Mom, Kids Fire BB Gun In Repeat Shooting Sprees

The Long Island mom who drove kids around to fire BB guns at parked cars was arraigned on Saturday. 43-year-old Susan Becker was arrested by Suffolk County police on Friday amid reports that she drove three young teens, including two of her own children, in multiple drive-by shootings that broke windows in at least 60 cars.

Now, Becker faces 10 counts of criminal mischief and 11 counts of endangering the welfare of a child.

Suffolk County police said that Becker drove two 15-year-olds, her own daughter and a teen boy, and also her 13-year-old son, around as they fired off the BB guns and created havoc in Islandia, Hauppage, and Commack.

So far, the cops don’t know or haven’t revealed the motive behind the seemingly senseless shootings enabled by a mom driving a get-away car while she told the kids to fire the BB guns. Yes, that’s right. They don’t just suspect her of being the driver and the enabler. They think that she may have actually encouraged the young teens to take the potshots.

Her bail has been set at $30,000.

Baffled neighbor and father of three John McGuigan told a local TV station that most people in the area don’t understand: “The likelihood that somebody’s going to get hurt with that kind of behavior is just insane. I don’t know why anyone would want to do that.”

Another neighbor Susan Morelli told NBC that there must be some explanation that people don’t know about: “Susan is a great mom, she’s a great neighbor, she’s always there to help everybody…She just wouldn’t do something like that.”

But what could that explanation be? She’s the mom, and the kids are after all just kids. With BB guns. Not AK-47s held to her head. What are your thoughts on a mom driving kids around to fire off BB guns at cars?

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