Minnesota CCW: A sad but true tale of 2 bruised women

Minneapolis Star-Tribune ^ | May 16, 2004GROW0516 | Doug Grow

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A sad but true tale of 2 bruised women

Doug Grow, Star Tribune
May 16, 2004

More than two weeks after she was brutally assaulted in her south Minneapolis bookstore, the bruises on Lynn Murray's face still show.

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On May 1, a Saturday, two young thugs entered her establishment, The Book Trader store, in the middle of the day. They pounded on her with their fists and kicked her before stealing money and some of the collectibles she sells.

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Six blocks away, Susan Knox is dealing with a different sort of bruising, the internal kind. Knox, 40, is the mother of the two who allegedly assaulted Murray. On the day before Mother's Day, Knox turned her sons in to Minneapolis police.

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"It was hard," said Knox of the decision to tell authorities her sons had done the crime. "I love my boys. But the buck stops here. If I don't stop it, maybe it keeps going. If I don't do something my boys might think, 'Mom knows what's going on and she thinks it's cool.' I don't think it's cool."

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"You know what my nieces and nephews say?" she asked. 'Glad you're not our mom.' But my minister says I did the right thing."

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Doug Grow is at dgrow@startribune.com.

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[MEGoody]

Mom, I know it was hard to do, but you did the right thing.

[brbethke]

Oh, my heart just @*#&ing bleeds for Susan Knox.

[TEXOKIE]

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