[rellimpank]

--ah yes, another victim of "gun violence", I suppose--

[yldstrk]

Well, dayum...

[Onelifetogive]

shot to death by a Clearlake man who said his home was being invaded.

Sheesh...I'll be he was actually selling girl scout cookies...

[Onelifetogive]

shot to death by a Clearlake man who said his home was being invaded.

Important lesson here...

When you must defend your property, SHOOT TO KILL. The person (or persons) who is still alive gets to "say" what happened.

[misty4jc]

So how do you go from a sweet kid who raises money for victims of a tragedy, to robbing banks and houses? Mom...?

[The KG9 Kid]

The man that Rashad and his friend were robbing was an illicit grower of marijuana 'for medical purposes'. His bales of weed are worth thousands and will sell quick on the street. Foiling the crime, the grower opens up with his gun and both Rashad and his friend are dead in the street.

Be sure that the shooting death of this once hopeful young man will be used to further Chris Daly's ballot initative to ban firearms inside the city, while the fact that the very presence of the medical marijuana clinics and it's illicit supporting grower network has amplified street crime.

... But you'll never read that in the SF Bay Guardian.

[Bob J]

How does being a "high school track star" give one "a future"? Running from the cops I guess.

[I see my hands]

A tragic death because he was fleet? I eat pizza real good. Move over Mother Teresa.

[IronJack]

In December, he died -- shot to death by a Clearlake man who said his home was being invaded.

And everyone except Rashad lived happily ever after.

[Chinito]

"Police say Edmonds shot both men in the back -- Williams twice and Foster five times. Their bodies were found on 11th Street, outside his house. Edmonds' girlfriend said she was beaten up, along with her teenage son, who was in a coma and is now in a rehabilitation facility.

OK, so these thugs beatup the defender's (i.e., the shooter - probably a dirt bag himself) girlfriend and left her boy in a coma (this is buried waaaay down at the bottom of the article). Man, talk about a slanted story. Sorry, my sympathies to the former track star's family, but HE is the one that made a bunch of lousy choices; HE is the one that failed to graduate, etc etc, and HE is the one ultimately to blame.

[tinamina]

Must be the "Projects" that do it. OJ Simpson's neighborhood.

[geezerwheezer]

Really a sad story all around, bt what of the kid in a coma from these dead boys? Doesn't his life mean something too? The article tries to make the dead kid into a tragic charactor, but I have no sympathy for his kind, he made his bed, nw let him lie in it, even if it's six feet under. Bad choices, bad friends, bad actions=EARLY DIRT NAPS