Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Candlelight vigil tonight for dead teen

That is the title of a little blurb in today's Cleveland Plain Dealer.

You have to actually read the story to see how misleading that euphamistic heading is:

There will be a candlelight vigil tonight for Arthur "A.C." Bufurd, the 15-year-old boy who was shot by Damon Wells, who said the boy tried to rob him on his front porch Saturday night.

Wells said Bufurd and another teen aimed a gun at him. Wells, who has a permit to carry a gun, shot Bufurd several times in the chest. The teen died after stumbling away and collapsing on a sidewalk near East 135th Street and Kinsman Road.

Prosecutors decided Monday that Wells, 25, was justified and would not be charged with a crime...


Hmm... let's see if I have this straight:

A criminal pulls a gun on someone during an armed robbery. The victim is able to defend himself from the deadly threat and uses his legal self-defense tool to save his life and stop the attacker.

Now they're holding a candlelight vigil for the dead attacker? Why isn't the community holding a "Thank goodness the robbery victim survived vigil?" Why aren't they holding a "Thank goodness there's one less person threatening murder on our streets vigil?"

Also,

The vigil will begin at 7 p.m. at the intersection where he died.

The deadly attacker was stopped near the front porch of the robbery victim's house. I wonder how comfortable this poor guy is going to feel with the (again assuming) criminal gangbanger's friends congregating on his sidewalk all night.

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