GOOD BOY: 4-YEAR-OLD OBEYED HIS FATHER ..... HE SHOT AT COPS WITH THE GUN DAD HANDED HIM

Utah takes custody of 4-year-old whose father told him to shoot at cops: police 

 

By Joshua Rhett Miller

 

New York Post

February 22, 2022

 

Sadaat Shamille Johnson became enraged over an incorrect order and allegedly handed a gun to his young son and instructed him to shoot at responding officers. An officer pushed the gun away after the 4-year-old boy opened fire

 

A 4-year-old boy whose father allegedly told him to shoot at cops in McDonald’s drive-thru was taken into child protective custody, police said Tuesday.

The boy and his 3-year-old sister are now in state custody following the wild incident at the fast-food chain in Midvale, the Unified Police Department of Greater Salt Lake told The Post.

The children had been in the car when their father Sadaat Shamille Johnson, 27, became enraged over an incorrect order and pulled a gun, police said.

Johnson then allegedly instructed his son to shoot at police officers as he was being taken into custody by responding cops after McDonald’s workers called 911, Sgt. Melody Cutler said.

“I’ve been in law enforcement for 27 years and I’ve never seen anything like this,” Cutler said early Tuesday. “That a 4-year-old even knows how to utilize a firearm and point it at an officer and pull the trigger is incredibly disturbing.”

Johnson’s son, who was in the backseat at the time, fired the gun, but an officer managed to deflect the weapon as it went off — with the round getting lodged in an awning, police said.

State social workers took custody of both youngsters from the scene, Cutler said.

Johnson, who is originally from Georgia, remained held without bond Tuesday at a Salt Lake County jail on felony child abuse and misdemeanor threat or use of a dangerous weapon charges, online records show. It’s unclear if he’s hired an attorney who could comment on his behalf.

The officer who pushed the gun away when Johnson’s son opened fire was burned on the arm, Cutler said. A witness relayed to police that Johnson told his son to “shoot at the police,” department officials said in a statement Monday.

Utah child welfare workers had no prior contact with Johnson’s family before Monday’s incident. The man, whose Facebook profile indicates he’s engaged, recently moved to Salt Lake City from Atlanta.

Johnson’s fiancée is not the biological mother of his two children, Cutler said.

“We don’t have much else at this point,” Cutler said. “Our investigation is continuing.”

Cutler said she “couldn’t wrap” her head around the bizarre incident.

“Even the thought crossing their mind of having to use deadly force on a child is disturbing,” Cutler said of cops. “For someone to even put their child in that position is so disturbing. I can’t even wrap my head around it, how that even happens.”

 

Sadaat Shamille Johnson is being held without bond on felony child abuse and misdemeanor threat or use of a dangerous weapon charges

Child welfare officials took custody of Sadaat Shamille Johnson’s 4-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter

 

Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera said the incident shows “how out of hand the campaign against police” has become.

“This is a sad day for us because the person who pulled that trigger was 4 years old,” Salt Lake County Sheriff Rosie Rivera told KUTV. “Just think the gravity of that — a 4-year-old was told, we believe by the father, to pull the trigger and shoot a police officer. Thank God the officer was able to deflect.”