“Randy Budd did not die from a gunshot,” Union County District Attorney D. Peter Johnson told pennlive.com. “He died when those kids threw a rock through his windshield.”
We live in a lost and fallen world. Bad things happen to good people every single day. Suicide is the most cowardly reaction I can imagine.
Its not responsible for the prosecutor to blame a suicide on the wife's injury. The kids should be punished for throwing the rock and hurting the wife and endangering others, but suicide is based on a number of psychological and perhaps genetic factors. Lots of people have family members injured in crimes and don't kill themselves.
If the guy was of the mind that he wanted to kill himself, he should have just offed the five f#%&ers who committed that crime and pleaded guilty in exchange for a death sentence.
He killed himself and left an injured wife behind???? I will keep my opinion to myself.
Where in the bible, any bible, is suicide endorsed?
If any of you don’t object to suicide, how can you oppose Obamacare’s “death panels” and doctors that encourage sick patients to consider ending their own lives?
It’s a slippery slope....
While driving through Ohio, Columbus to be exact, I and my gf at the time (Separate cars) were attacked along with tens of other cars by blacks throwing concrete blocks at us. They were just walking around the highway - not even at the side. They were walking several lanes out into traffic to throw concrete blocks at us.
Then, in 2004, I was robbed by a toll booth attendant in Ohio.
Those roads out there are totally lawless.
Who’s going to take care of the wife now?
I did know a guy who committed suicide about three months after his wife of less than a year was killed in a car accident.
Presumably they weren't convicted of attempted murder but of some much lesser offense, which is unfortunate.
Most likely this was some kind of gang initiation ritual - many gangs make their new recruits do something like this to prove their loyalty and false "bravery."
Back on topic about the post after my PSA, when the woman dies as a result of her injuries, be it 10 ot 20 years from now, the rock throwers will be charges with murder. Sounds like this prosecutor has some cajones.
As for the now dead husband, I am so sorry that he was in such pain. Caring for a disabled person is incredibly difficult, more so for men than women I believe. Perhaps he felt as tho his wife, the woman he shared his life with, actually ceased to exist after the attack. We should not judge him, but rather pray for his family.
Why not charges of attempted murder?
Photos of late husband at the link:
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2014/10/one_trial_planned_for_four_tee.html