Thursday, March 1, 2012

School Shooter Suspect charged with murder as victims' parents speak out!

T.J. Lane the 17 year old shooting suspect is being charged with murder,  the charges state that the teenager "purposely and with prior calculation and design" fatally shot three people while at Chardon High School. In addition to this charge he faces two counts of aggravated murder and one count of felonious assault.  This is Lane's first run in with the law other than juvenile troubles. This young man fatally took three innocent boys life's for absolutely no reason.  These young men will never graduate from high school, or college, get married have children.  He took these three boys from their families in a rampage of hate, dislike? No one really knows why!  T.J. Lane had issues with assault before, his own aunt called the police on him after he started a fight with his uncle. On another occasion she called the police again because of him assaulting her husband again, when the police arrived her husband was knocked out on the floor bleeding from his mouth.  According to the article Lanes' friends said that he had a troubled childhood.  His father and mother both had been in trouble with the law. His father served prison time for assaulting a law enforcement officer, and also charge with felonious restraint for holding a woman against her will holding her under running water and bashing her head in to a wall. 
All I can think of is WOW!  There are several kids out there that have "troubled" childhoods, and have parents that have or are doing time, but they don't go ballistic on  there school.  His grandparents had custody of him, they should have been able to see that this kid was having issues. Either that or they just turned their head the other way and didn't want to worry about it.  Because they did not take the time to notice that this kid was having issues, three families lost their sons this week.  Three boys lost their futures, and why?  I think as a parent or grandparent regardless of the situation, pay attention to what  is going on with your kids. " One of the victims Danny Parmertos brother Dominic said that his brother was going to change the world!  He always smiled and my brother was the happiest kid on the earth." 
For some reason this article really struck me.  I can not imagine losing my son like this, or at all.  As parents we send our children to school thinking that this is a "safe" place for them.  Phyllis Ferguson whose son Demetrius lost his life also stated:  "No matter what you're going through ... you grab your children, you kiss them and tell them you love them."

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