A 14-year-old boy is facing nearly a dozen new charges in Cuyahoga County Juvenile Court in a case involving a stolen KIA and police shooting.
The teen was shot by Cleveland police overnight Saturday when police say he tried to run down officers in a stolen KIA Sportage.
“All these different meetings to see what the problem is you know what the problem is and if they don’t there’s going to be a lot of parents that are going to be burying their children,” Annamaria Cora said.
Cora says she knows the teen and says it’s high time parents are also held responsible.
Crime scene tape dangles near Cora’s front porch on East 146th Street.
She says she is leaving it there.
“As a remembrance, maybe the kids walking back and forth to school they’ll see it,” Cora said.
Cora remembers the 14-year-old who was shot by police as kind and respectful.
“He’s been over here pulling weeds and helping me in the yard,” Cora said.
She says her heart hurts now.
The teen was in the driveway of a vacant house across the street, where Cora says he used to live, sleeping in a stolen KIA Sportage when cops found him.