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Shots were fired Sunday afternoon at a parked vehicle in Menlo Park occupied by two children, ages 4 and 5, and their mother.
No one was injured, police said.
The vehicle was parked in the 1300 block of Madera Avenue in Belle Haven.
Officers were called at about 2 p.m., and determined that two shots were fired from a black or dark green colored sedan, possibly a Honda, that drove by the parked vehicle.
Witnesses said the car was driving eastbound on the 1300 block of Madera Avenue and was last seen turning southbound onto Hamilton Avenue.
Police asks anyone with information on the shooting to contact the department at (650) 330-6300.
2 young juveniles……is that as opposed to old juveniles? Glad nobody was hurt. It will be good when they find out who did it, to see if it was random or targeted.
I’m wondering why the Almanac is describing them as “juveniles” as opposed to “children” or “teens”- it strikes me as a really loaded term. I’ve been thinking about it all day, and I am troubled by it. I cannot help but wonder what the Almanac is trying to signal by using the term “juvenile” which in most uses these days is followed by either “offender” or “delinquent”- is the Almanac suggesting that the people in the car somehow provoked the shooting? Is the Almanac trying to suggest to the reader that the people in the car were people of color? I’m trying to figure out why the Almanac chose to describe the passengers in the car in that manner.
Juvenile sounds like a police term to me. Vs toddler, preschooler, student, teen — the words the rest of us would use. I assume they are called “young juveniles” to negate any speculation that they are old enough to be gang members, since many gang members are minor teens.
We do seem to see this police-speak in these kinds of incidents. Usually, when there’s an accident in Belle Haven, for example, they just provide the ages and sexes of the people involved without any code words just as “juvenile.”