Cherry, that’s fine.
Its obvious that something horrible happened. But I will reserve judgement until more information is brought out.
And, I am not painting a picture of a nice guy. I know Sean, and I knew Zach, and I would never have imagined Sean being involved in a violent crime. Zach’s best friend was the Tarell dude, I knew Arthur by reputation, and I don’t know Jason at all.
However, you stating that it would have been someone else they would have attacked, if not for Zach, is way off-base. Sean, prior to this, had only DUI’s on his record, which is horrible, but no violent crimes ever, prior to this one, on record. Arthur, prior to this, has never been to jail. Tarrel, prior to this, has no record. Only Jason, I’m not sure of.
Nothing from this group of people would have ever indicated they ever intended to do something violent, no prior record.
The only thing I agree with you on, is that they need to be in jail. I will say this; If it comes out that they did this with malice, I will have no issue with them reaping what they sow. However, friends of all the concerned are painting a different picture of what happened, and since I know most of the involved, I am not willing to make this a race issue, at this point.