An eight-year-old paid with his life after trying to protect his mother from an enraged father who shot the little boy instead.
Amir Harden, 8, was shot in the head and neck when he stepped between Danair Harden and his partner Cherish Edwards in Minnesota on June 5.
A court had been warned just hours earlier that the father posed ‘an immediate threat’ after assaulting the mother days before, but he was able to return to the family home in Burnsville.
Amir was shot in front of his mother and four young siblings before Harden turned the gun on himself, in an apparent unsuccessful suicide attempt.
