The body of a young woman found Wednesday morning was identified as Eve Marie Carson, the student body president of UNC Chapel Hill, police said Thursday.
Carson, 22, of Athens, Ga., was found shot several times, at least once in the head, around 5 a.m. Wednesday at the intersection of Hillcrest Drive and Hillcrest Circle. Carson was a Morehead scholar and a senior at the university.
Stanford University called about Jamiel Shaw a week or so ago, intrigued by the slight but speedy running back for Los Angeles High School, the Southern League’s most valuable player last year. Rutgers University called a few days later.
The Shaw family already had reason to be proud. Jamiel’s mother, Army Sgt. Anita Shaw, was on her second tour of duty in Iraq.
On Sunday night, it was Jamiel’s father on the phone and then his son’s girlfriend, Chrystale Miles. Jamiel Sr. called to tell him to hurry home from the mall. The 17-year-old boy was three doors away when someone shot him to death while he was still talking on his cellphone to Chrystale, friends say.
Jamiel Sr. heard the shots almost as soon as he hung up. He ran out of the house, raced around the corner and found his son lying on the sidewalk, bleeding.
“She’s over there trying to protect us from guns and bombs, and then she has to hear that her son is dead over here,” he said of Anita on Monday. “I’ve got my own personal Iraq now.”
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sad. and assault weapons remain legal because…?
this past week. Several family members killed in a nasty way, not that there is a nice way to do it.
and George Bush celebrates it… fear. desperation. the baseness of our beings provoked in service to their god… one demanding our submission and admission that, once and for all, we need salvation.
fuck.
to these stories is that, if you watched cable news yesterday, you heard endlessly about the killing of Eva Marie. But not a word about Jamiel. Two deaths, equally horrific, but one seems to matter to us a whole lot more than the other.
at the level of homicide accounts in the Seattle and Washington state area lately.
If violent crime is not rising then the media is fooling us. Is it an indicator of bad economic times, strained lives, broken psyches, desperation? That guns are available to people so readily really is a mess. How did we get here to this place? Can we ever go back?
that the tv news, comb the wire for stories about white blond female victims of violence and missing female children. Thay pick these to whip up frenzy’s and fear with? Tabloid news is all we have.
As to violent murder getting worse, I don’t know. But it does seem to me that if you whip a whole population up to a killing frenzy with cries of ‘shock and awe’, and send our people to kill ‘others’ for ‘national interests’ it’s bound to cause a collective culture of death. When torture is soft peddled and solutions to global unrest is mass killing, it is telling that we get all tweaked at the violence only if it is directed at blond women and those we think should be exempt.
Violence has been carefully nurtured via mass culture. Violent games, entertainment and revisionist history have softened us up to accept that it’s just the way it is. Strange that we regulate sex but pour out the violence and equate it with our God given rights.