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The discovery of a 13 year-old girl's body, bound and gagged, in her guardian's apartment, was shocking enough, but yesterday, two men were arraigned in the murder which seems to have been prompted by a non-payment for hair-braiding. Kennith Smith and Parris France, both in their 20s, went to collect the $100 but ended up killing her. Smith denied killing McCoy, implicating France in the actual murder, as he was led outside of the police precinct. This past weekend, as the police investigated the crime, the sad, heartbreaking life story of Tyisha McCoy was revealed: Many articles explained her upbringing, born in a prison, shuttling around voluntarily between her mother, grandmother, and guardian (who had thought she was McCoy's paternal grandmother). Today, the Times reports that McCoy wrote about her encounters with older men in her journal, with one investigator saying, "She grew up not being loved and this is the way she found love, and that's why she was attracted to older men. This was a secret in her life - it's there in the books. She would always express herself on paper. No one knew her life."
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When you live that type of livestyle, you're pretty much doomed from the start.
We can all thank the neoconservs for writing off the black community. Bush once again has declined an offer to speak at the NAACP convention ,becoming the first President to have that honor for his entire presidency.
Why oh why couldn't the hijackers have flown one plane into that little school in Florida...
I need a media vacation. My first thought after reading the story, even before any sense of pathos or lovingkindness was 'I wonder when they are going to make a Law and Order on this.'
Chung chung.
Yup: It's about time for a holiday.
Parris France is a really silly name
I was thinking the same thing about the L&O crossover. What a way to be killed....by someone named Parris France.
Just to let you know, that school was actually Booker Elementary School, located in the "New Town" neighborhood of Sarasota Florida. New Town is predominantly black and poor neighborhood in Sarasota (an analogy would be that New Town is the Harlem of Sarasota).
tscoccol - nice comment, real nice. Yes, we all wish the hijackers had accomplished more. Clearly you're right.
This boy Parris France was accused initially of killing that girl but later they found that he did not actually do the killing. The smith boy confessed to doing the deed. The boy, Parris France is a loving boy who had a life that made Tyisha's look like Disney World, and still I can say that murder isn't in his heart nor in his will. He did not kill that girl nor did he watch her be murdered. He is guilty of being there and going through the mother's jewelery box. He should be greatly punished for that and for putting himself in that situation. He should not be punished for a murder he knew nothing about until after the fact.