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| “ | You don't know what it's like out there. They've all got guns. He shot Ricky. He was gonna shoot me! | „ |
| ~ Kevin making excuses for accidentally killing Angel Ramirez while shooting at Juan Domingo. |
Kevin Parker is the secondary antagonist of the Law & Order episode "Kids". He is a teenage boy who accidentally kills another boy his age when he tries to shoot illegal arms dealer Juan Domingo, who had threatened the boy after he witnessed him commit a murder.
He was portrayed by Eric Alperin.
Biography[]
Early life[]
Kevin is the son of retired NYPD homicide detective Ted Parker and his ex-wife. His father, who became a security consultant to a brokerage firm after retiring from the NYPD, was too busy with work to spend much time with him, so he sent Kevin to an expensive Catholic high school to keep him out of trouble.
Trouble found Kevin, however, when he and his friend Ricky Morales went to buy a gun so Ricky, who lived in a high-crime area, could defend himself. That same night, they inadvertently witnessed the gun dealer, Juan Domingo, shoot and kill another dealer; Kevin escaped unharmed, but Domingo shot Ricky in the back, paralyzing him from the waist down.
Terrified that Domingo would shoot him, too, Kevin bought several handguns on the street and, along with his friend Billy Wojack, fired the weapons into an alley wall near their school for target practice. When Kevin actually tried to rush Domingo and shoot him, however, he missed and hit one of his own classmates, Angel Ramirez, killing him instantly.
"Kids"[]
After an eyewitness to the murder says that the killer was wearing a blazer from Kevin's school, NYPD Homicide Detective Lennie Briscoe - Ted's former partner - and Mike Logan search the school's lockers until they find the handguns in Billy's locker. When they bring in Billy for questioning, he admits that Kevin bought the guns; that, along with other circumstantial evidence and a strong motive, is enough for Briscoe and Logan to arrest Kevin.
Ted convinces Briscoe to let Kevin participate in a lineup before he is formally charged, but the same eyewitness identifies Kevin as the shooter, so he is charged with second-degree murder. Ted gets Kevin an expensive lawyer, Gordon Schell, who tries unsuccessfully to convince Executive Assistant District Attorney Ben Stone and Assistant District Attorney Claire Kincaid to charge him as a juvenile with manslaughter, for which he would receive a light prison sentence, but they are at a loss for how to prove his guilt because the evidence in the case against him is weak and Ricky refuses to testify for fear that Domingo will kill him. Outside the courtroom, Angel's parents confront Kevin and beseech him to do the right thing and confess. Unable to look them in the eye, Kevin mumbles that he is sorry and wishes he could "change it".
Stone decides to make a deal with Domingo to testify against Kevin in return for a reduced sentence for the murder and weapons trafficking cases against him. Domingo agrees to cooperate, but he is killed in prison by an unknown assailant before he can testify, thus destroying Stone's case. The jury ends up deadlocked and there is not enough evidence to charge Kevin again, so he goes free, even though Stone and Kincaid suspect - but cannot prove - that Ted ordered Domingo's murder to protect his son. When Stone runs into Ted and Kevin outside the courtroom, he asks Ted if he is teaching his son about right and wrong by having people killed, which provokes Kevin to look suspiciously at his father.
