..he must have seemed like a threat. What a shame, RIP
Posted on 10/25/2013 6:50:33 PM PDT by NKP_Vet
Four teenagers are being charged with capital murder in the fatal mugging of 87-year-old Lawrence E. 'Shine' Thornton of Greenville, Mississippi.
Shine’ was a World War II veteran and a famous personality in the Delta region for his hot tamales. They were known as ‘Maria’s Famous Hot Tamales’, named after his wife Mary. He was crowned king of the 2012 Delta Hot Tamale Festival.
According to Greenville police, Thornton was killed after being accosted in his own driveway on Oct. 18. He was pushed down and his wallet stolen.
He passed away from his injuries two days later at the University Of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
"Thornton was born in Shaw, MS on November 23, 1925 to William O. and Vera Tollison Thornton. He was a graduate of Greenville High School. He was a veteran of World War II where he served in the Pacific Theater for two years as a Fireman First Class aboard the minesweeper, the USS Herald........Thornton was an active parishioner and communicant of St. Joseph’s Catholic Church and was a Fourth Degree Knight with the Knights of Columbus and a former Grand Knight".
http://mortimerfh.com/CurrentObituary.aspx?did=9171b249-f703-4513-aaa3-221fef02160d
No need to go to the link... what you suspect is true.
God bless and rest his soul. Thank you for your service, Shine...your buddies welcome you home.
Hey, maybe the old dude was trying to sell them some drugs and wouldn’t take no for an answer! /s
I’ve had enough.
Thnks: I figured it.
Shine had a lifelong love of music. He earned his nickname Shine in high school when he began picking out the notes to “You are My Sunshine” during the intermission of a performance. Members of the band started calling him Sunshine and eventually shortened it to Shine. He played the French horn in the Greenville High School Band. He played the bass fiddlein several local bands through the years including the Hot Biscuit Boys, the Burt Taggert Band and the Retreads. He was recently honored at the Mighty Mississippi Music Festival for his lifetime contributions to music in the Delta. Thornton taught himself to play the violin in his late 70’s but also enjoyed learning from others and he loved to study the history of the violin.
thanks
I too have had enough. That is why I changed my car gun to one with greater capacity and slightly more power. Also added an even higher capacity mag for the reload.
I do not intend to be a victim and will do all I can so I will not be.
Yes, we have a class of feral blacks raised by welfare queens and whatever black male happens to be around. THIS is the result of the war on poverty.
..he must have seemed like a threat. What a shame, RIP
Sadly you are right, and those who have tried to leave their uncivilized fellows behind will suffer unjustly.
We traded a poverty of goods for a poverty of soul... bad bargain.
It is not going to end on its own, My FRiend. I don’t have the answer. If one defends themselves from these animals, they get the George Zimmerman treatment from the law, the media, the race baiters, and last but not least, members on this forum. I hope that it never happens to me, but if it does, I will defend my life to the uttermost and so be it.
Poverty of soul, yes.
Frankly, the Democrats did less harm to blacks when they enslaved them on their plantations than they have been doing to them since the time of LBJ, when they started corrupting them, rewarding them for breaking up their families and going on welfare, buying their votes, patting them on the back for their rap music and racism, and all the rest of it.
I wouldn’t choose to be a victim of EITHER Democrat plantation. But it’s better to be oppressed than corrupted.
Why we have a 2nd amendment. The world is not all filled with angels, devils walk among us but the problem is we have certain people in this world who side with the devils and they are winning thanks to subhuman pieces of pig vomit in Washington posing as Republicans.
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