My 21 year old son rents a home in the college area of our home town - he and 5 friends rent a wonderful victorian house that has 6 bedrooms - all with fireplaces. However like many areas of old homes - it is close to a bad area of town - in October the boys were robbed in their back yard at gun point the two thieves fired four shots - no one was injured - but it changed their lives. Much to NO NO NO from the parents the boys purchased a gun for protection. On Dec 12 one of the boys was handling the gun - and it went off - the bullet entered his neck and exited the back of his head - the other boys were sitting there when it happened. They did all the could for this young man - He died on the way to the hospital. All of the boys present in the house were arrested and taken by the police to be questioned and then the police took the boys to the hospital but it was too late for them to see their friend- the staff thought it best for them not to see him. They buried their best friend a week before Christmas.

This was my son’s best friend he held him while he was dying- my son is a mess. We have already started him seeing a specialist and he is taking some medication to help.He has lost so much - every time he does something he misses this boy - they were always together.


And to top it all off - the police closed the robbery case and said - robberies happen all the time - we only catch about 1% of the criminals -