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It. i do think that eventually they will end up hurting somebody if not themselves. >> they're both staying. detained. i'm going to bonaventura? >> will you state your name, please? >> devon starkey. >> how old are you, devon? >> i'm 18. >> we're here because devon was arrested on a bench warrant issued by the court. it says here your whereabouts were unknown by the juvenile lake county probation department. further he has failed to attend his court-ordered counseling and lastly, he has failed to attend an educational program on a regular basis. go on and have a seat up here, please. >> you ...

Themselves. >> both staying, detained. >> going to bonaventure. >> state your name, please. >> devon starky. >> how old are you, devon? >> i'm 18. >> all right. we're here today because devon was arrested on a bench warrant which was issued by this court. it says here devon starky's whereabouts have been unknown by lake county juvenile probation department. further that he has failed to attend his court ordered counseling. and lastly, that he failed to attend an educational program on a regular basis. all right. want to have a seat up here, please? >> you were ordered by the court to attend co...

I started smoking weed again and i left the home because i was scared that when i did go to court, these would be brought up, and i would end up getting in trouble. >> what were you thinking that was going to happen to this case, devon? >> i was thinking upon my 18th birthday, it would just be dropped, but as the case is, it isn't. >> as it relates to your arm in the sling, what happened to you, devon? >> well, while i was on my own, i was hanging with the wrong group of people, i got myself into a situation where i got shot. >> so you are very lucky that you're alive, aren't you? >> yes, ma'a...

Kids, whether in the hearing or outside the hearing is monumental. i think if there was one single thing i could point to to be able to predict the success or failure of a young person is the family involve management and support. >> sounds like for about four years now the court has been involved not only with his life but obviously your life as well. >> uh-huh. >> and so he's turned 18 now. you're a family that's had a lot of intervention and pretty quickly here there will be none. >> we are there to back him up 100%. i do have a lot of family support. everybody is pulling for him, you know....

Up, mom, please, and i wouldn't let him. i said no. i can't do that. i can't let you in the house. and then i find out he was shot. >> so on this monday, the judge has found it is in the best interest for kenneth and kentrell to be detained until the next court hearing. will devon's mother's pleas and his age be enough to convince the judge it is time for him to come home? >> he is on the verge of doing something horrible in his life and taken from you forever or on the verge of turning that corner. oh, hi, yes...wow, you really went all out on the decorations, huh?! yeah, but i'm so slow taki...