(The photos above are from me. I had my digital camera and snapped a few pictures to give everyone an idea of what was going on).
The ongoing story of the killing in my neighborhood took a somewhat "somber" and "softer" tone this evening. As I was leaving the house for the evening I came upon a crowd of people gathering in front of Adrial White's house...
...It turns out it was A Candlelight Vigil for the young man that was killed while trying to break into my neighbor's car this past week . It was held just a few hours ago as of my writing this.
There weren't hundreds of people but some of my neighbors were there as well as reletives and friends of the young man who died, and concerned members of the community as well as various tv stations had camera crew and reporters covering the event.
It started about 545pm and an older gentleman was handing out candles (and though I first refused one) and after thinking about it and realising that this young man Eric was indeed a human being and all people no matter how bad...deserve to rest in peace....I decided to take a candle and stick around for the service.
There was a pastor who prayed for Eric and his family and for the other young man to get better. He also prayed for Adrial White and his family and for the community to come together to stop sensless crimes and utterly sensless killings.
There was song ( a gentleman was playing the guitar) and prayer and all of the people holding their candles on a dark winter night all huddled together made for a somber and heartfelt experience...at least for me.
There was one older lady who started yelling and screaming that the kids got what they deserved and that the White's had already been "scared out of their home" by some other thugs...threats or something..she said.
The pastor tried quieting her and she eventually walked to the background.
Family and friends of Eric offered some thoughts and prayers and some friends of the White's also spoke up and talked about how sensless the whole thing was....the news cameras recording it all.
Everyone for the most part was well behaved..even the young men who were surly friends of Eric's.
Things broke apart about 630pm and everyone dispersed. But before everyone left, the pastor made a plea for all those concerned to come to a luthuren church on tuesday night for a town meeting with the mayor where he will discuss the rise in crime and try to figure out ways to stop all of this from happening.
That is my report for today...
Warm Regards....John
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