Posted on 07/10/2006 8:33:36 PM PDT by FreeAtlanta
19 year old Tommy Canavan, who was a student at Georgia College and State University in Milledgeville, came to Dalton with some friends to go bowling.
His family has now made arrangements for his funeral.
Whitfield County Sheriff Scott Chitwood said just after 10:00 p.m. Friday night, Canavan and three friends pulled into the parking lot of Galaxy Bowling at 2208 Cleveland Highway.
Seconds later the chemistry student who had plans to become a pharmacist was shot in the chest.
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Prayers for the family of this young man.
Obviously, they had a license to carry (/s).
Prayers for this young man and his family.
Tragic and horrible waste. Hopefully the deceased will gain a jury in line with his peers.
Suspects still on the loose.
Heartfelt condolences to his family and friends. We are very sorry for your loss.
He and Galaxy Bowling managers said they are worried that news of the murder will effect their businesses in the shopping center.
Man, that's cold. They could've gone without saying that in public. Greedy lifesuckers. :(
Very sad. Prayers for him and his family and the friends who were with him.
Thug culture is so evil. It is depressing to think how many good lives in this country have been lost to this most horrible segment of our society, which we seem to be incapable of doing anything about or controlling in any way. It infuriates me when I read things like this. And I feel so sad for the decent people whose lives have been destroyed by these subhumans.
Amen to that. If you have so little regard to life itself you don't deserve your own life. Death penalty, period and ended.
(The Palestinian terrorist regime is the crisis and Israel's fist is the answer.)
Oh my. So sad!! Prayers for the family and friends.
This is very sad... :(
What I'm not understanding in the article is that the "business owners" around the bowling alley question if the shooting took place?
Or that there was some sort of confrontation "somewhere else" and the kids were followed?
Sounds more to me like the "business owners" are more concerned about the REPUTATION of the shopping center - than the reality that it is not a safe place... :(
How very sad. I will be praying for his family.
How horrible. Hopefully, the killers will be brought to justice quickly.
"Whoever goes out late at night to a known high crime area is asking for trouble. 'Nuff said."
Uhhhh, no.
You have the right to walk down the street and peaceably attend to your own business. Period. The fact that you're in a "known high crime area" or out at an odd hour isn't in any way, shape, or form even the slightest justification for being gunned down.
We tend to forget that human beings live in these "known high crime areas" due to poverty, bad luck, illness or any of dozens of other reasons that have nothing to do with their personal morality.
The culpability here is squarely on the shoulders of the subhuman scum who committed this crime. Street crime is just another form of domestic terrorism and should be treated as such.
If everone was packing this may have been avoided, or at least immediate justice could have been served.
I am VERRRRRYYYY close friends with the 3 other boys that were in the car that night and someone saying that ppl should expect these things in high crime areas is just stupid. first of all, since when is a crowded bowling alley a high crime area?? i did not personally know tommy but ive known the other 3 for close to 6 years now and graduated with 2 of them and i feel so badly for everyone involved and comments like that and the comment that maybe something happened somewhere else and they followed them there is just absurd...people need to stop makin excuses for what our country has come to these days concerning violence and malicious people. to all the people who insist on blaming others and writing it off as just something that happened for people being in a "bad place" think what youd feel like if it was YOUR child who just wanted to go blwling with some friends from college....
I did not mean to incinuate that it was a high crime area, or anything else for that matter except that "If everyone was packing" (carrying a gun) defending oneself or friends would be easier. The thugs would have assumed that their victim would have not been an easy target because everyone carried a gun. But thanks to 'gun control' every criminal now knows that everyone else is commanded by 'law' not to bear arms. And criminals are everywhere. Thus, every law abiding citizen is now an easy target. And everyplace is a 'bad area' now. Drugs and their related crimes have infiltrated every town in this country.
If it were my son? I would have hoped that the three friends of his would have pulled their piece, put a bullet in each of the thugs limbs, put the barrel in the thugs mouth, and then pull the trigger (faster justice). But that's just me. And thanks to the liberals the blood of the innocent calling from the dirt for justice, will never get what they deserve.
I understand the hurt. It's the hurt that calls out for vengence. Just today in Burbank, Il., a 15 year old boy with a prostetic leg was attacked and beaten by two other boys. A man came to the rescue of the boy but the thugs ripped the prosthesis off the boy's leg and beat the man with it before smashing it to the ground destroying it.
The man needed a 44.
oh well....as it turns out it wasnt even at the bowling alley..it was an an apt parkin lot during a drug deal that "went bad"....kinda makes you think more about feelin sympathetic for the victim and his friends huh?
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