Letter to the Editor: There Should Be Justice for Victims

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On the morning of June 16 those of us who live by Logan Park were woke up by a criminal violently trying to enter first one home, then the next door neighbor’s garage. This young man was using what looked to be a garden rake the size of a hoe. After failing to gain entry before 5 a.m., he walked home and got a chef’s knife. As he was still set on destruction now armed with the knife and had woke all of us up. 

Part of us now being out front waiting on the police he came back, this time heading for house number three and right toward my son-in-law with knife front and center. So when he refused to obey the officers’ commands and still armed and coming, the officer shot. Justified. 

He had no reason to want to kill a man he had woke up and never even spoke to. I’ve heard he was on and off mental health drugs and meth. I don’t care, he was trying to kill many people that morning and did a large amount of property damage too.

Then they, his family and friends, set up a memorial to him where he traumatized three families. The city allowed this to go on until Aug. 14. Up to 80 people first showed up in the evenings, the number dwindled down, but they kept coming with drinks, loud music and so on at all hours and yes I do mean even after midnight many nights. This inflicted more trauma to the three households of his victims for two months while regular complaints were made to the city about it. The day they took it down I had started to research lawyers to sue Centralia City for all the trauma they forced on us. 

The main thing the city kept saying is I should try to understand their culture. What does culture have to do with him being a criminal and all of us having to endure this hell? Graveyards are where they should go, not shoving it in the victims’ faces. What has this town turned into? 



Over the past two months, there has been a lot wrote on social media over this and is not based in reality, I am one of the witnesses he woke up that morning and I say there should be justice for the victims.

 

Gina Lynn

Centralia