The Josh Innes Show - Another Kid Shot Over Ding Dong Ditch

Episode Date: September 3, 2025

An 11 year old kid died in Houston after getting shot playing Ding Dong Ditch. I know that some people will criticize parents in this situation. How about crapping on psychos? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It appears we have another situation where some kids got plugged playing ding-dong ditch, and this one's in Houston, and an 11-year-old kid is dead over this. Like, look, no kid that's 11 years old deserves to get plugged playing ding-dong ditch, okay? But it sounds like this story's actually kind of not what you'd think in terms of, you know, who the perpetrator is. Like, generally speaking, it's like a get-off-my-lawn type of situation, but I don't think that's what this story. he is. Let's play a few commercials and we will get into it. All right, it's game week, baby, and we are ready for football with Draft King's Sportsbook and official sports betting partner of the National Football League.

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that we had one of these stories that we talked about where some kids I think it was some teenagers got shot I don't know if they died or not but they got shot playing ding dong ditch which is something that we all did at some point in life we all did dumb things as a kid like if you go back and look at all the dumb shit you did as a kid you know it's a wonder someone didn't kick your fucking ass or shoot your ass like uh the number like i remember once i was with my my aunt i was at the my grandpa's house in poplar bluff missouri and they were playing girl talk right which was you know everybody sits around board game oh truth or day or truth blah blah blah like go ask for toilet paper next door like you go knock on someone's door at nine o'clock at night

while it's dark there's a chance you're just getting shot especially in this era back then i don't know but like just even for a little dopey thing like asking for toilet paper at nine o'clock at night that's a good way of getting your little ass kicked right it's a and it's a different world now like we're in a world where you fuck around you're probably going to find out right people are not afraid to shoot they're going to shoot first and ask question second and you may end up dead and this 11 year old kid Julian Guzman uh is now dead and it's like you know it's a terrible story And it's one of those stories where, like, if you could be one of those people that's like, well, you need to raise your kids better and tell them not to fuck around.

Kids are going to fuck around. Like, do you think my dad, like, all the bad shit I ever did? Do you think my dad told me to go do that? Do you think my dad, like, I like when people have that viewpoint on shit, right? Like, I do think there are examples of situations where if you raise your kids right, they probably won't do horrible shit. But even kids who are raised right, raised with the fear of fucking up, they could have repercussions, all that. Even good kids do dumb shit. Like, I think I was a pretty good kid

growing up, but, like, one time me and my buddy had go-carts, you know, and we were driving around the neighborhood, and we fucked up some businesses gravel because we were, like, cutting donuts in these go-carts when we're, like, 15 years old, and you got in fucking trouble for it. Sometimes you're a kid and you do dumb shit, right? But you can still be good fucking kids. And I think part of the issue that I have with stories like this is you're going to see a section of the of the population and a section or a you know a group of people that'll say dumb shit like well I got to be raised better and you can't have kids doing this kind of dumb shit and look do you think that you know Julian Guzman's parents were like hey go play

ding dong ditch and do dumb shit that can put you in harm's way I guarantee like I don't want to guarantee you but I feel like this 11 year old kid's parents probably constantly hammered home to him to not do dumb shit and you're putting yourself in danger because my day dad did all the time. You can question my dad's parenting skills. You can question a lot of shit. One thing my dad said is like, don't put yourself in harm's way and don't do dumb shit. And I always kind of respected that. Doesn't mean that I always did it. Sometimes I'd fuck up and make mistakes. None of them led to me dying or being shot by somebody, but there are times you do dumb fucking things as a kid. And an 11 year old kid doesn't deserve to

fucking die over it. So like the more I read it, like it's such a shitty story. It's such a bad story and I hate it because what it becomes is you'll get people and they'll judge and they'll talk about how shitty the parents must be. And it's just bullshit. And I'm, I'm straw manning here to a degree because I haven't seen comments on the story. I'm just seeing the story. But I'm going to guess if you go to a Facebook page for a news outlet that post the story, you'll get like, oh, that's a sad story, but maybe the parent should have told them to not do dumb shit or you do stupid things. You fuck around and you find out. Kids fucking 11. Like it even feels different than the story from before because those were teenagers. And I want to say they were 16 and

17 and they were doing shit for TikTok. I think this kid was filming these two, so he was probably going to put the shit on TikTok too. But there's a major difference between the mindset of an 11-year-old versus the mindset of a 16- or 17-year-old. And that's just fucking terrible. Like, 17-year-old kids can be douchebags and are far more aware of the dumb shit they're doing and the harm they're putting themselves in than an 11-year-old fucking kid does.

And I guarantee you that this kid's parents didn't sit him down and go like, hey, go do all run amok, son. Like, there's just, there's no way. way, but I'm looking at this and the details are that the suspect is a 42-year-old man named Gonzalo Leon Jr. He was, quote, waiting in the shadows behind a fence in his side yard when he shot the boy. What the fuck, dude? Also, upset, because usually these stories are white guy shoots brown person, right? That's kind of the way, and that's the way the media likes these stories because it's cut and dry. It's easy for them, right? But you know how the

media operates. So I was seeing the stories about this trans mass shooter, whatever, last week. And I'll see random post pop up on my Twitter where it's like, oh, like four mass shootings ever have been perpetrated by trans people. But yeah, let's talk shit about trans people. And it's like, well, again, the only people that matter to you are white motherfuckers that shoot people. If it's not them, it's like it didn't happen. If a white person didn't shoot somebody, it's like the shooting never happened. But anyway, I digress. More details on this story. The child and his 10-year-old cousin had knocked on Leon's door three times within about 15 minutes while playing the prank. The boy was taken to the hospital in critical condition and died from his injuries

on Sunday. Houston Police Sergeant Michael Cass said Julian was recording the incident on his phone, showing himself knocking and running. Police emphasized that the boys clearly appeared as children and we're not threatening in any way. Like, I'm on the side of people. Like, there's a part of me that's like fuck around and find out, especially if it's like teenagers. I know that sounds worse, but like if you're some teen kids doing dumb shit, I think you're more aware of the dumb shit you're doing.

I think you get it. I think that while you're not an adult, you're closer to an adult than a 10 and 11 year old kid. I don't know. This story is gross. What's also interesting is this story is in a radio show prep website. Like, what top 40, and these are things that are basically hubs for links and stories that you can use on your little radio shows? I'd like to know what music radio show in Des Moines is like, hey, that was Sabrina Carpenter.

Did you hear that this 11-year-old got plugged in Houston? Let's get into the nitty-gritty of this. Just shitty, though. The kids clearly appeared as children and were not threatening in any way. He was taken to the hospital where he died Sunday. Leon, a former army veteran who served in deployment and reserves, has been charged with murder. Police found him at a hotel in Leport, Texas, with a packed car and a three-day booking. During a search of his home, officers discovered a handgun, 20 other firearms, and tactical and smoke grenades.

Police said it appeared Leon was a firearms collector. He's scheduled to appear in court today. Like, brother, like, see you later. These are the kind of stories where if this guy survives this, it's almost like, brother, like, there's no way. To me, when you, like, you shoot somebody when you feel threatened, right? And I'm on your side. If someone's in your home, blow them the fuck away. Someone busts into your house, blow them away.

Someone's threatening your life, blow them away. I'm all on your side on that. Watching some kids knock on your door and run away while annoying is certainly not a, hey, let's hang out in the bushes and shoot some motherfuckers kind of way. Truly an upset, though, that I'm going to guess that the sky is Hispanic, right? Gonzalo, I don't know. You ever met a white dude named Gonzalo? I haven't.

Gonzalo Leon Jr. You're going to go to jail for a long time, brother. And again, this is not a situation where I think better parenting. Like, I think people like to throw blankets over shit and be like, you know, be a better parent and teach your kids. Dude, there are a lot of great fucking parents whose kids. do dumb shit. Everybody listening to this podcast at some point has

knocked on someone's door and ran away. Everyone's done it. If you're listening to this, you survives. Congratulations. But everyone listening to this podcast at this moment has knocked on someone's door or they know a buddy who has and you ran away and you laughed about it. We used to

fuck around. So our neighbor, back in the days of the universal remote control, we bought a universal remote control and would go around by people's houses and and like figure out what kind of TV they have, programmed, the remote. You'd look in the little booklet that's like, hey, you have a Magnavox. And you would look at the Magnavox code and you type it in, like you hit the button,

the button starts flashing and you're like, all right, code number, you know, 24756. Boom, now it's programmed for that particular Magnavox. And then you would just like look into someone's window and turn off their TV. Great fucking prank back in the day. Like, solid. You do that shit today, shot in the back dead. Like, you don't fuck around. like that but that's easy for me to say as a 40 year old dude when you're 10 years old you don't know

but those are quality pranks like I was never an egg someone's house I was never a you know toilet paper someone's house like that type of shit but like those guys I think mine were more cerebral pranks like imagine the misery of being some guy sitting there and you can't figure out why your TV keeps turning off like that's funny like and you're sitting there watching this bastard and you're just laughing your balls off. That's funny. At one of my dad's events once, there was a lot of it was for one of his Scooby movie premieres and he had all this dry ice that was at the Hilton. This was not the Hilton. It was at a holiday inn, I think.

And he had all this dry ice and me and my buddy just poured the shit into the swimming pool and people are like, what the fuck? Like doing fun shit, that's fun. That's just, that's good old clean fun. We didn't get shot. Anywho. More to come. friends.