A 14-year-old boy shot his mother 'at least ten times' as she slept on the couch.
The teen, named by family members as Joshua Smith, from east Detroit, allegedly unleashed a hail of bullets on Tamiko Robinson, 36, in the early hours of Monday morning, according to a police spokesman.
Smith, who was on the swimming team at Kettering High School, was said to be angry that his mother had tried to keep him off the streets and away from a gang.
Smith's uncle LeShaun Roberts, told Fox Detroit News the teen had wanted to 'hang with the big boys' - gang members in their twenties - but when his mother said no he ran away to relatives.
But Robinson, a dialysis patient, who was battling lupus, went after her son and insisted he came home, angering the youngster.
'He broke into his step dad's room, got a twelve gauge and brutally shot my sister,' Roberts said. 'He shot at least ten times.
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