By Micheal Chukwuebuka, Reporting
A 10-year-old California boy was shot dead over the weekend by another 10-year-old who angrily opened fire after losing a bicycle race.
The victim’s mother, Brittani Frierson, on Tuesday, Jan. 2, 2024, said the shooter was being a sore loser after the informal race on Saturday afternoon in Foothill Farms, a community about 16 miles northeast of Sacramento.
Stonix News learnt that Frierson gave her son, Keith “KJ” Frierson, permission to ride his bicycle, which he had begged for for Christmas before the attack.
Less than 15 minutes later, she ran outside after neighbors began banging on her door and shouting that something had happened to her son.
“I screamed for hours after I saw my child on that ground, because I could just see that he had no chance; I just knew that my child was gone,” she said.
Frierson further revealed that a neighbor’s child told her that the shooter angrily walked off after he lost the race and returned with a gun.
After he came back, he shot KJ in the neck without saying a word.
The suspect, a juvenile whose names withheld, has been booked on suspicion of murder.
His father, Arkete Davis, 53, according to inmate records, was also booked on suspicion of possession of a firearm by a felon, criminal storage of a firearm, carrying a stolen loaded firearm in a vehicle, child endangerment and acting as an accessory to a crime after the fact.
According to Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, investigators believe Davis tried to dispose of the gun in a trash can after the attack.
“For you to be so careless, to have something like that, a gun, easily accessible to your 10-year-old child, it just says a lot about you,” Frierson said, alleging that the suspect’s father was careless with a firearm.
Davis is scheduled to appear in court later today, Wednesday Jan. 3, 2024.
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