Wow, very sorry to hear that. What happens to them next?
Youth crime is a very big problem. We were told by a resident a few streets away that gangs from a distant suburb transported groups of kids to our suburb (maybe others) to break into houses and cars. The resident heard a couple moving around outside her house in the early hours and rang the police. The police got there quite quickly and the kids ran up the street and hopped into a waiting car. Not sure if they were caught but one was found hiding in a garage nearby; the owner had locked him in.
There was a car chase the other day - 2 stolen cars, a BMW and an SUV. The SUV crashed but the Beamer got away. Kids in the car were early teens, at least one was 13.
Kids are taken in, charged, released, and are straight out doing it again. I read that one kid had been caught over 50 times.
Many kids didn't go back to school after the covid lockdowns; others lost momentum of the regular school routine and gave up. Schools are not relevant to so many, especially boys. They don't know what their role in life is and find a sort of security hanging out with other kids up to no good.
Sorry to use your tragedy as a springboard for a rant. Condolences to your family, hope they are coping.
By all means use it to highlight the joke of a system that deals with these serial recidivists.
The family finally feels like some justice has been served but it will happen again to another family and that will always just bring up the tragedy again and again for anyone else who is the victim of these types of turds.