ACTIONS CAUSE REACTIONS - NOT ALWAYS WHAT WE ARE READY FOR

This week was a very tragic one. Without going into so much detail, I only have to say that I have frequented a restaraunt called Gordo's Pizza for many years. This week I was not shocked but saddened that yet another murderous rampage was the only one to hit the front page with victims friends crying for their loved ones. it was another EVERYONE LOST on this one. A club here in Dallas holds Monday nites for the workers who work in restaurants to party there - it is a small pub and after they close often fights break out - i think it is sort of a ritual in fact. People work all week in hot kitchens, they gather together, they drink like there's no tomorrow and in fact there may not be a tommorow for them any more. Well this Monday nite, they partied and one thing led to another - someone bumped into someone - on purpose or accidentally. A beer bottle was thrown hitting one of the someones in the face and causing a bad injury to his face. His friends rushed him to the Hospital and left him there while they took off to 'settle the debt for him'. He had no idea they were off to do that. They took his car, since he was in the hospital and it was a late model white Jaguar with a sunroof. They cruised back to the club and waited for the bottle thrower to leave with his friends. Two guys worked at Gordo's. one was the chef - the other was his helper. In fact they were cousins. They gave a ride to two more guys who were also in their car. As they pulled out of the car the jaguar followed and the shooter raised up out of the sunroof with an SKS ASSAULT RIFLE and pumped fifty or so rounds into the car the bottle throwers were riding in instantly killing the driver, his cousin and one of the two in the back seat and critically injuring the other.

Their car then careened into the bridge crossing a major freeway in downtown dallas Interstate 75 / Central Expressway and crashed with the dead and injured in it. The Jaguar sped away and was found the next morning two blocks from where I live. Our zip code where our old place is is the most dangerous zip code in all of Dallas - 75217. It seems like a sleepy neighborhood but when the sun goes down the arms come out and the wars begin. The car was found there - the search was on for the shooter and driver.

Not surprisingly enough they found the young boy, Mexican, at home watching TV in his mother's house. she was getting grocieries out of the car when the police pulled up and asked her if he was inside. they told her he was a suspect in a murder of three or four people. She said - 'oh no, that couldn't be my son, he's a quiet shy good kid' - well she was right on all of those things but as they entered the house armed to the hilt - he tried to run up and into the attic. They easily caught him and it was over. Now he is in jail with over a $1,000,000 bond and most certainly his future is now looking like the Texas Death Penalty will inject him and kill him for what he has done. And the most ironic thing is that the young man who was the victim of the bottle injury is the one who told the police who was the one who did the murders. They called him at the hospital on his cell phone after the murders and told him 'we took care of those guys who hurt you'. Now one of them is in custody and the other one is on the run. Now the one who told the police on them is now in hiding from his own cousin, afraid now he will kill him.

Where does this senseless tragedy ever end?

Saddened once more, in Dallas