CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- A South Side mother recognized her son in a video on the news showing a group of kids causing trouble at a building for seniors; and she said she didn't hesitate to take action.
The 10-year-old boy's face was obscured in the video that aired on CBS 2, but Kiara Cunningham did not need to see his face to know it was him.
“That’s my son. My son is on the news,” she told CBS 2, “and I replayed it again to make sure that I was seeing what I was seeing.
“I know my child. I know his body and the way he walks from anywhere.”
She walked him right back into the building to teach him a lesson, after her son and other kids snuck in, scared residents, and ran off with a fire extinguisher. The boy, 10-year-old Ja’Shawn Watson, apologized to the property manager.
“I’m sorry for coming into y’all place, and taking stuff,” Ja’Shawn told property manager Arletha Patterson Smith.
“OK, and I accept – humbly accept your apology,” Patterson Smith said.
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It was a move that Cunningham said she didn’t hesitate to make her son do.
“I told him: ‘You’re going to go in there and apologize, because you guys terrified those people. That could have been your grandmother; that could have been me in there, you know?’” Cunningham said, “and I said, ‘That’s something you don’t do.’”
Ja’Shawn is going to be raking leaves at the senior building in the West Pullman neighborhood to make up for his actions.