Detroit-area Father ‘Executes’ Son By: Lyric Dysin

Picture this: It’s 2.pm on a sunny afternoon. You are sitting comfortably in a lounge chair on your porch, enjoying the peacefulness of the moment, as you watch the neighboring kids play in the streets. Everything appears perfect until, out of the corner of an eye, you see a neighbor pull his 15-year old son out onto his lawn and order him to strip naked, with a gun to the back of his head. The boy is screaming for help and begging for his life, and you are paralyzed with fear. Your head moves but an inch and catches a view of the little children who are also at a loss of words, as they stare at the father and son. You hear the naked child begging for his life, before the gun goes off. What do you do? What do you feel, as the little children scream and cry from the madness they just witnessed. You see the father leave his son on the ground bleeding to death, as he casually walks to his car that was parked nearby. The father drives away, as you and the little children watch the boy dying. Who do you do? How do you feel?

This terrifying image happens to be a reality to several people who witnessed a Detroit-area father, Jamar Pickney, execute his son in broad daylight in Highland Park Michigan, a small community that is adjacent to Detroit. The disturbing incident occurred early this week, shortly before Jamar was arrested. After gathering statements from neighboring witnesses, cops released their suspicions that targeted Mr. Pickney as the accused, who had allegedly drove to the home of Jamar Pickney Jr’s aunt and pulled Jamar Jr. out of the house, while ordering him to strip nude. According to a few witnesses’ statements, Jamar, 37, then took his son, Jamar Jr., to a nearby vacant lot and began yelling, “Lie down! Lie the f--- down!” The boy was said to have been begging for his life during the entire ordeal. But when he refused to lie down, his words were quickly silenced by a gunshot to the head. According to witness statements, the father then casually drove away from the scene.

Jamar Jr. later died at the hospital. Since then his father was taken into custody and talk has begun to fly around the Michigan area. It is so rumored that Jamar Jr.’s father reacted so irrationally because he had just been made aware that his son, 15 year-old Jamar Jr, had sexually assaulted his 4 year old sister. Now that statement has yet to be confirmed or acknowledge by the Pickney family, who is indeed suffering from their shocking loss. Whether it is simply talk or a bone-chilling truth, I pray that God be with that family.