We Need Help

this is a picture posted by the Times Picayune NOLA.com
It is a picture of Dan Walter Kerry who was shot and killed going to a local fair on Sunday. He was just 16 years old.



In the past 3 days there have been five people shot and killed in the New Orleans area. These have been individual instances that have somehow gripped my heart. Most of the murders are teens. Think about it TEENS! What were you doing at 14, 16, 18? I was going to football games, homecoming dances, rollerskating and hanging out with my friends at slumber parties. Sure we drank a beer once in a while but we stayed out of major trouble. It is hard for me to comprehend that these people are involved with things that are getting them killed at such a young age. Further more, its hard to believe I live here watching it go down. Tuesday night and a 17 year old is lying dead in the street. How could anyone put anything over a life?

Thugs have no respect for life until its their own that has been taken or dissed. Can't dis a homey ya know what I'm sayin? (as they cock a pistol and point it your way) When did life get so unimportant? How does an entire mentality snap and think money or even words are more important than life? I just dont understand.

I weep for the people who live in this kind of culture. I weep for the dead and I weep for those who kill. May the gods grant safety to the ones who dont want to live there and cant leave. I wish we could just shout STOP and have it be so.

5 dead in 3 days.... 5 dead in 3 days..... 5 dead..... and I cry because tomorrow is another day that I will look in the crime section and probably see another story that says "police are asking for any information about this shooting please call crime stoppers" then it will be 6 dead in 4 days.

STOP!