by Jack
In the category of, you just can’t make this stuff up:
Quasheda Pierce took a bullet to her leg just as she was saying a tearful last good-bye to her son Sincere Pierce age 18. Ironically Sincere Pierce was shot by deputies during a felony stop on a stolen car. His casket had just been lowered into his grave at a Florida cemetery when the single shot rang out. Witnesses would later say it the shot came from close by. So close it seemed like it came from right behind Quasheda!
As it would later be determined the shot did come from behind the grieving mother. It was fired accidentally by – a 16-year old friend. Really bad timing on the friend’s part.
Quasheda Pierce said, “I really don’t know what happened. I was out. I heard a gunshot and felt burning in my leg. The last thing I remember is I turned to my mom and said, ‘I’ve been shot.'”
The shooting Saturday was at the Riverview Memorial Gardens Cemetery in Cocoa, Florida, also left a teenage friend of her son with a leg wound. The deceased, Sincere Pierce, was shot and killed in November by a Brevard County Sheriff’s deputy when deputies attempted to stop a stolen vehicle. The driver of the car attempted to run over a deputy and was killed by gunfire along with his passenger Sincere Pierce.
Deputy Tod Goodyear, a spokesperson for the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office, said preliminary evidence and statements from witnesses indicate that the 16-year-old wounded in the incident was responsible for the single shot that wounded him and Quasheda Pierce. Goodyear said, “The round penetrated and exited his leg prior to impacting Quasheda Pierce’s leg.”
There seems to be a number of questions not covered in the original story. The first one that comes to my mind is, why was a 16-year-old carrying a loaded weapon at his friend’s funeral? Second, was the weapon recovered? Was it stolen? What charges are being considered against the shooter?
The family was represented by an activist attorney, Benjamin Crump, for a potential lawsuit against the Brevard County Sheriff’s Dept. It is unknown if Crump will try to sue the 16-year old’s parents, but probably not.