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...Tragedy Strikes Down the Street...
Death.
To me "Death" is usually a funny/jokable subject. Even when someone dies I'll usually make a little joke about it. I rarely feel sad, or any emotion at all. (Save for when "Mouse" died. That still makes me sad.)
...A couple nights ago an 18 year old boy, that my friends knew, was stabbed by a 16 year old boy...
-[I will refer to the 18 year old as: "James", and the 16 year old as: "Nelson"]-
James was at a hotel-room party down the street from my shop. James stole a girls cell phone and started calling people at the party with it. The girl's boyfriend (Nelson), who wasn't at the party, was called and informed that James refused to return the cell phone. As the party wound down, James and his friends left the party to find Nelson waiting in front of James' car. Nelson confronted James and initiated a fight. James punched Nelson who retorted by stabbing James with a knife he had hidden in his sleeve. James stumbled back to his dumbfounded friends mumbling "That mother fucker stabbed me." and collapsed in the hotel parking lot.
Nelson was on the run for about a day before he was caught and taken to jail. He will be tried and convicted as an adult for Premeditated 1st Degree Murder and spend the rest of his life in prison. James is dead, the knife stuck his heart dead center.
Now everytime I pass that hotel I feel a little sad. I didn't know anyone involved, but for some reason I feel sorry. For both boys.
Too many lives ruined over a cell phone.
Death.
To me "Death" is usually a funny/jokable subject. Even when someone dies I'll usually make a little joke about it. I rarely feel sad, or any emotion at all. (Save for when "Mouse" died. That still makes me sad.)
...A couple nights ago an 18 year old boy, that my friends knew, was stabbed by a 16 year old boy...
-[I will refer to the 18 year old as: "James", and the 16 year old as: "Nelson"]-
James was at a hotel-room party down the street from my shop. James stole a girls cell phone and started calling people at the party with it. The girl's boyfriend (Nelson), who wasn't at the party, was called and informed that James refused to return the cell phone. As the party wound down, James and his friends left the party to find Nelson waiting in front of James' car. Nelson confronted James and initiated a fight. James punched Nelson who retorted by stabbing James with a knife he had hidden in his sleeve. James stumbled back to his dumbfounded friends mumbling "That mother fucker stabbed me." and collapsed in the hotel parking lot.
Nelson was on the run for about a day before he was caught and taken to jail. He will be tried and convicted as an adult for Premeditated 1st Degree Murder and spend the rest of his life in prison. James is dead, the knife stuck his heart dead center.
Now everytime I pass that hotel I feel a little sad. I didn't know anyone involved, but for some reason I feel sorry. For both boys.
Too many lives ruined over a cell phone.