My friend of 30 years was shot in the face as he walked to a local pizza parlor. The same walk he has made every evening for nine years. No confrontation, no robbery, no reason. Does this sort of violence sound familiar?
Point em out-knock em out. Even though the age difference of the suspects and each case is vastly different, the mentality is the same.
On October 28, the Herald & Review ran a story about a group of young men who beat two 61-year-old homeless men to death in Michigan. The first 15-year-old to stand trail received life in prison.
Let’s hope the Macon County court system dis-penses an equal amount of justice for Jerry Newingham who has beaten to death, and Kevin Wilson who was beat and left paralyzed, and last but certainly not least my friend Ed when his offender is caught.
Orville French
Decatur
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