Posted on 09/25/2016 11:31:52 AM PDT by BBell
Tuesday night (Sept. 20), 38-year-old Travon Williams lay dead on the pavement outside a small grocery store at the intersection of North Claiborne Avenue and Desire Street.
Fatally shot, Williams had followed a grim pattern running through his family, a well-worn groove of untimely, violent deaths.
According to those who knew him, Williams had spent the past few years of his life trying to build better relationships with his daughters -- and trying to free himself from a tragic legacy.
At age 5, Williams lost his 24-year-old mother to gunfire at a Desire neighborhood barroom. Gretchen Williams of Desire was killed by another woman in September 1983 after an argument about a man. She was shot in the chest.
At age 15, Williams found his 37-year-old father shot dead alongside two others at the Desire housing complex.
The young Williams was among the first Desire residents at the triple murder scene, a sight so gruesome that another resident described it as "walking into hell."
"Somebody called and said 'Big Milton' got killed in the driveway," Travon Williams told The Times-Picayune in April 1993. "I went around there and saw the bodies. I knew it was my daddy because he had on the hat he always wears."
Witnesses said the body of Milton Williams was found at the end of a long driveway known as "Cocaine Alley." He was shot once through the heart.
Travon Williams, the youngest of three siblings, also lost his older brother to gunshots some time before the mid-'90s, said Dorothy Parker, mother of Travon William's 19-year-old daughter.
At the scene Tuesday night, a woman identified by several bystanders as Williams' sister paced outside of the police tape, screaming demands to see her brother's body.
"I knew this was coming one day!" she cried.
Across the cordoned-off scene,
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If you read down the article you will find that daddy has a criminal record dating back to 1995.
The sad thing is that these people keep breeding.
Brought to us by Liberal Democrats since forever.
I’m sure everyone in the family was getting their lives back on track, studying to become architects, and dindu nuffins to instigate gun battles.
I was shocked he had daddy.
I didn’t live far from there in the 90s. Saw my share of others Just like him, DRT.
NOT THAT WELL if their ranks as a percentage of the population through the years is an indication.
Live birth rates have dropped YUGE, down 100k from 7 to 600k a year.
births per thousands has TUMBLED since 90s.
hmm.
Damn guns just keep hunting that poor family down.
I really hate when they do that.
Ain’t no purple hearts in the ghetto.
But there is a steady market for stuffed animals, balloons and loved on/hated on t-shirts...
Lotsa blame. For everybody but Trayvon.
Margaret Sanger?
He had a breeder. How much of a "father" the breeder was remains unreported.
Who would have ever thought that genetics played a role in attracting fatal gunshots? That must be one hell of a gene to do that.
“The sad thing is that these people keep breeding”
I have read that legalized abortion in the 70s lead to lower crime rates in the 2000s. May be castrations of criminals from juveniles and adults would lead lower crimes in subsequent generations.
Well, momma was cruising for other men when she was shot by a jealous girlfriend. I figure Daddy be long gone by the time he was 5.
Daddy gets killed in “Cocaine Alley”.
Maybe “lifestyle” choices should have been different?
Injustice Department stats show blacks commit homicide at more than seven times the rate, of others.
Sorry to say this, but they are apparently just more violent people.
Obama’s administration has tried to hide this, ignore this, deny this, obscure this fact.
Blacks are also statistically less likely to have children in marriages. Even high income blacks, btw. Blacks born outside marriages are statistically more likely to drop out of school, go to jail, be unemployed, and father/mother more out of wedlock babies.
Couple these facts, and you have reality today. It is what it is.
An intelligent black person would get out of the black communities, live among whites, and emulate whites’ lifestyle choices.
" I'll have those n***ers voting Democrate for the next 200 years."
I was shocked he knew who his daddy was.
But there is a steady market for stuffed animals, balloons and loved on/hated on t-shirts...
...and 40 ounce Colt 45's
Have you ever watched "Idiocracy"? Who would have thought a comedy would turn into a documentary about our future.
We have a lot of them around where I live.
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