Who would DO something like that?
I found out last night that a dear friend of my family, Claradell Keller, was brutually shot and murdered and had her house burned down on Sunday morning. She was 78 years old.
To say Claradell was a nice lady is an understatement. To me, she was the grandmothers I'd lost, the cheerful adult I looked up to and respected. I got to know her when I was a teenager and joined the church choir with my mom. Claradell was always making people smile, and cared for everyone she met. When I had to quit choir when I was in college she was always the first to say she missed me. A few years ago when my mother passed away she was one of the first to comfort my dad and I, and always spoke well of her. She even would invite my dad and I over to her house. Claradell was active in her church and community, and I can't think of a person who knew her who didn't love her.
Yet someone, some slime of the earth person, shot and killed her in her own house and then burned her house to the ground. I can't seem to wrap my head around it all. Who would DO something like that? Who could shoot and kill a defenseless, sweet old lady in cold blood? And why would they do that? She didn't seem like the kind of person who would have enemies. She was 78 years old, she deserved to die a more peaceful death. It isn't fair.
I think the reason it has hit me so hard is she is the first person I've known to die like this. I've known plenty of people who have died from illness or disease, some from accidents, and some lucky people by old age. Maybe this just shows how "small town" I am, but I have never known anyone to be murdered who was close to me until now. It just doesn't seem right.
I know Claradell is up in Heaven now, and knowing her probably praying for all the people that are mourning her loss. I speak for everyone when I say I hope they find the bastard who did this to you, and in this case, how I wish we lived in a state that enforced the death penalty- because anyone who would do something like this deserves something much worse than what they get.
To say Claradell was a nice lady is an understatement. To me, she was the grandmothers I'd lost, the cheerful adult I looked up to and respected. I got to know her when I was a teenager and joined the church choir with my mom. Claradell was always making people smile, and cared for everyone she met. When I had to quit choir when I was in college she was always the first to say she missed me. A few years ago when my mother passed away she was one of the first to comfort my dad and I, and always spoke well of her. She even would invite my dad and I over to her house. Claradell was active in her church and community, and I can't think of a person who knew her who didn't love her.
Yet someone, some slime of the earth person, shot and killed her in her own house and then burned her house to the ground. I can't seem to wrap my head around it all. Who would DO something like that? Who could shoot and kill a defenseless, sweet old lady in cold blood? And why would they do that? She didn't seem like the kind of person who would have enemies. She was 78 years old, she deserved to die a more peaceful death. It isn't fair.
I think the reason it has hit me so hard is she is the first person I've known to die like this. I've known plenty of people who have died from illness or disease, some from accidents, and some lucky people by old age. Maybe this just shows how "small town" I am, but I have never known anyone to be murdered who was close to me until now. It just doesn't seem right.
I know Claradell is up in Heaven now, and knowing her probably praying for all the people that are mourning her loss. I speak for everyone when I say I hope they find the bastard who did this to you, and in this case, how I wish we lived in a state that enforced the death penalty- because anyone who would do something like this deserves something much worse than what they get.