Mother of child killed by stray bullet speaks at shooter’s sentencing

Honor Tate still has the bullet fragments in his leg.

The boy still wakes in the middle of the night, his mother said, haunted by the terror of his older brother, SirAmani Clark, bleeding out in front of him.

Honor was 6 and his brother 9 when Eliazar Quintero fired a rifle from a neighboring apartment and a stray bullet ripped through the wall into their living room while the brothers watched cartoons that evening.

“No child should ever have to carry those visuals,” their mother, Justine Tate, told a judge at Quintero’s sentencing hearing on Tuesday. “No 6-year-old boy should ever have to see that. My baby had to watch this happen.”

Quintero pleaded guilty in June to three felony counts, including involuntary manslaughter and reckless endangerment.

On Tuesday, District Judge Jacqueli