and I have edited the comments to reflect what I intended to say. However, I repeated a statement that was made by a family member who said Ms. Robinson disciplined her son.
Hush KDub
You know Sandra get my font to feeling. 
If she was so sick that she had to ask her son to do everything for her, how was she able to continually beat him like SR said? Although what the family members said was ignorant…SR quoted the most ignorant parts. The news paper in Detroit did not say anything about the mother beating the child or being a “strict disciplinarian”.
Wow, this is a sad story.
I think Detroit is just a wasteland at this point…a dried up land with no more milk and honey that it once had…that in turn is driving folks insane, including the children…
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I got fam in 3 and a 3rd (313) and it is sad as HAIL there. No offense to native Detroiters up here or reading. I haven’t been up that way in going on 6 years but it was sad THEN so I can imagine now.
GeminEyez says:
that ocomment rubbed me the wrong way but I understand you meant “some”
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Thanks hun.
Yeah I’ve never heard killing your family members to be in a gang either. Where I’m from, they drive around at night with their lights off and if someone blink their lights at them to turn them on, they have to shoot at that car. That’s how they get “in” around here.
This is just crazy!! My brother & I are 7 years apart, & my mom depended on me a lot growing up & I hated it! I didn’t want to kill her, just vowed I would never make my kids go through the same!
@K-Dub
OR @AprilRain Though SMDH in ALL-OUT Laughter Though
@KDub
I’ve heard the same from other folks…I’ve never been and I have no family up there, but I remember back in like ’03 my friend went up there to visit some relatives and she said she couldn’t WAIT to get home!
kahmmillion says:
how was she able to continually beat him like SR said?
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She beat her son when he was young. Then he grew up to be taller and bigger than her. Did you read my post, hun?
You hush too @E.
Its cold in the D.
HI JERRICA Luv
anw_rootbeer says:
my mom depended on me a lot growing up & I hated it! I didn’t want to kill her
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The difference is he was an emotionally troubled young man who lacked coping skills, like you had.
The news paper in Detroit did not say anything about the mother beating the child or being a “strict disciplinarian”.
I was addicted to their coverage of the Kwame Kilpatrick saga. If there was something about the momma the Freep woulda found it. Maybe they ain’t got that far yet. 
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And the Detroit Free Press is a helleva paper
@Jerrica
There are ALL KINDS of INITIATIONS Though… I HAD TWO Young Female cousins whose initiations involved going on a Drive-By and THEY had to pull The Trigger (Commit The Crime…) on a RIVAL Gang-member they wanted Dead (Real-SHYT) They were BOTH 14 when they DID THIS Too #YUP
I had to quit hs to take care of my grandmother. I resented it at the time but not enough to want to shoot her ten times at point blank range.
My brother & I are 7 years apart, & my mom depended on me a lot growing up & I hated it!
So do you think it helped you as a person? It was just the two of you? Two kids, I mean.
Had too? Or chose to? @SIS.
I gather no one else was responsible/willing enough?
lawd when someone blinks their lights at me i be so scared
except when the dude behind me on 95N was blinking them bc he wanted me to move over…i did what anyone would do…slowed down
@OTB —-> Heeyyy BABY !!!
Sassy, you package arrived!
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Auntie, you should be asking yourself how that comment flew off your fingertips. Everybody in here has your back & (I don’t know if it’s for shock value or what) you constantly stay on the same page.
For this, you owe us qty. 12 positive President Obama posts
Its cold in the D.
I am a southern belle! Detroit and Pittsburgh coldest my azz ever been IN LIFE.
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And when did we go? The dead of fuggin winter. Jan. A frozen tundra. Chile….that wind come off of Lake St. Clair on your azz….
i did what anyone would do…slowed down
Girl you tryna to get shot/road raged. Just get in the other lane little sis.
Imma miss you if somebody tap that little smart car with they bumper. 
LOL
candibfly says:
lawd when someone blinks their lights at me i be so scared
except when the dude behind me on 95N was blinking them bc he wanted me to move over…i did what anyone would do…slowed down
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I remember when I went to a Mike Tyson fight in Detroit yrs ago (also the very 1st Laila Ali fight) and that city was in ruins back then. So I can just imagine what it looks like now… I was thinking about purchasing a house on the lake there though, the property is CHEAP!
Hey Cha!
Elove
Oh I know, I’M saying I never heard of someone killing family to join a gang. Never did I say it couldn’t happen.
i woulda made Snoopy jump in front of the bullet
Oh my damn!
Hubby is from the D. We been together 7 years, hasn’t been in at least 10 years.
candibfly says:
lawd when someone blinks their lights at me i be so scared
except when the dude behind me on 95N was blinking them bc he wanted me to move over…i did what anyone would do…slowed down
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I do that … Then, when they get over, I speed up so they have no choice but to get back behind me
I always go the speed limit though
@ Jerrica…..So the flashin’ the light thing is true huh?
That’s exactly why when I see a car with no lights on I let them mo fo’s ride right on by, I dont care who’s behind the wheel!
@sandra…then I apologize! I’m glad you cleared that up..I’ve been with you a very long time!
@ Yall don’t you need my mailing info so MY package can arrive?
jmo i don’t normally engage in those types of maneuvers (why i had to look up how to spell this word?) but he pist me off that day bc i wasn’t even going slow. hmmph
sooooo should i buy this deep fryer with oil filtration system on HSN? i really am not good at making decisions on buying stuff
You get a ticket for flashing folks in Florida. I just feel bad for folks and let them drive on by.
I do get mad when folks flash me though.
I flash them to let them know those are not my brights boo, but THESE ARE! 
i do make sure its not the popo tho.
Once and done. Ticket for that chit. Fukka set me up.
@JMO I seen in another post that you were asking for bachelorette party ideas…what do you have so far?
@SIS
I was already doing so much and no one else had the time or desire. It was me or nobody.
Sandra… “we” get any loyal reader emails yet about how “we” suck as a community? Can you post it if “we” indeed have mail? I feel like cussin…
Henny Blaque
Where I’m from they do that or they’ll shot up a club or just some random person. Just last week it was about 5 or 6 shootings.
ion flash nobody. eventually they will realize their lights aren’t on or the police will stop them
i mean they must can see good since they haven’t realized they’re off 
Which one is it @Candi? The Emeril?
@candi
NAW Fly-Gurl 
Snoopy AIN’T Taking THAT Bullet BABY 
The SAME Snoopy that doesn’t get THE Cushy Martha Stewart BED Though
yes OTB, it has good reviews and u can do flex pay.
but i’m thinking is it gonna end up sitting on top of the fridge like that food processor i bought
Man I don’t feel like going to work!!!!
I just want to go back to sleep! (had to rant)
@elove
i told u once that dog bed go on sale (under $35) then i will buy it. shyt been holding steady at like $49.99
candibfly says:
i woulda made Snoopy jump in front of the bullet
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:smdh:
NO, no you can not buy it! *speaks through clinched teeth* getchoazz offa that site yo
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Hershey, me and Sass worked something out, whatchew got? Huh? Huh?
but i want to fry some chicken for the first time
i ain’t doing it in no pan yo
Petco had the hundred dollar bed for $25
Target has the regular sized beds for less than $20
BUT
stay outta the store 
#talmboutsomeflexpay 
Prynn, not much. Cali suggested we rent a hotel suite, bring in food, give out gift bags, possibly hire a dance instructor etc.
My friend suggested that we could go to vegas and celebrate with the groom and his grooms men (sp?) and have 1 big celebration. Of course we wouldnt always stick together though. Women do their own thing and the men do theirs and meet up later etc.
Any ideas?? The party will be in July
Right @Sis I figured as much. I remembered some font about your fam from before.
Saying it again, God is in you whether you acknowledge or not.
Dont tase me Sis. 
its this one particular bed at Petsmart that I had Snoopy try at the store and he wouldn’t get out of it
until they lower the price he can keep sleeping under the bed
*whispers* OTB, that’s what I was gonna tell her but I didn’t wanna say it. HE gave her the strength back then and now.
Try Petco
@Yall
It did! Yay! Cant WAIT to check my mail when I get home! I’ma link you to the site for the chips I was talking about. Finna change your life with some UTZ!
Alright time to go make the donuts
Jerrica says:
Yeah I’ve never heard killing your family members to be in a gang either. Where I’m from, they drive around at night with their lights off and if someone blink their lights at them to turn them on, they have to shoot at that car. That’s how they get “in” around here.
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You never know what folks will do to get/have/be/feel accepted if they want it bad enough.
Yall keep talking about what they dont do around yall hood, but are failing to realize that there are plenty more hoods way worse than where you may be from…….
@candi
Have you ever tried oven fried chicken?…it’s delicious and more healthy and NO grease is involved…you just melt a half stick of butter in a pan, batter the chicken and cook it in the over on the flat side for about 45 mins and then flip it and cook for another 20 mins…this definitely takes longer than frying it on the stove top, but it is worth it…
@Shaun
Did you ever check out the portfolio of that Boudoir photog I sent you?
yeah i make panko crusted chicken tenders in the oven. but i wanna fry something once. i guess i just like to buy stuff. i have a disease
Reasons why I stay my azz out the hood.
I’m prejudiced and stereotypical like a muhfugga. Call me Aunt Ruckus.
And Detroit just needs to be bombed away and start the fukk over. That place is way too wild now. Aint nothing there good to be saved. Move those motor plants, nuke that sh*t and get a fresh start…. SMH.
Pootie Tang
If you would’ve read my other comment you would have seen I said Where I’m from! I didn’t say it doesn’t happen.
@SIS
Me? Tease you? Neva.
(plucks your nose)
@CANDI
You need a skillet. A cast iron skillet. To get all the struggle and disappoint into your fried food. Don’t forget to hum “Wade in the Water” while you’re cooking it.
@JMO
Dance instructor meaning – pole dancing? Those are ALWAYS fun. I don’t really have any ideas. Just the hood, make’em feel like they done had a real party idea(s).
yso i’m scared to use the stove to fry stuff. i feel like my arms would be all burnt up
plus iono how to clean cast iron. i always use the oven. dude be so mad at me talkin bout why u always baking shyt. fry something! 
Damn. You said tase not tease. I need a nap!
UTZ
I remember those chits
@Sass
What you know about “UTZ”? They have this party mix at Sam’s…..
*faints in a container of rye bread toast and sesame chips*
@Prynsexx
I know plenty since the UTZ plant is born, bred abd distributed in MD. Can’t get UTZ anywhere outside of the mid-atlantic east cost. Just like Domino’s sugar….. part of the downtown Bmore skyline.
prynsexxx says:
@JMO
Dance instructor meaning – pole dancing? Those are ALWAYS fun. I don’t really have any ideas. Just the hood, make’em feel like they done had a real party idea(s).
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Yes pole dancing or something similar. I asked her if she wanted the classic “stripper” and she said not really but doesn’t really care. Good! I don’t get all the hoopla about strippers.
but keep in mind, some of the bridal party include a few “shakeenahs” (Tiny’s friend) so one of them has told me “OH I KNOW WE GETTIN STRIPPAS!”
they used to always send us these chips from ohio. lawd! i forgot what they were called but they are in a white bag with red lettering
@ Yall
ok…I keep eating my salt and pepper popkern and my cracker jacks 
*I though she really liked me, I really did*
pulls snuggi over head to cry silently
@Candi … I’m the same way. Groupon and KGBdeals has me buying chit just because. I just bought a shower head that changes color
When the water is hot, the shower head is red and the water looks red. When the water is cool, the shower head is blue and the water looks blue
@JMO
I don’t get into male “skrippers” either. They all seem so
to me.
@Sass
Yep UTZ is what’s hot in these streets.
@Candi
What “flavor” were the chips from Ohio?
white bag with red lettering? 
Who remembers those crazy calypso chips that came in a dark pink bag? Was that just a Chicago thing??
Those were good!!
pryn regular flavor, i think they are called gold n krisp
I remember “Jays” Salt and Vinegar (green shiny P Diddy suit type of bag) and they had some hot ones (red shiny bag) from Chicago that are DA BOMB dot com!
candi – never heard of’em
We do have these hometown favorites called “Grippos”….
OutsidetheBox says:
then on the other hand I think you have never read a thing any of the BLACK mothers on your blog write.
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Not true. Just because I don’t comment on it doesn’t mean I’m not reading what you have to say. I applaud all the moms on my blog for doing a great job raising their boys to be men.
@JMO
I don’t remember Crazy Calypso. I remember Jay’s and Vitner’s though.
yallcrazy says:
For this, you owe us qty. 12 positive President Obama posts
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And you will get those 12 positive posts as soon as Mr. Obama is voted out of the White House.
Thanks hun @ toosexy
KDub says:
Sandra… “we” get any loyal reader emails yet about how “we” suck as a community?
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Not lately. “we” are doing a great job.
Good morning!!
This is just heartbreaking.
I noticed someone mentioned the flashing of the headlights.
Fine time for ya’ll to mention it
CandiB if you put Snoopy in front of that bullet
I’mma call you later and tell him what yo plans are
candibfly says:
pryn regular flavor, i think they are called gold n krisp
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I thought you were talking about Ballreich’s. When my husband’s family visits from Cali, they make sure they stock up on those for home.
Bird says:
I commented before I finished reading the story. Whoever the paper interviewed didn’t make mom sound so great. She’s beating his big azz on the regular and treating him like a manservant while her gun toting “fiance” lays around. I know Lupus is a dibilitating desease, but I’ve seen people lead active lives with it that don’t require them to be waited on hand and foot.
This boy is no gem by any stretch, but if what they are saying about mama is true, maybe the boy thought this was the only way out for him.
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This by any means does not justify this heinous crime, They need try him as adult
Throw the book at him a throw away the key
wow, sad
I know everyone has left this post but @yall I actually jusr ordered Brainwashed by Tom Burrell a few days ago and can’t wait to read it!
God break the yoke!
This is so sad and his family members are making excuses for him. I couldn’t believe they were on the news taking up for him last night. The problem with children right now are the excuses adults make for them. I see it every single day because of my profession. Unfortunately, this young man was lost to the streets and his mother was only trying to save him. I do not believe her method of discipline led him down this path. My parents were strict disciplinarians and I thank them for it now.
that is AWFUL, but DAMN 13 and 6’2??????? something wasn’t right with that boy from the start, maybe a hormonal imbalance? but whatever the case it’s a cryin shame he felt the need to KILL his sick mother