Posted on 03/24/2011 11:31:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
ST. PETERSBURG — About a dozen family members and friends, mostly women, were playing cards at a home Wednesday night when someone knocked on the front door.
When Ebony M. Stewart, a 27-year-old mother of two, answered the door about 10:45 p.m. an unidentified man shot her dead, police said.
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After the shooting spree, the suspects took cash from the various purses in the house and left.
Stewart had two children who were staying with a relative at another house.
The suspect with the handgun was described as black, 20 to 24 years old, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and 150 pounds. He had close-cropped black hair and was wearing a red shirt, a red hat and plaid shorts.
The second man was described as black, 5 feet 10 to 6 feet 1 and 180 pounds. He had shoulder-length dreadlocks and was wearing a blue hat, blue shirt and blue shorts.
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Neighbor Altamease Simpson, 50, said she and many other neighbors were close to Stewart's family. She said they frequently get together for barbecues.
"It just don't make any sense," she said.
Simpson said she was in her apartment behind the 19th Street home when she heard gunshots. A woman climbed out the window of the home and ran to her door, yelling for her to open it. She said she didn't want to open it and called the police.
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Simpson said she hurt for Stewart's two young children.
"Two little children. Their mother's dead. Two little children," she said, puffing on a cigarette. "Some people are so sick, sick. Sick in their heads."
I was reading this, thinking how interesting they gave the race of the suspects because so often the media neglects to use the word "black" when describing suspects, then got to the "puffing on a cigarette" part and stopped cold. Amazing.
Because of course, that's the REAL crime.
So ... uhhhhhh ... the kids are staying with Dad now? [/s]
The crime capital of Southwest Florida...Drugs and guns...three police officers have been killed in the last few months..
Describing the suspect is OK when his victims were of like ethnicity.
It makes perfect sense. The perps wanted money and had no regard for the rights of others.
The Dads are the criminals..and druggies
Yes, the awful, nasty smoking witness. The 2 motherless children were lucky they weren't exposed to second hand smoke.
I guess black on black crime in a Democrat inner city slum isn't colorful enough. It certainly isn't news. That is the real crime.
I get it. The reporter was just trying to give us a visual. Set the scene, if you will. I have a vision of a woman shaking and bringing the smoke up to her mouth looking around being unable to concentrate. I kind of enjoy it.
Just a low probability of it being their random daddy though
I graduated from Boca Ciega High School back in the sixties. I different time, a different world.
I don’t get it either - I was thinking they were going to describe a witness that could have stepped in to help but instead stood smoking, as if casually - but that isn’t the story at all. Odd.
Yep.
The “puffing on a cigarette” description was added to convey to the reader a visual of thoughtful contemplation and sage wisdom on the part of the witness, and resigned hopelessness in a mean, mean world.
Sigh.
You probably meant “the Dads”, not Dad.
I’m a Bogie grad, too! It was a great school at one time.
Oh. That went right over my head.
I guess I’m just too sensitive, or would that be, not sensitive enough? It’s just so hard to get it right these days.
BTW, I just took a minute to read the comments on that story — big hub-bub about the fact the perps were black and that when people commenting on a story call whites “red-neck” or “white trash,” that doesn’t rise to the level of being called “black.”
Someone pointed out that it is impossible to use any other descriptive word for black due to the pc police. An interesting point. I think the pc police have caused another problem.
Who? (I’m 34.)
Nah. They wanted to keep them together.
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