Age makes no difference; court needs to be tough on alleged Jungle shooters

KIRO Radio’s Dori Monson says the fact that such young kids were allegedly responsible in something as serious as the double-homicide at The Jungle is undoubtedly troubling.

“I don’t even know what to say about children that young getting that incredibly lost,” he said.

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However, it’s also not unprecedented.

Dori likened the situation to when Seattle street musician Edward McMichal, known as “Tuba Man,” was attacked and killed by a trio of kids at a Lower Queen Anne bus stop in 2008. The teenagers were all later convicted of other gun crimes later in life, with one sentenced to prison last year for a different murder.

“We can’t put them back on the street because we saw it with Tuba Man,” he said. “We gave them a slap on the wrist, they went back out, one of them killed again.

“You just wonder if these are salvageable lives,” he added. “Any of them.”