Update on 15-year-old shooting victim

The paper I questioned hours ago for printing that a 15-year-old shooting victim had prior "brushes with the law" has changed its Web site report.

Kudos to them for fixing this promptly. To malign a child victim with vague allusions from the police department to his private juvenile record is unacceptable for the reasons I articulated below.

The boy may very well have a serious past that will come out later via friends, family, etc. That, however, is different from a criminal justice organization immediately describing a child murder victim as having a "criminal history."