Justice for Drew

A mother sits by her son's hospital bedside day in and day out waiting for her bubbly, active boy to respond to her. To look her in the eyes. To smile.

For three weeks, as her young son has clung to life, Lee has wondered how an ordinary walk home from a concert a few blocks from their home could have become such a nightmare.

Police, so far, have no answers. Why?

Just a block and a half from his home, 13-year-old Drew was pulled into a Main Street East parking lot behind the Bible Centred Ministries building and beaten into unconsciousness. Lee is left wondering if her son will be able to hug her again. To play sports again. To be a kid again. She dreams of it, but has a hard time believing it is even a remote possibility.

Looking exhausted and emotionally drained, this courageous mother made a desperate plea through the media for information about her son's attacker or about the attack itself.

Detective Constable Daryl Reid is leading the investigation and believes there is valuable information being withheld. The parking lot, to the north of Main Street East just east of Proctor Boulevard, is a highly visible lot.

Lee said Drew had left the house around 7 p.m. Aug. 5 to attend a concert in Gage Park with his friends. His curfew was 9:30 p.m. and he knew he was expected to abide by it. He never made it home.

Drew had separated from his friends after they had walked west along Maplewood Avenue to Sherman Avenue South. Drew continued the walk home west along Main Street East. It was approximately 9:50 p.m. when Drew wandered by a parking lot at 685 Main St. E.

A man came out of the shadows and grabbed the boy and knocked him to the ground. He began his merciless attack, kicking and stomping on the boy's head. An elderly woman witnessed the attack from a window above the parking lot and screamed at the unknown man to stop. The man paused and took a few steps away then continued to beat the young boy. The woman continued to scream and the man ran off, leaving the boy lying motionless in the parking lot.

After two and a half weeks in a drug-induced coma, Drew was moved out of intensive care Thursday, but remains in hospital in serious condition. His mother says even if he is able to receive rehabilitation, his life will never be the same.

He may never play with his friends again and the world may never know this kids potential.

The suspect as a male, black, 16-20 years old, 5-foot-5, 130 to 140 pounds, wearing long pants.

This kind of garbage makes me sick to my stomach and I'm sorry if I sound like a broken record, but the Hamilton Police once again have nothing to say. I know, cowards don't read, but I plead with the scum who did this to turn himself in and take his punishment like a man.

I know every faith preaches and common sense dictates vigilance and not vigilantism, but some circumstances make you so mad as to only wish the worse. For this satan bastard, I wish just that.

UPDATE:
July 14, 2009

The family of Drew Lee, a boy brutally stomped on in an unprovoked attack while walking home, is outraged his attacker was given three years in prison for causing Drew permanent brain damage.Alexander Carloni, 21, was sentenced this morning in a Hamilton courtroom filled with tears from both Lee and Carloni’s families. Carloni was given two-for-one credit for the two and a half years he spent in custody awaiting trial, so that his sentence is equivalent to about eight years. Justice Jane Milanetti said earlier in court there is no sentence she could give Carloni that would be adequate for Drew and his family. Drew has been left significantly compromised, physically, emotionally and intellectually and he will never be the same, she said.To Carloni, Milanetti said it was up to him to “walk the talk” of the remorse he expressed yesterday and to follow through on turning his life around.

Later,
Kenaz

Wagons Ho! over at Kenaz's Old Time Radio

This week I'm going country. No, I don't mean buttermilk yellow and cow dispensers. More like the complete series from two of the most popular OTR western series, Gunsmoke and Green Valley Line. I've thrown in a little Hoppalong Cassidy to boot.

Gunsmoke

Macdonnel and Meston wanted to create a radio western for adults, in contrast to the prevailing juvenile fare like The Lone Ranger or The Cisco Kid. Gunsmoke was set in Dodge City, Kansas during the thriving cattle days of the 1870s. Dunning notes that "The show drew critical acclaim for unprecedented realism;" he also writes that among old time radio fans, "Gunsmoke is routinely placed among the best shows of any kind and any time." (Dunning, 304) The show's cast, writing, and sound effects have seen much praise.

The radio series, which first aired April 26, 1952 and ran until June 18, 1961 on CBS, starred William Conrad as Marshal Matt Dillon, Howard McNear as the ghoulish, brittle Doc Charles Adams, Georgia Ellis as prostitute, Kitty Russell and Parley Baer as Dillon's assistant (but not his deputy) Chester Proudfoot. (On the television series, Doc's first name and Chester's last name were changed.) Chester's character had no surname until "Proudfoot" was ad libbed by Baer during a rehearsal early on, while Doc Adams was named after cartoonist Charles Addams. In a 1953 interview with Time, Macdonnell declared, "Kitty is just someone Matt has to visit every once in a while. We never say it, but Kitty is a prostitute, plain and simple." (Dunning, 304)-wikipedia

Green Valley Line

Syndicated program 1930's , probably originating from WXYZ, Detroit, starring Rolon Parker and John Todd. The basic story line is of a small railroad just after the turn of the twentieth century in the town of Morristown.

To enjoy, click on the radio logo located in the side bar.

Later,
Kenaz