The original news reported these were children-----
Nothing of the sort. 
Extremely loud young adult ruffians who routinely annoy this family with a 1year old child late at night-
On this night they taunted the father relentlessly, and he had been drinking- 
Baby and Mom now fatherless and homeless after being evicted. Nice job 'CHILDREN...'
Of course this doesn't excuse any use of firearms- that's not my point- the point is that there is always more to the story, and appropriate police actions and appropriate reporting would do a great service to this community... This is but one of dozens of local episodes of this sort.