Was it the same father ?
Seriously does that have any bearing?
Another article:
Her 18-year-old son, Shaun Glassey, died of stab wounds four years ago. She said he was trying to break up a fight but that his assailants weren’t charged.
The South Jersey Times reported police accounts that said Glassey was among a group of teens that jumped other teens, one of whom defended himself with a steak knife.
West’s first floor apartment is in one of the big houses on Union Street that has been divided into apartments. Many of the houses, however, are big Victorian homes that have been restored or carefully kept up.
Antonio’s father, Louis Santiago, lives diagonally across Union Street from West in another apartment house.
“I’ve lost my boy,’’ Santiago said Friday morning. “They could have just let him live.”
Read more at Jacksonville.com: http://jacksonville.com/news/crime/2013-03-22/story/teens-arrested-fatal-shooting-brunswick-baby#ixzz2OOwkEfgt
The poor woman has lost two children.
Good grief, what is wrong with you???
Was it the same father ?
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Have you been drinking?
No. And the father of her late toddler lives in a nearby apartment.
Brunswick GA is a SMALL peninsula town in far SE GA. The ‘nice’ areas are only a few blocks on the SW of the ‘thumb’.
Brunswick failed as a city shortly after WWII when the shipyard there, which built 99 Victory ships was abruptly closed. About ten square miles of the town is housing built in that era populated with several generations of black ‘families’ living off subsidies, handouts and menial labor. I have done a lot of faith-based rehabilitation construction in that very part of town.
There are houses there with multiple generations housed there with no recognizable traditional family structure.
Recently the neighborhood mix has been shifted by marginally better off Hispanics moving in. The traditional residents have not always reacted well. The small pocket of BEAUTIFUL but dilapidated Victorian homes is mostly owned by gentrifiying whites who didn’t buy on nearby St Simons Island.
*IF* everyone in this story had been raised in a moral intact family the outcomes would likely be different.
So yes, it does matter in a way.