Shaniqua Davis

When Shaniqua Davis' 6-year-old son Tariq was shot by a 3-year-old girl, there were adults in the home with the children.

After the shooting, that changed quickly.

Police said an unknown number of adults inside the home fled after the shooting, though not a 32-year-old man who lived at the address. He was arrested on charges of being a felon in possession of a firearm and storing a loaded firearm within reach of a child, Schwartz said. He has prior cocaine and battery convictions, according to online court records.

Neighbors and family said Shaniqua Davis moved into the home with her kids three or four months ago. Family members were not familiar with the man who was arrested but believed him to be "the man of the house," said Sabrina Davis, Shaniqua Davis' sister.

So Davis decided to take her children and move in with a convicted felon.

That serious lapse in judgment is bad enough. But what's worse was that Davis decided to go out for a stroll, leaving her son and the children she was babysitting unattended.

As soon as the shot was heard and her little boy was wounded and crying in pain, an "unknown number of adults inside the home fled."

Some questions:

Does Davis know the names of the adults that were inside her home and fled when her son was bleeding, critically wounded?

If so, will she tell the police their names?

Are the "fleeing adults" involved in some illicit activities?

Are they also convicted felons?

Does Davis abide by the No Snitchin' rule?

No matter what the answers to those questions are, Davis should move out of that house for the sake of her children.

She should have no further contact with any of the thugs that were present at the time of the shooting, including and especially the 32-year-old "man of the house."

Davis should grow up and act like a responsible parent.

I hope Davis has learned from this. I hope the shock of her little boy being shot will cause her to reexamine how she's living her life and how she's raising her children.

Thank God Tariq Davis survived the shooting. Davis has been given a second chance to be the sort of mother that her children deserve -- a responsible one.

I hope this serves as a wake up call for her.

This horrible shooting was a wake up call of sorts for me.

When I heard about it, I was absolutely sickened by the details of the incident and prayed for the people involved, the innocent and the guilty.

This sort of thing should be shocking, but that wasn't my reaction.

I wasn't shocked.

Disgusted and horrified and heartbroken for the children? Yes.

Shocked? No.

I guess I've come to expect cases of this sort of lawlessness and extreme dysfunction and violence and complete lack of personal responsibility by some in Milwaukee.

It bothers me that I no longer respond to something as terrible as this with shock.