pjmedia.com By Jack Dunphy
I’ve been a cop for more than 40 years, during which time I have waded through the aftermaths of many, many violent deaths. A murder case may take several years to meander its way from the crime scene, investigation, and then through the criminal justice system before it’s finally presented to a jury. In observing this process as often as I have, it never fails to strike me how the ripples of sadness radiating from such a crime can wash over so many people, even those only tangentially connected to the case.
Recent events call to mind a case in which one young man shot and killed another for what most people living safely away from gang territory would consider the pettiest of reasons. Three members of a certain gang went to the very heart of a rival gang’s neighborhood, where they played loud music, drank beer, shouted insults, and simply dared their rivals to do something about it.
One did, emptying the magazine of a semiautomatic pistol at the three, a single round from which struck the victim in the head, killing him. The other fifteen rounds in the gun struck parked cars, houses, and some playground equipment in a nearby park, where, we can be grateful, no children were playing at the time.
The victim inspires little sympathy. He and his two comrades did, after all, invite the challenge to their presence on the street, and judging from his criminal history, if he had not been killed that day he would have been some other day, or else killed someone else and been locked away for years and years.
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