A teenager who coaxed his senile grandmother into holding a gun in a gangsta rap video has been sentenced to 18 months in juvenile detention. Michael Alfinez, 18, pleaded guilty to charges of elderly abuse and discharging a firearm from a vehicle.
His 85-year-old grandmother Marie Huertas is seen in the video holding a handgun, wearing a black mask and threatening to shoot "all the pigs". Alfinez said he got the idea from a Gangstas And Thugs video and "knew (his) grandmother could be like that, too, or better".
Authorities in Florida seized the tape in April during a routine traffic stop. The teenager, from Lake Worth, and two of his friends were seen in the video shooting a pistol.
He admitted to investigators that he dressed up his gran, told her what to say and asked her to flash money for the video, according to a sheriff's report.
Alfinez also confessed to shooting the .22 calibre pistol from a car window six times. He was sentenced to 18 months in detention followed by three years' probation.
His family said the case was a misunderstanding.
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