Courtney Lockhart
Catherine Williams, the mother of suspect Courtney Lockhart, made the apology to Lauren Burk's family in an interview with Columbus, Ga., television station WTVM.
But she also said her son did not confess anything to her.
Posted on 03/09/2008 4:24:57 PM PDT by Libertarian444
The mother of the man charged with killing Auburn University student Lauren Burk said her son was an Iraq war veteran who was changed after his service, and she offered an apology to the freshman's family.
Burk, an 18-year-old from Marietta, was found shot on the side of an off-campus road Tuesday night outside Auburn, and her car was found burning in a campus parking lot.
Williams told the television station that her son hasn't been the same after serving 16 months in Iraq. She says her son had been living with her in Smiths, Ala., since returning from the war. Smiths is outside Phenix City and about 30 miles southeast of Auburn.
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Mama making excuses for her piece of trash thug son. I’m so surprised. /s
Newnan police said 72-year-old Marjorie Llewellyn of Newnan was pistol-whipped and briefly kidnapped at gunpoint during an armed robbery and attempted carjacking earlier in the day
Lockhart later confessed to other robberies in the area, Lewis said.
records show he served time in jail at Lee County in 2002 for harassment
Lockhart was arrested late Friday morning after he led Phenix City police on a high-speed chase.
For most of the 70's and even into the early 80's all we saw reported was "Vietnam Vet Robs Bank;" "Vietnam Vet Rapes Young Girl;" "Vietnam Vet Arrested for Selling Drugs:" Vietnam Vet this and Vietnam Vet that.
I did some research at the time and through old newspaper, could not find any such association for either Korean War Veterans and especially, WWII as well.
Of course we have John "The Snake" Kerry to thank for the extreme negative image we had to live with.
As it worked so well once and as the far-left, hate-America, anti-war crowd know this, (coupled with a corrupt media who are in bed with the former) count on this becoming the norm.
As for me, I want to see his records.
“PTSB is very real.”
Unless he’s been diagnosed, am leaning more towards this claim being an excuse to garner sympathy. But you’re absolutely correct. PTSD is a serious issue and for many on FR to poo poo it shows how little many truly care about our serivcemen and women. The only good story involving our wounded for them is the photo op when they get their purple heart. After that its bad publicity for Dubya and needs to be brushed aside.
Courtney Lockhart
Catherine Williams, the mother of suspect Courtney Lockhart, made the apology to Lauren Burk's family in an interview with Columbus, Ga., television station WTVM.
But she also said her son did not confess anything to her.
(Anti-)war movies tend to portray vets as maladjusted figures. The media tends to accept at face value any homeless guy's claim that he's a war veteran - a claim usually made to get better treatment or just to be able to bask in someone's admiration. The reality is that most homeless people who claim to be war veterans are not. Heck - even respectable people who claim to be war veterans aren't. Going into the military can change people, but it usually helps to discipline them. At the same time, many people who are maladjusted before going in continue being maladjusted after leaving. Joining the military isn't a panacea. By the time someone reaches his majority, he is more or less set in his ways, for good or for ill.
She had him longer than the Army.
If he’s 18, he sure didn’t spend much time over there. He got through Basic, School and went to and came back from Iraq in a few months?? He must be a wunderkind
She acts as if this is the first time that her ‘son’ has been in trouble with the law. It sure sounds like he walks around looking for someone to beat up. Maybe she should have kept her legs crossed when she met Courtney’s ‘father’ aka sperm donor.
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“I never thought Courtney would do this. I never, never thought,” Courtney Larrell Lockhart’s mother, identified as Catherine Williams, told CNN affiliate WBRL on Saturday.
“But I’m sorry for that family and I’m sorry. I’m just sorry,” she said. “I got nothing else to say. I’m just sorry for the loss of that family.”
Oops, sorry, I’m asleep. It’s the victim who was 18.
Exactly. My Dad served in the Pacific theatre in WWII and it changed him. He didnt go hunting after he got back.
As the daughter of a lifer who served in Viet Nam I have known my share of combat vets in my life. I have never known one to kill anyone, and frankly all seemed like normal well adjusted individuals. I suspect that if you look at stats combat vets are no more likely to kill someone than the public at large.
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He was thug before Iraq, and he’s still a thug. I hope his worthless a$$ gets the needle or the chair.
I don’t have the statistical reference right now, but if you compare statistics for veterans with those of non-veteran men in the same age group, the veterans are *less* likely to commit violent crimes.
Maybe we should be crediting combat with reducing the incidences of violence.
(Just being facetious - there isn’t any proof of causation either way)
I wish I could recall the thread, but somebody here on FR did that calculation a few weeks ago and found the rate for vets is much lower than the general population.
But another said Lockhart seemed like a good kid who mowed his family's lawn and always said hello to her at Wal-Mart.
AND...
Police in Newnan said they had issued a lookout for Lockhart's Sebring after an elderly woman was robbed outside a WalMart just off I-85 near the Coweta County city.
Now we know why he liked the shoppers at Wal-Mart.
My nephew left boot camp and then Iraq about two and half years ago a depressed, mouthy, lazy brat and came back six months ago a happy man with a purpose. Go figure...
However, having served in Vietnam was a very good thing for me, personally. I know far more people who changed for the better after Vietnam than who turned out to be bums because of Vietnam.
For many “bums” (not all) Vietnam was just a socially acceptable excuse for lack of self-discipline and responsibility. Same as the excuse of “I grew up poor”.
As my dear, kindly Drill Instructor (yea, right!) used to say, “Excuses are like [alimentary canal terminal sphincter valves]. Everyone has one and they ALL stink!”
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