So I saw this article on the front page of the internet this morning.
Four College Friends Shot in New Jersey
AP
Psted: 2007-08-06 16:33:54
NEWARK, N.J. (Aug. 6) - Three friends were forced to kneel against a wall behind an elementary school and were shot to death at close range, and a fourth was found about 30 feet away with gunshot and knife wounds to her head, police said. All were from Newark and planned to attend Delaware State University this fall.
Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow said authorities didn't have any suspects or a motive in the killings late Saturday. None of the victims had any criminal record, she said. "They were good kids," Dow said. The four had been listening to music in a parking lot behind Mount Vernon School when they were gradually joined by a group of men, authorities said. Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy said the four exchanged text messages saying they should leave, but were attacked before they could do so. Police said the attackers shot one young woman, then forced her three companions down an alley, lined them up against a wall, made them kneel and shot each in the head. Natasha Aer
ial, 19, was listed in fair condition at Newark's University Hospital, authorities said. Police identified her companions as her brother, Terrance Aerial, 18, Iofemi Hightower, 20, and Dashon Harvey, 20. The Aerials' mother, Renee Tucker, said the last time she saw them was around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, when they told her they were going around the corner to get something to eat. "They said they were going to come right back to the house," Tucker said.
Hightower was a motivated student who had recently enrolled at Delaware State, according to her great-uncle John McClain. "She was one of the most beautiful ladies you'd ever want to meet," McClain said. "Very smart, very intelligent. She wanted to be something in life." In the wake of the killings, Mayor Cory A. Booker's administration was again hearing from residents angry about the city's homicide rate. A month ago, Booker and Police Director Garry McCarthy announced that crime in the city had fallen by 20 percent in the first six months of 2007 compared to a year ago. Yet despite decreases in the number of rapes, aggravated assaults and robberies, the killings have continued. "He doesn't deserve another day, another second, while our children are at stake," said Donna Jackson, president of Take Back Our Streets, a community-based organization. "Anyone who has children in the city is in panic mode." Booker's office didn't return a call for comment on Monday. Saturday night's killings, along with an unrelated shooting over the weekend that killed a Montclair man, brought Newark's 2007 homicide toll to 60. That is three fewer than in the same period in 2006. But there have been 17 slayings in the eight weeks since June 12. At Delaware State, officials said the school plans to hold a memorial service Aug. 28, after the student body returns for the fall semester. "While the murder of the two students is a terribly loss in human terms, the facts that they were a part of the DSU family and were striving to earn a degree, create a bright future for themselves and become a solid contributors to society, makes this violent act especially tragic and senseless," university President Allen Sessoms said.
Okay so I read this and I couldn't believe it, what could bring a person to do something like this? How evil and stupid could you possibly be? Those kids had bright futures and families to go home to and all that was taken away by a group of strangers, shit like this breaks my heart and as bad as it was to read this article the worst was reading the users comments. I'm gonna post a few so you can see what I'm talking about.
1. I LIKE TO EQUATE BLACK ON BLACK CRIME WITH SHIITES MUSLIMS AGAINST SUNNI MUSLIMS, AND WITH FOREST BLAZE AGAINST FOREST BLAZE, WITH THE MATHEMATICAL FACTOR OF "X" DIVIDED BY "X"IT'S A MATHEMATICAL CERTAINTY THAT ONE WILL CANCEL OUT THE OTHER AND LEAVE ONE DESIRABLE PRODUCT TO THE REMAINDER.ISN'T THAT CORRECT DR. NASH?
2. YOU PLAY WITH FIRE, YOU GET BURNED,....THESE GUYS LEARNED THEIR LESSON THE HARD WAY,....THEY DESERVED THE OUTCOME,...GOOD RIDDANCE!
3. thin yhe herd
4. I pray I am lucky enough to be approached in such manner.....I carry 2 mini glocks(with permits) and have practiced diligently at the local range every sunday......Please make my day!!
5. The inner city is full of animals so let them kill each other off.When will the negro population stop blaming white people for their problems and owen up to the fact that most crime is commited by the brothers in their own back yards.So who cares.If you dont feed them they starve yet they keep having kids like dogs.Let them all go to hell.
6. I SAY THAT ALL BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD BE KILLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE SHOULD HAVE US A HOLOCAUST ONLY WIT BLACK PEOPLE!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOO WHOS WIT ME BABY?????
7. KILL BLACK PEOPLE!!!!! WE SHOULD MAKE IT A LAW OR BETTER YET A SPORT
8. YES 4 LESS *******!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK GOD THOSE ******* ARE DEAD. ALL BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD BE KILLED THEY'RE GOOD FOR NOTHING. WHITE POWER! THE ONLY THING I REGRET IS THAT THE GIRL WAS NOT RAPED. PFFF AND THEY CALL THEMSELVES CRIMINALS............
9. BLACK PEOPLE DO US ALL A FAVOR AND RUN INTO KNIFES OR SOMETHING.THANK GOD FOR THIS GLORIOUS DAY WHERE THEY'RE 4 LESS BLACK PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. HALLELUJAH! THEY WOULD'VE GROWN UP TO KILL SOMEBODY OR ROB A BANK ANYWAYS. I MEAN IT IS IN THEIR BLOOD TO DO SO!
10. the minute I read it I immediately thought they must be black. it's such a typical "in tha hood" crime resulting from a steady diet of antisocial Rap music, videos and films that cheapen human life and glorify violence.
11. If we aborted every black baby presently in a womb the crime rate would fall 50% in the next 15 years.
I copied and pasted all of these, I didn't change a thing about them. Does reading all of this piss anyone else off besides me? Reading this shit actually made me cry and you know what? I've heard some cruel ignorant things in my life but all of this goes above and beyond. 3 people were murdered, one was shot and stabbed but survived, 3 mothers lost their childen, one of them almost lost 2, a young woman survived but saw her younger brother and 2 friends die. Things like this should open peoples eyes but it doesn't. After everything this world has gone through in the past you would think things would be different but at the end of the day all people see is black & white and that scares me. It makes me worry about my 2 year old nephew growing up in this world, knowing that he's gonna run into ignorant people like the ones above scares the hell outta me but I hope for the best, I pray for it. I pray that all these igorant people never have to go through what these families have gone through and that one day they'll realize that not one person on this earth is better then the others and it doesn't matter if you're black, white, purple, or blue your life has value and meaning. These children didn't deserve this, their families don't and neither do any of you. So I'll end this rant with this.
Rest in Peace: Terrance Aerial, Iofemi Hightower, Dashon Harvey.
And Natasha Aerial I hope you can find peace and that you recover not just physically but mentally and emotionally too.
Think people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Four College Friends Shot in New Jersey
AP
Psted: 2007-08-06 16:33:54
NEWARK, N.J. (Aug. 6) - Three friends were forced to kneel against a wall behind an elementary school and were shot to death at close range, and a fourth was found about 30 feet away with gunshot and knife wounds to her head, police said. All were from Newark and planned to attend Delaware State University this fall.
Essex County Prosecutor Paula Dow said authorities didn't have any suspects or a motive in the killings late Saturday. None of the victims had any criminal record, she said. "They were good kids," Dow said. The four had been listening to music in a parking lot behind Mount Vernon School when they were gradually joined by a group of men, authorities said. Newark Police Director Garry McCarthy said the four exchanged text messages saying they should leave, but were attacked before they could do so. Police said the attackers shot one young woman, then forced her three companions down an alley, lined them up against a wall, made them kneel and shot each in the head. Natasha Aer
ial, 19, was listed in fair condition at Newark's University Hospital, authorities said. Police identified her companions as her brother, Terrance Aerial, 18, Iofemi Hightower, 20, and Dashon Harvey, 20. The Aerials' mother, Renee Tucker, said the last time she saw them was around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, when they told her they were going around the corner to get something to eat. "They said they were going to come right back to the house," Tucker said.
Hightower was a motivated student who had recently enrolled at Delaware State, according to her great-uncle John McClain. "She was one of the most beautiful ladies you'd ever want to meet," McClain said. "Very smart, very intelligent. She wanted to be something in life." In the wake of the killings, Mayor Cory A. Booker's administration was again hearing from residents angry about the city's homicide rate. A month ago, Booker and Police Director Garry McCarthy announced that crime in the city had fallen by 20 percent in the first six months of 2007 compared to a year ago. Yet despite decreases in the number of rapes, aggravated assaults and robberies, the killings have continued. "He doesn't deserve another day, another second, while our children are at stake," said Donna Jackson, president of Take Back Our Streets, a community-based organization. "Anyone who has children in the city is in panic mode." Booker's office didn't return a call for comment on Monday. Saturday night's killings, along with an unrelated shooting over the weekend that killed a Montclair man, brought Newark's 2007 homicide toll to 60. That is three fewer than in the same period in 2006. But there have been 17 slayings in the eight weeks since June 12. At Delaware State, officials said the school plans to hold a memorial service Aug. 28, after the student body returns for the fall semester. "While the murder of the two students is a terribly loss in human terms, the facts that they were a part of the DSU family and were striving to earn a degree, create a bright future for themselves and become a solid contributors to society, makes this violent act especially tragic and senseless," university President Allen Sessoms said.
Okay so I read this and I couldn't believe it, what could bring a person to do something like this? How evil and stupid could you possibly be? Those kids had bright futures and families to go home to and all that was taken away by a group of strangers, shit like this breaks my heart and as bad as it was to read this article the worst was reading the users comments. I'm gonna post a few so you can see what I'm talking about.
1. I LIKE TO EQUATE BLACK ON BLACK CRIME WITH SHIITES MUSLIMS AGAINST SUNNI MUSLIMS, AND WITH FOREST BLAZE AGAINST FOREST BLAZE, WITH THE MATHEMATICAL FACTOR OF "X" DIVIDED BY "X"IT'S A MATHEMATICAL CERTAINTY THAT ONE WILL CANCEL OUT THE OTHER AND LEAVE ONE DESIRABLE PRODUCT TO THE REMAINDER.ISN'T THAT CORRECT DR. NASH?
2. YOU PLAY WITH FIRE, YOU GET BURNED,....THESE GUYS LEARNED THEIR LESSON THE HARD WAY,....THEY DESERVED THE OUTCOME,...GOOD RIDDANCE!
3. thin yhe herd
4. I pray I am lucky enough to be approached in such manner.....I carry 2 mini glocks(with permits) and have practiced diligently at the local range every sunday......Please make my day!!
5. The inner city is full of animals so let them kill each other off.When will the negro population stop blaming white people for their problems and owen up to the fact that most crime is commited by the brothers in their own back yards.So who cares.If you dont feed them they starve yet they keep having kids like dogs.Let them all go to hell.
6. I SAY THAT ALL BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD BE KILLED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! WE SHOULD HAVE US A HOLOCAUST ONLY WIT BLACK PEOPLE!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOO WHOS WIT ME BABY?????
7. KILL BLACK PEOPLE!!!!! WE SHOULD MAKE IT A LAW OR BETTER YET A SPORT
8. YES 4 LESS *******!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THANK GOD THOSE ******* ARE DEAD. ALL BLACK PEOPLE SHOULD BE KILLED THEY'RE GOOD FOR NOTHING. WHITE POWER! THE ONLY THING I REGRET IS THAT THE GIRL WAS NOT RAPED. PFFF AND THEY CALL THEMSELVES CRIMINALS............
9. BLACK PEOPLE DO US ALL A FAVOR AND RUN INTO KNIFES OR SOMETHING.THANK GOD FOR THIS GLORIOUS DAY WHERE THEY'RE 4 LESS BLACK PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. HALLELUJAH! THEY WOULD'VE GROWN UP TO KILL SOMEBODY OR ROB A BANK ANYWAYS. I MEAN IT IS IN THEIR BLOOD TO DO SO!
10. the minute I read it I immediately thought they must be black. it's such a typical "in tha hood" crime resulting from a steady diet of antisocial Rap music, videos and films that cheapen human life and glorify violence.
11. If we aborted every black baby presently in a womb the crime rate would fall 50% in the next 15 years.
I copied and pasted all of these, I didn't change a thing about them. Does reading all of this piss anyone else off besides me? Reading this shit actually made me cry and you know what? I've heard some cruel ignorant things in my life but all of this goes above and beyond. 3 people were murdered, one was shot and stabbed but survived, 3 mothers lost their childen, one of them almost lost 2, a young woman survived but saw her younger brother and 2 friends die. Things like this should open peoples eyes but it doesn't. After everything this world has gone through in the past you would think things would be different but at the end of the day all people see is black & white and that scares me. It makes me worry about my 2 year old nephew growing up in this world, knowing that he's gonna run into ignorant people like the ones above scares the hell outta me but I hope for the best, I pray for it. I pray that all these igorant people never have to go through what these families have gone through and that one day they'll realize that not one person on this earth is better then the others and it doesn't matter if you're black, white, purple, or blue your life has value and meaning. These children didn't deserve this, their families don't and neither do any of you. So I'll end this rant with this.
Rest in Peace: Terrance Aerial, Iofemi Hightower, Dashon Harvey.
And Natasha Aerial I hope you can find peace and that you recover not just physically but mentally and emotionally too.
Think people!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
