Standard murder: One suspect in custody, three more to go
May 8, 2009 at 5:46 pm by Scott Henry in News
Jonathan Redding
Two days after the shooting death of Standard bartender John Henderson, one of the teen suspects in that crime was also involved in an attempted home invasion, Atlanta police say — but he and his fellow perps picked the wrong home to invade.
The owners of the Southwest Atlanta home opened fire with an AK-47 and a gun battle ensued in which 17-year-old Jonathan Redding was wounded in the shoulder and his 9mm Smith & Wesson was shot from his hand.
It’s Redding’s handgun, as well as blood he left at the scene of the second robbery, that eventually led police to link him to Henderson’s Jan. 7 murder, as well as the Dec. 21 armed mugging of another Standard bartender, Robin McMillan.
Police arrested Redding in Mechanicsville on April 10 after a DNA match made him a suspect in the home invasion, but they had to wait for ballistic tests to confirm that his Smith & Wesson had also been fired in the Standard the night of Henderson’s killing.
Redding remained in custody, but wasn’t charged with murder until Thursday, when McMillan ID’d the teen as one of the men who’d robbed him at gunpoint, says Lt. Keith Meadows, who heads Atlanta’s homicide division.
“We needed to show that Redding was in possession of the firearm before, during and after the killing in order to remove reasonable doubt” of his involvement, Meadows explains.
The Smith & Wesson used by Redding was traced to a construction worker who had it stolen from his car when it was parked in Mechanicsville in 2006, according to police.
When McMillan was mugged, his robbers fired a shot at him as they fled the scene, hitting his car. A shell casing recovered from the Standard parking lot showed the bullet had come from Redding’s gun, Meadows says.
McMillan quietly sat behind reporters during Friday’s press conference at APD headquarters. A few seats down, Kyle Keyser, founder of Atlantans Together Against Crime, typed away on a laptop, tweeting updates to his group’s many followers.
While an arrest in the Henderson murder presents reason for cautious celebration, police still haven’t identified the three other suspects.
“We’re not done yet,” Police Chief Richard Pennington announced. “We’ve not arrested the other individuals who were involved.”
Although Redding has a criminal history, the details can’t be made public because he was a juvenile at the time. Police have reason to believe he was involved with a local street gang known as 30 Deep — his mugshot shows a “30” tattooed on his right cheek — but haven’t determined whether he was a gang member. The gang, which Meadows says has been linked to variety of property crimes, even has its own MySpace page with photos of teen boys flashing hand signs and fanning handfuls of bills.
If Redding is a gang member, it may be difficult to persuade him to snitch on his crew, despite the prison time he faces from his 22 felony charges, including aggravated assault, armed robbery and murder. But the $50,000 in reward money still awaits any future tipsters.
“We need folks to identify the suspect’s running buddies,” Pennington said. “He hasn’t exactly been forthcoming.”
(Photo courtesy Fulton County Jail)
May 8th, 2009 at 6:16 pm
I’m glad you linked to the MySpace page. I’ve spent the past hour or so looking through 30 Deep and MBG (Mechanicsville Bird Gang) MySpace pages. It’s astonishingly grim. It makes The Wire seem jaunty.
May 9th, 2009 at 8:48 am
I was also looking online at 30 Deep webpages, and it seems that there was a George Kerry “Keon” Redding who was arrested on attempted murder charges in Oct. of 2007. It seems that Keon Redding was/is from the Mechanicsville area. Could they be related?
May 9th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
Does any one have the address of where he was arrested or his home address. I would love to see if the mother is on assisted living. If so I think the Atlanta housing authority should do something with mothers living arrangements if she is negligent. I hope there are no other kids in this family.
May 9th, 2009 at 8:30 pm
The best part of this story, besides of course the capture of the thug, is the use of AK-47 against armed gangsters. I bet the homeowner parked behind kitchen bar and just hosed the mothers as they were jacking the door. The “kid” is lucky to be alive.
Andy, if you still live in SWAT, you might want to upgrade to an assault rifle.
May 10th, 2009 at 3:32 am
Can we just go ahead and hunt these animals down and shoot them in the streets? Do we need anymore evidence? Let’s just snuff these fucks out.
May 10th, 2009 at 6:16 am
Animals? These people are human. They might have done horrible things, but we have to remember that. When we file them away in a prison, they DO get out. Instead of looking for punitive measures against the parents, how about thinking about what ways to HELP these parents raise kids that didn’t ask to be raised in the situations they grew up in? True, they are not necessarily our responsibility but we DO share a community with people who have unique challenges. Wiping away the projects doesn’t get rid of that.
The best thing any of us could do is find a way to help these kids before they are too far gone to listen to reason.
That’s helping pregant teen mothers or at-risk mothers and having a program stick with them like the Harlem Children’s Zone is doing where they’ve turned potential gang members into Graduate School students.
It might be too late for kids over the age of say 6 or 7, but we can still get to the younger ones. Give time to WonderRoot, or The Youth Art Connection.
Give time to the boyscouts, local kid-league sport teams.
you can’t simply build a fence and arm yourself and think the problem will go away.
They’ll just come back with bigger weapons, and be even MORE brash.
Your fence doesn’t fill their stomachs. Unlike they’d LIKE for you to think, MOST of these kids are flat broke CHASING money with no skills, no hope and that’s why they are out there robbing us.
May 10th, 2009 at 12:58 pm
Dear hot-tub-
Please check your browser — I believe you meant to post your comment at http://www.americannaziparty.com/
May 10th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
You can tell me I’m a nazi. That’s fine. You can call this waste of space a human too. All I know for sure is that this fuck killed my friend and coworker, and I strongly support an eye for an eye. I’d like to put 3 bullets between his.
May 10th, 2009 at 2:31 pm
hot-tub, you didn’t say “My friend was killed and I want an eye-for-eye.”
To that, I say that I’m very sorry for loss and can relate strongly to the anger you feel.
But you didn’t say that.
You suggested hunting human beings as if they’re rabid dogs.
And no, you don’t know for sure this person killed anyone. He’s been charged and the evidence summarized by police is compelling.
May 10th, 2009 at 4:59 pm
Well, I certainly don’t think these guys can be considered human at this point.
My understanding of a human is that they are thinking, feeling lumps of flesh with emotions and an understanding of basic consequences. These guys only care about themselves.
So, with that said, I think Old Yeller would have more compassion towards the end of his rabid life.
May 11th, 2009 at 5:31 am
i tend to have low expectations for people with facial tattoos. this is no exception. If he did it (which i’m sure the evidence will show he did) he can fucking rot.
by the way, i’m going to start twitter feed detailing my illegal acts. stay tuned
May 11th, 2009 at 6:30 am
Dominick,
You can buy the parents a book on how to give better hugs, but at some point individuals have to be accountable for their own actions.
What these kids did is terrible and they need to be put away for it.
Perhaps you should visit more third-world countries where people have very little and still don’t find it necesary to rob, steal and kill.
You can’t tell me that this 17 year old lived a life any where near as bad as a kid in Cambodia (where crime is low, by the way). It was his choice to do the crimes and he’s going to have to pay for it. Whether or not his mommy gave him cookies and milk at night has little to do with the subject at hand. Save the social rhetoric for the tourists.
To everyone else,
Nice work APD in staying on this and nice work citizens of SE Atlanta for sticking up for decent people and refusing to accept crime in our neighborhoods.
Lastly, I hope that the Myspace page receives its due. It’s a celebration of ignorance, plain and simple. Please help me out here.
May 11th, 2009 at 9:20 am
FaceKick wins – call it profiling but i’m guessing there’s strong correlation between facial tattoos and criminal activity. Regardless of whether this kid pulled the trigger on John Henderson, he pulled it on another bartender in December and a homeowner on Jan. 9 and for that, as FaceKick says, he can fucking rot.
May 11th, 2009 at 10:03 am
A Fella In Grant Park-
A book on how to give “better hugs” is a cute talking point, but nothing Dominick wrote suggests people should not be held accountable for their actions.
He’s just pointing out that tax-funded social work from ages 0-17 might be money better spent than than tax-funded police, court, prisons from ages 17-75.
Dangerous people should be put being bars. No discussion. But let’s also talk about how its possible to produce fewer dangerous people in the first place.
May 11th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
Let’s start with the education system. It’s hard to bypass quick money for a lot of young people growing up in urban areas. All bets are off without a good school system.
May 11th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
What’s with all the people blamming the education system for this kind of activities; robbing, stealing and killing.
What about all the other thousands of kids that went to Carver High School (where many Mechanicsville kids go) and work their butts off to get a better education and life?
Quit blaming society and start blaming the individuals that CHOSE to commit needless crimes. Society doesn’t raise a child, his/her family does.
I think by blaming school systems you actually do a dis-service to all the smart and hard working kids of Mechanicsville and any other area where people work to improve their lives themselves.
This kid was a wannabe gangster punk. Spending more money on his school wouldn’t have changed that fact.
May 11th, 2009 at 5:02 pm
You’re right that you just can’t blame the schools. However, I believe the school system is a big part of the equation. Take away the opportunity to better yourself and you’re left with few choices.
May 11th, 2009 at 5:09 pm
Okay, Andy, let’s talk about “how its possible to produce fewer dangerous people in the first place.”
Andy, since you’re sticking up for Dominick, I wonder if you agree with his belief that these people are robbing and killing because they are “flat broke” and just trying to “fill their stomachs”?
If that’s the defense Dominick is going to use, I want to know if you believe that. Because we’re talking about the problems of inner-city violence, and if certain people want to state reasons as to why they think young men are committing violent acts, we need to know if what they say may actually be true.
May 11th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
I agree with Jay.
I just returned from a week in Cambodia, where people really are flat broke and trying to fill their stomachs, yet at the same time the rate of violent (and even petty) crime in Cambodia is extremely low. People leave their cars unlocked and sleep with their doors open.
Now, benchmark that against this punk in the US and tell me just how he’s not completely accountable for the CHOICE THAT HE MADE of his own accord. He wasn’t starving. He was a selfish, theiving, trifling little snot, trying to live some kind of fantasy thug life.
Perhaps the people out there who blame society for these homicidal types should visit the third world to compare how others who are less fortunate on the planet act. Get out and see the world, then tell me this piece of trash somehow isn’t the source of his own poor decisions.
Stop making excuses for bad behaviour. It’s not the government’s job to teach parenthood to lazy shiftless types. Making excuses only let’s the annoying cycle continue further.
May 12th, 2009 at 4:15 am
Andisheh,
Whey don’t you join the Catholic clergy and start a hug a murderer thug program until we get the streets cleaned up.
Human life in Macon & Bibb County is currently valued at six years.
Hope you guys fare better with this trial.
May 12th, 2009 at 9:39 am
This is not a black and white issue. Obviously better eduactaion and a better upbringing would help the situation. If that was not true then there would be more robberies like this in the burbs. But people also have to be held accountable for their actions. It is a shame that so many people have failed this kid but he is still now a suspected murderer. He needs to now spend the rest of his life in prison. His life is over. To just sentance him and ignore what is going on in the inner cities with these kids just makes the problem worse. But so does slapping them on the wrist.
May 12th, 2009 at 10:20 am
I just love the influence of the so-called “hip hop” culture, don’t you?
May 12th, 2009 at 10:39 am
I always have such a hard time blaming music in any situation. I listened to nothing but death/thrash metal when i was 17. I listened to GG Alin records and all matters of disgusting punk rock for most of my life. The worst thing to come out of it is an ill adivised home made inverted cross tattoo on my shoulder that has since faded away. (thank god). But hip hop seems to be a little different. Its alot easier to emulate a drug dealing rapper than it is to become the serial killers that Cannible Corpse claim to be.
May 12th, 2009 at 10:46 am
It is more than the music. It is the blatant idol-worship of criminals and criminal behaviour that is embraced by the more hard-core of the genre.
I don’t want to bring personal lives into a public discussion, but those things can be overcome by appropriate parenting, community values and role models.
May 12th, 2009 at 1:03 pm
I think the Myspace page is funny. Shows how smart these “hard thugs” are, by posting pictures and crap about themselves with signs and names, and guns waving.
I’m glad they’ve found the piece of trash, and hopefully they’ll find more who committed this heinous act.
As far as my view.. Those who think spending more tax money on wasteful social programs will stop young criminals needs to wake up. Show me how it works in a real life basis, or any long term program? Blaming the situations, and the lack of money is pointless. I was poor growing up. I didn’t complete college because I couldn’t afford it on my own. But I do have my education now, I do have a job, a family, and every necessity that ones needs to prosper and live. I never got help from some liberal socialistic program.
The feel good hugs, and “winner” attitudes people want to impart on those they feel are challenged, need to wake up. That kid doesn’t need to be in some after school program to keep him off the street. He doesn’t need your pity. He just wants you fucking money, and now. When you give someone everything, they work for nothing. Walking to the mail box and getting your monthly check, doesn’t constitute “work”. Children emulate their parents to a degree..
Maybe locking up parents and family for juvi-crimes would be a good idea? Maybe the parents would take a stronger role in their lives if their neck was on the line.
It’s parenting, and families. Those are the ones who let their children down. I don’t need to pay for someone to learn how to parent. Especially when the parents are probably in the same boat as the youngsters running around robbing people. Spending money to stop, deter, incarcerate, and ultimately put to death, people who think crime like this flies, will ultimately stop people from following this thug lifestyle.
For what it’s worth, I wouldn’t bat an eye lash if one of these kid thugs tried to rob me.. There certainly would be more pictures of them in caskets and RIP pictures on their websites.. Maybe when they are only “A Few Deep” will they learn the lesson.
May 12th, 2009 at 10:51 pm
Good luck with the treating human beings like an animal and thinking locking them up alone is going to help.
It won’t. Do we need to put away violent offenders? Yes. I don’t think there is a better option at this time in THIS country. But at some point we have to address the situation with the kids at a younger age.
Far too many go to school just enough to allow them to run the streets and fall into these lifestyles.
If you really want to use Carver highschool or any intown community south of Midtown’s public schools as an example of helping kids get a leg up, you’ve got to be kidding.
Some of those schools still use 486 and pentium computers.
If the kids aren’t being trained to be ready for college or a trade when they leave, the only trade willing to train them is crime.
And crime is always recruiting. They have to. We lock up the suspects we catch.
May 12th, 2009 at 11:44 pm
I guess Andy doesn’t want to talk after all. It appears like offering to have a dialog about inner-city crime was just a tactic he used to make him seem serious and reasonable. However, I’d still really love to know if, like Dominick, he thinks these young men like Jonathan Redding commit crimes because they’re “flat broke” and just want to “fill their stomachs.”
And Andy, whenever you’re ready to stop calling people Nazis and actually want to “talk about how its possible to produce fewer dangerous people in the first place,” I’m ready and waiting.
May 12th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
And FireBrand, if that’s you Dominick, please enlighten us on why you think a poor, hungry teenager or twentysomething has to resort to violence against other humans?
May 13th, 2009 at 2:35 pm
Sorry, I was sidetracked yesterday with other stuff.
The Nazi comment was directed at commenter “hot-tub” who suggested extra-judicial mass murder of so-called sub-humans as a solution to crime.
Sorry to hurt anyone’s heart, but that’s every bit as Nazi as goose-stepping into Poland. I will never apologize for being disgusted by people who utter that kind of nonsense.
As for the other stuff, I’m not Social Worker-in-Chief. I don’t know the solution to this problem.
I am, however, sick of so-called “tough on crime” people who attempt to shout-down as “hug-therapists” anyone who suggests that lowering crime is more complicated that police and jails.
May 14th, 2009 at 12:02 am
So you felt it was important to respond to hot-tub for his extreme views and call him Nazi. I doubt that was the first time you’ve ever seen someone so upset by a criminal act that they wanted to exact vengance. But you needed to interject and remind people to be reasonable. Why that’s such a serious and mature thing to do. You even said we should “talk about how its possible to produce fewer dangerous people in the first place.” However, when I asked you to have a discussion about inner-city crime, all of sudden you’re “not Social Worker-in-Chief,” and you “don’t know the solution to this problem.” It’s not difficult to call out people with extreme views. You’ve already made somewhat of a career out of it. But if all the so-called serious and reasonable people do is call out those with extreme views and even get a laugh out of it all, that does nothing to solve the problem. I could have just as easily ridiculed Dominick for his idea that someone like Jonathan Redding committed all these crimes because he wanted to fill his stomach. But I didn’t. I asked if he really believed that, and I asked the same thing of you, and neither of you responded. It’s easy to act serious and reasonable and call for a discussion about inner-city crime, but the hard part is having an actual talk in which some of your cherished ideas may be proven wrong.
May 14th, 2009 at 8:41 am
Or he or others have something better to do than to respond at breakneck speed to the questions of a condescending blowhard. Anyone that thinks their side in a matter like this is 100% correct is either extremely short sighted or just plain dumb.
May 14th, 2009 at 11:23 pm
Adam, why are you defending Andy and Dominick? Andy is the one who wanted to “talk about how its possible to produce fewer dangerous people in the first place.” All I did was respond to his request and say I was willing to engage in a conversation about inner-city crime. I never asked for him to reply at breakneck speed, but way to exaggerate Adam.
So I’m a condescending blowhard? I guess it takes one to know one.
And I never said I’m 100% correct, but I suppose you have to believe that I think I am. It’s always makes it easier to fire off a quick post with no point when you don’t actually debate the substance of an argument.
May 15th, 2009 at 9:47 am
Jay,
I don’t mean this to sound rude, but it’s not clear to me from what you’ve written what exactly it is you want to talk about out that isn’t already being talked about.
May 16th, 2009 at 7:20 pm
I’m not going to suggest any other solution than harsh punishment.
It should be pretty damn easy to figure out why gangs seek out young kids. They don’t do the time that fits the crime.
When I was 17, I was robbed at gunpoint, pistol-whipped and my friend was shot during a robbery at my work. The 3 kids that did it were all 16. They all came from southwest Atlanta. They were in gangs. They all had previous records. They robbed a total of 11 places before being caught. They sent 3 people to the hospital, 2 with gunshot wounds. They each served less than a year. This was 12 years ago.
Nothing has changed.
Let’s lock them up for a long time when they’re first caught. We have pot-smokers serving longer sentences then these “young men”. That disgusts me.
May 17th, 2009 at 2:52 am
Andy, you are the person who called out some of the other commenters here for their extremist views, and you said, “let’s also talk about how its possible to produce fewer dangerous people in the first place.”
I assumed that meant you were genuinely interested in discussing what options we have for preventing crime. So I started off by asking you if you believed what Dominick wrote that these “kids” are robbing and killing people because they are “flat broke” and just trying to “fill their stomachs.”
You never answered that question. In fact, instead of talking about solutions to crime other than jail and shooting down thugs on the street, you replied, “I’m not Social Worker-in-Chief. I don’t know the solution to this problem.” Why call for a dialog but then say you have no idea how to fix anything?
I don’t think we should gun down people we think, or even know, committed crimes, because that is against the law. Respect for the law is the same reason, though, that I think these people that rob, rape, and kill should be put in jail for a long time, sometimes forever. Jail is punishment, not a socio-economic magic machine that will correct a person’s faults and give society back a reformed individual. A person makes the choice on their own to change their behavior. And it doesn’t take lots of money, programs or people to help a person to change.
Since crime won’t stop overnight, we have to keep spending money for police, courts and prisons. So since we can’t just shift that money to your “tax-funded social work” for kids and teenagers, what kinds of programs for youngsters do you think are worthy of more funding?
June 9th, 2009 at 2:08 pm
man i say fuck yall 30 deep for life are reath we all we got.
FREE G-DOG
June 9th, 2009 at 3:44 pm
“man i say fuck yall 30 deep for life are reath we all we got.
FREE G-DOG”
It’s times like these when I wish I had Barbara Billingsley’s cell number.
July 14th, 2009 at 6:02 pm
MAN CLEARLY IT IS WHAT IT IS! NOT SAYING ITS RIGHT WHAT LIL G-DOGG DID BUT SHID THE YOUNG NIGGA GOTTA EAT! ITS A RECESSION AND WE AINT STRESSING! THEM BOYS JUST WANTED TO FEED THEY FAMILY! THEY WASNT BORN WITH SILVER SPOONS IN THEIR MOUTH AND THEY AINT TRYNA WORK U CAN BLAME ON THEY PARENT THEY A PRODUCT OF THEY ENVIROMENT AND IF THE POLICE AND THE PPL WHO COMMENTED HELP FIXED UP MECHANICSVILLE THEY WOULDNT HAVE TO “GO HARD” LIKE THEY DO YALL THINK THESE YOUNG NIGGAS SOMETHING SERIOUS? GO TO NEW ORLEANS OR PHILLY THEY AINT ALL THAT HARD CAUSE THEM NIGGAS GO UP ON YA ASS! AND WHOEVER LINKED THAT MYSPACE THATS A LITTLE BOY HE AINT DOWN WITH THEM FOLKS CAUSE A REAL :THUG: DNT HAVE TIME FOR MYSPACE CAUSE HE MAKIN THIS ROUNDS! AND TO THE MAN WHO SAY JOHN WAS HIS FRIEND WELL RIP JOHN BUT THEM BOYS NOT ANIMALS SHID LIL NIGGA GON TAKE THAT TIME AND EAT THAT SHIT!
July 14th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
I’ll try to translate as best I can.
MAN CLEARLY IT IS WHAT IT IS!
Que sera, sera.
NOT SAYING ITS RIGHT WHAT LIL G-DOGG DID BUT SHID THE YOUNG NIGGA GOTTA EAT!
I will not endeavor to justify what Master Redding did, but perhaps he was merely hungry.
ITS A RECESSION AND WE AINT STRESSING!
As I process the daily deluge of information on CNBC, I am calmed by the realization that I have chosen a relatively recession-proof career path.
THEM BOYS JUST WANTED TO FEED THEY FAMILY!
They were making their way the best way they know how. And that’s just a little bit more than the law will allow.
THEY WASNT BORN WITH SILVER SPOONS IN THEIR MOUTH AND THEY AINT TRYNA WORK U CAN BLAME ON THEY PARENT THEY A PRODUCT OF THEY ENVIROMENT AND IF THE POLICE AND THE PPL WHO COMMENTED HELP FIXED UP MECHANICSVILLE THEY WOULDNT HAVE TO “GO HARD” LIKE THEY DO
Do you really suppose that Master Redding and his chums are the culpable individuals here? I beg to differ. I blame the parents. Nay, I blame the police who have failed to clean up our little hamlet by arresting all of the townspeople who have had a negative influence on Master Redding and his ilk. And you, critical commenters: I blame you most of all.
YALL THINK THESE YOUNG NIGGAS SOMETHING SERIOUS? GO TO NEW ORLEANS OR PHILLY THEY AINT ALL THAT HARD CAUSE THEM NIGGAS GO UP ON YA ASS!
Having said that, I hasten to add that the Atlanta is a veritable Pleasantville compared to cities like New Orleans or Philadelphia.
AND WHOEVER LINKED THAT MYSPACE THATS A LITTLE BOY HE AINT DOWN WITH THEM FOLKS CAUSE A REAL :THUG: DNT HAVE TIME FOR MYSPACE CAUSE HE MAKIN THIS ROUNDS!
I for one am deeply offended by those who would seek to bask in the glory of this particular association’s tales of derring-do when they have not personally participated. For shame.
AND TO THE MAN WHO SAY JOHN WAS HIS FRIEND WELL RIP JOHN BUT THEM BOYS NOT ANIMALS SHID LIL NIGGA GON TAKE THAT TIME AND EAT THAT SHIT!
[Even I can't make any sense out of this. It appears to be gibberish. Sorry.]
July 20th, 2009 at 4:27 pm
If the children of Mechanicsville spent half as much energy on the books and getting a job you wouldn’t be living in Ware estates and missing the McDaniel Glen projects they tore down.
You think carrying a gun makes you a man? Getting a job, supporting your children and loving your community makes you a man.
Get out of my neighborhood.
September 25th, 2009 at 3:27 pm
man fuck all yall my baby aint do none and he innocent until proven guilty bitches.. n ima hold him down regardless of how much time they tryna give him.. FUCK WHAT YALL TALKIN BOUT… U GOT 2 GET IT HOW U LIVE.. HE IS NOT A BAD PERSON N EVERY BODY PRAY HE BEAT DHAT CASE ON OCTOBER 23… I LONE U LIL GDOG
September 25th, 2009 at 3:36 pm
@ mrs_gdog, u go ahead and hold lil gdog down so the rest of us can get a few kicks in before locking this thug up for what he’s done.
have a blessed day!
October 1st, 2009 at 12:26 am
All I can say follows below:
1) Whereas I, as a Christian, believe in forgiveness, this endlessly inane victimhood attitude shown here by our Zone 3 friends makes my blood boil with rage for these TRULY INNOCENT members of society and citizens of our battered city of Atlanta, who are dead from this Earth. If you believe for one singularity of time that the world should be moved to sympathy, despite the heinous act of devil-appeasing evil here referenced, because this fellow didn’t grow up wealthy, you’re in for disappointment.
My grandmother was born in 1932, 30 months after our nation’s worst financial catastrophe began (yes, the Depression was even greater than this thing now). Her family couldn’t afford so much as a tube of toothpaste, which is why I remember my Nana with such poor teeth. She NEVER resorted to pilfering and maiming to get richer, because she was a woman with a decent grounding of right versus wrong in her mind and soul. Why should it be so much harder for you to possess the same? A simple visit to church, or even a day spent not causing someone pain, would do you wonders and even steer you away from the unquenchable fire.
2)
Kyle Keyser for Mayor
October 27th, 2009 at 8:50 am
Interesting comments. I was friends with John John, and I’m happy they caught this kid. John John was one of the coolest people I ever knew, and he really didn’t deserve this.
HOWEVER – saying you want to kill Redding or whatever is stupid. He did a crime, got caught, and now he’s going to jail forever, and he’s only 17. That’s a pretty shitty fate too.
He’ll never turn on his accomplices, he has no reason to. They only offered him immunity from his own testimony. The evidence and his co-conspirators could still damn him. He’s either in the clink forever or he gets off on a technicality. I’d like to get the other 3, but we won’t.
As for the ignorant thugs and their “mamas” posting on here, their life is their punishment. It’s likely they’ll never know anything better than stealing and killing to survive. But I guess you gotta pay to play.