Monday, October 8, 2007

Kellye Harkey

National:
A small town in northern Wisconsin awoke to grief and questions Monday, a day after an off-duty sheriff's deputy shot and killed six people at an early-morning party. A seventh person at the party was critically injured in the shooting. The shooter 20 was killed by a police SWAT team Sunday afternoon, according to the town's mayor. The dead and wounded were all students or graduates of Crandon High School. The gunman, Forest County Sheriff's Deputy Tyler Peterson was a graduate of the school which has a little more than 300 students. Friends of the victims said Peterson who also worked part time as a Crandon police officer stormed into the home where the party was going on at about 2:45 a.m. Sunday and opened fire.A SWAT team shot and killed Peterson later Sunday said Crandon Mayor Gary Bradley. "When they found him he had a hostage and the SWAT team got him Bradley told CNN.

Opinion: This is such a sad story. It makes me sad because you are supposed to be able to trust police officers and that they will not hurt you intentionally. This man is the kind of person that makes cops look bad and that makes people not like cops. There was something obviously wrong with this man and I dont really like to say this but Im glad that he was shot and killed. You cant just go around and kill 6 kids and expect to get away with it, unless your name is OJ of course.

National:
It's now been more than six years since foster child Rilya Wilson went missing, a disappearance that led to a shakeup at Florida's child welfare agency and murder charges against the little girl's former caretaker.Rilya's body has never been found and there's little physical evidence against the woman accused of abusing and killing her, 61 yr old Geralyn Graham.Police dug up Graham's backyard looking for clues. They treated rooms in her house with a substance that reveals hidden traces of blood. They searched the house from top to bottom more than once."I found absolutely nothing," Miami-Dade County homicide detective Sara Times said in a court deposition. Graham, who maintains her innocence, is being held on $250,000 bond after completing a sentence on an unrelated motor vehicle fraud conviction. Her attorney, Michael Matters, said he expects prosecutors to seek the death penalty in Rilya's death.

Opinion: Well I do watch alot of Law and Order and I have come to find that this would not last in their court. I think that people want someone to be guilty so bad that they will take what they can get. This lady could of done it but there is only circumstantial evidence against her. I really think people just want the closure and want someone to be guilty. If this lady is found guilty then she should get the death penalty and I wont feel bad about it.

1 comment:

PC AP Gov said...

HAPPY BiRTHDAY!!!!!!