Apparent Grand Rapids road rage victim pinned against car as children watched

Michaelia Clark of Grand Rapids Michigan was caught in a bad road rage that left her with a broken pelvis.  The other driver pinned her between the two cars which broke her pelvis.  When he backed away she fell. Lying on the ground she looked up only to see the reverse lights on. She expected the driver to run her over as she yelled at her 7 year-old to get back in the car.  Just then neighbors who  witnessed the event came rushing out to save Michaelia.  The driver then sped away with his young child in the back seat.  The neighbors called 911 and an ambulance brought Michaelia to the hospital.The police are still trying to find the driver who hit Michaelia, and the have very few leads.   The police believe that the man intently hit Michaelia.  It all started when the man hit michaelia repediately and Michaelia got out of her car to ask what the man was doing. The man then got angrier and when Michaelia told him he weas going to jail he pinned her between the two cars.  Michaelia noticed a young child in theback seat through the broken windows as she was falling over.I think this kind of violence is crazy.  People shouldn’t get mad enough to hit some one and almost run them over, they shouldn’t even hit the other person’s car.  Yet in our society we have people like that.  I really can’t imagine what it must have been like for the kids.  i would hate to see something like that happen. I also don’t understand how you can get mad enough to almost run some one over  or hit their car multiple times.  If the police catch this man i definitely think he should go to jail.  By almost running her over he can be charged with attempted murder which has a penalty equal to murder, and i think he should be charged with attempted murder.  http://www.mlive.com/news/index.ssf/2008/03/apparent_grand_rapids_road_rag.html                                                Tim Larson 

Teens charged with shaving, clubbing disabled woman

In Cincinnati, Ohio, Cheyenne Blanton, 17, and Joseph Nagle, 16were arraigned Monday on juvenile delinquency charges that include aggravated burglary, aggravated robbery, kidnapping, felonious assault and vandalism, according to juvenile court officials. The two teenagers spent more than six hours torturing Ashley Clark, an 18-year old disabled woman after her mother left in the morning. They tied her up, clubbed her, kicked her, shaved her head and soaked her with water before making her walk barefoot outside in the snow. Investigators said that they also ignored pleas from the woman, who had undergone brain surgery, not to hit her in the head.

According to The Associated Press, Sheila Clark, the disabled womans mother, want the teenagers tried as adults, and Jones said the two could get 75 years to life in prison if tried and convicted as adults. “I want full justice for my daughter,” Clark said Monday. “Those two never need to walk the streets again.” She also said “I can’t understand how anyone could do this to anyone, but especially to someone with such a beautiful, loving heart.”

Butler County Sheriff Richard Jones said the teenagers hid overnight in the basement of the Clark home, intending to steal the car and leave town before an upcoming juvenile court appearance date for one of the suspects.

I think that this is just a ridiculous case and I feel that the two teenagers should be charged as adults, even though they are under the age of 18. Clearly if they are charged as delinquents it will have an extremely lighter effect on them than going to jail would. These two where already ‘running from the law’ and who says they won’t do it again the second they get out of juvie? I may be wrong but it seems that if you go to juvie it doesn’t really mean that you will never do anything wrong again. Same goes for jail, but i think that they are already used to going to juvenile hall and won’t mind going a few more times. I feel that they should have an adult sentence, but not as severe as 75+ years, something a lot lighter would be fine. I think they just need to be shown how life in jail is, so that maybe it will make them not want to ever go there again.

 -Taylor Hyink

Man killed in Wendy’s shooting, went back for child’s toy.

As we all know there is a lot of violence in america. This is just another example of all the problem this country has with crime and how random and pointless it can be.   In west Palm beach florida, Rafael Vazquez, a fire rescue lieutenant, was shot and killed in a random shooting. When Rafael went back inside the Wendy’s to get a toy for his daughter a 60 year old man came out of the bathroom and shot him.  The man then continued to shoot other people in the building.  After hitting four people with a 9-mm he shot and killed himself.  The shooting seems to be random and police can not figure out why it occurred.  The four others who were injured were a 63 year old man, a 62 year old woman, a 16 year old girl, and the 16 year old’s mom, who was not hit but was injured while fleeing.   Wendy’s is helping all they can with the investigation and offers their thoughts and prayers to the families. Police have not found a suicide note and the shooter was not a former employee which makes it very hard for investigators to figure out the cause. I can not believe what it must be like for the family who lost some one.  This story shows just how bad America can get.  We hear lots of stories in the news about how bad some of the other countries are, but we don’t hear how much violence there is here, where we live.  Shootings like these are becoming more and more common, this sounds really bad but its almost like they are becoming a regular occurrence.  And of course we aren’t hearing about all the gang related shootings that happen, probably multiple times, everyday.  I think we should be focusing more on stopping  shootings like this than fixing other countries problems.  Maybe when we dramatically reduce violence like this we can help other countries. the only difference between the U.S and other countries is that we don’t usually worry about losing some one special to us everyday, when it is almost just as likely to happen here as in other countries. http://www.wpbf.com/news/15474521/detail.html  Tim Larson