Have you or someone you know...

[kelleigh1]

I know someone who was brutally murdered. I have some amazing memories of the day we met and he had a significant impact on my life. At the time of his murder, we'd been out of touch for over a year, but I still still never forget hearing the news.

I remember being at work, early in the morning when I got an email from a friend that just said that I must be devastated and how sorry she was knowing how much he meant to me. I had no idea what she was talking about as I hadn't seen the news. I did some searching online and just fell apart when I found the story. He was carjacked after leaving a club. He was shot multiple times and then pushed out of his car. But the gunshots didn't kill him. No, that came after he got tangled in the seat belt of the car and then run over. He was only 25 and had his entire future ahead of him. The 5th anniversary of that awful day is next week and it's a day I'll never forget. I just thank God that they caught the b@$^%#@s who did it.

That is the closest I have ever come to brutality. I can't even explain what it does to you when you have to deal with something like that. I felt as though my heart was ripped out. There is an emptiness. It's like nothing you could ever imagine. And I'm sure, that for the victims and the immediate families, it is even worse.

 

[Tink & Goofy]

Me, by about 5 different people including dad and step-mom. My bro and half-sis also had stuff done to them. Mom and first step-mom murdered by dad. That's all I'll say.

There are some evil people in this world. We're all survivors. I am not a victim.

 

[AuntieM03]

When I was little I found a newspaper clipping about a girl being attacked. I asked my mom and she said it was her. She was vague on the details, when she was 17 she was kidnapped and beaten and then dumped on her grandparents lawn. She didn't tell me if she was raped and I never asked. She never really talked about it again, except to say the man was sent to jail. I was only 12 when she died, so we never really had much of a chance to talk about it.

She also mentioned that my aunt (her sister) was kidnapped when she was six and molested. She told me that was why my grandma was overprotective of me. I never heard anything more of it and my aunt has never mentioned it.

 

[RickinNYC]

My closest friend was a victim of a gay bashing and was hospitalized twice as a result of both incidents. First time he was beaten by a group of teenaged guys and was almost unrecognizable when I saw him. I don't know the details about the second occasion.

 

[stinkerbelle's mom]

There was a guy at work that had a great customized van. It was gorgeous and it was his pride and joy. I remember coming to work one day to find out that he'd been killed the night before, someone tried to car jack him and he wouldn't give up his van. He was shot in the stomach and didn't survive. : He left behind a young son and daughter. He died on the day John Lennon was murdered, but years later so I am reminded of his death every year.

 

[MelanieC]

My brother was murdered in 1996 (while at work).

 

[mfd25wife]

A friend of mine lost a daughter in the Westside school shooting 3/24/98 whre 5 were killed and 10 more injured. I knew several injured and their classmates. I knew one shooter. It was just terrible. It had to be the saddest day in history around here and one we will never forget. One paramedic I know that worked it could not be a paramedic after that. I remember we were going through an audit. We are a Canadian held company and one of our auditors who was from Montreal was almost as sad as we were.