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If anyone of us did this, do you think we would see the light of day ever again or get off with a slap on the wrist?
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/400739p-339441c.html
Bully-mad dad aims
gun at boy, 10
BY ERIN EINHORN and ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Antione Hodges, 10, standing by his house in Queens, was threatened at gunpoint by the father of a school mate.
Jamming the barrel of a handgun into a fifth-grader's belly, an enraged Queens parent threatened to shoot the boy in his school playground yesterday - all because he had punched the man's son - the boy and witnesses said.
"I started to cry. I was thinking he was going to shoot me," the terrified student, Antoine Hodges, 10, told the Daily News.
Antoine said he was walking through the schoolyard of Public School 50 in Jamaica at about 8:15 a.m. when Carlos Ugarte, a federal immigration officer, ran up and grabbed him by the collar.
"Were you messing with my son?" Ugarte asked Antoine, according to the boy.
"Yeah," Antoine responded.
His one-word response allegedly prompted Ugarte - a criminal investigator with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - to brandish his weapon and press it against the boy's stomach, Antoine said.
When Antoine started to cry, Ugarte barked, "Don't cry now. Don't cry now," the boy said.
Stunned students and their horrified parents gathered around Antoine and Ugarte. When several people began screaming, Ugarte bolted, witnesses said.
Some parents, seeing the gun but not knowing what was happening, believed Antoine was being kidnapped, said Jason Croome, who witnessed the bizarre scene while dropping off his 7-year-old daughter.
Alerted by school officials and parents, cops began searching for Ugarte and he soon turned himself in at the 103rd Precinct stationhouse. He was only charged with menacing, a misdemeanor, police said.
It wasn't immediately known if the gun was loaded.
Federal authorities put Ugarte on administrative duty and stripped him of his gun and badge pending an investigation, an ICE spokesman said.
Antoine told The News that he had tattled on Ugarte's son, Carlos Jr., when he spoke out of turn in class on Thursday.
When the boys were standing in line at dismissal later in the day, Carlos shoved Antoine and then Antoine slugged him, Antoine said.
An assistant principal pulled the boys apart and said the squabble would be dealt with the next day.
But Ugarte apparently wasn't willing to wait for school officials to settle the dispute. After confronting Antoine outside the school yesterday, Ugarte made him and his son shake hands and agree not to fight, police sources said.
Ugarte, an Army reservist who served in Iraq, then pulled his weapon and warned: "I'll arrest you if you mess with my kid again," police sources said.
Antoine's parents, Denise and Detrich Odom, were furious yesterday.
"I'm shocked. I don't understand how some tit-for-tat between the boys could turn into something like this," said Denise Odom, 36.
Antoine's parents said he told them he never wanted to go back to school, but they have convinced him he'll be okay.
"I should be safe in my environment from lunatics like this," the boy said.
With Oren Yaniv
http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/400739p-339441c.html
Bully-mad dad aims
gun at boy, 10
BY ERIN EINHORN and ALISON GENDAR
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITERS
Antione Hodges, 10, standing by his house in Queens, was threatened at gunpoint by the father of a school mate.
Jamming the barrel of a handgun into a fifth-grader's belly, an enraged Queens parent threatened to shoot the boy in his school playground yesterday - all because he had punched the man's son - the boy and witnesses said.
"I started to cry. I was thinking he was going to shoot me," the terrified student, Antoine Hodges, 10, told the Daily News.
Antoine said he was walking through the schoolyard of Public School 50 in Jamaica at about 8:15 a.m. when Carlos Ugarte, a federal immigration officer, ran up and grabbed him by the collar.
"Were you messing with my son?" Ugarte asked Antoine, according to the boy.
"Yeah," Antoine responded.
His one-word response allegedly prompted Ugarte - a criminal investigator with the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement - to brandish his weapon and press it against the boy's stomach, Antoine said.
When Antoine started to cry, Ugarte barked, "Don't cry now. Don't cry now," the boy said.
Stunned students and their horrified parents gathered around Antoine and Ugarte. When several people began screaming, Ugarte bolted, witnesses said.
Some parents, seeing the gun but not knowing what was happening, believed Antoine was being kidnapped, said Jason Croome, who witnessed the bizarre scene while dropping off his 7-year-old daughter.
Alerted by school officials and parents, cops began searching for Ugarte and he soon turned himself in at the 103rd Precinct stationhouse. He was only charged with menacing, a misdemeanor, police said.
It wasn't immediately known if the gun was loaded.
Federal authorities put Ugarte on administrative duty and stripped him of his gun and badge pending an investigation, an ICE spokesman said.
Antoine told The News that he had tattled on Ugarte's son, Carlos Jr., when he spoke out of turn in class on Thursday.
When the boys were standing in line at dismissal later in the day, Carlos shoved Antoine and then Antoine slugged him, Antoine said.
An assistant principal pulled the boys apart and said the squabble would be dealt with the next day.
But Ugarte apparently wasn't willing to wait for school officials to settle the dispute. After confronting Antoine outside the school yesterday, Ugarte made him and his son shake hands and agree not to fight, police sources said.
Ugarte, an Army reservist who served in Iraq, then pulled his weapon and warned: "I'll arrest you if you mess with my kid again," police sources said.
Antoine's parents, Denise and Detrich Odom, were furious yesterday.
"I'm shocked. I don't understand how some tit-for-tat between the boys could turn into something like this," said Denise Odom, 36.
Antoine's parents said he told them he never wanted to go back to school, but they have convinced him he'll be okay.
"I should be safe in my environment from lunatics like this," the boy said.
With Oren Yaniv
