monkeyswrench
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Just found out my sister's ex-husband was murdered early Saturday morning. In all honesty, I don't believe I had seen him in 25+ years. He skipped out on my sister and 3 kids...and she wasn't a Saint or mother of the year either.
Over the past few years, he'd been in contact with the kids. I heard he had some more kids...which was a hurdle for my nieces and nephew, but they'd kind of been okay with it now. My sister was 17 when she got pregnant, and I think they got married a year or so later...I was 9 or 10. He was nice to me early on, but as their lives went to hell, so did my family's. By the time I was 15, I saw the drug use, and the crappy side.
I like to think he "grew out of it". He'd been driving a truck, commercial stuff, for the past 10 years or so. Late Friday night/early Saturday morning, he was headed down the 5, outside of Bakersfield. It appears that he past a wrecked car, and saw a guy walking down the highway. He picked up the guy to give him a ride. The 21 year old kid stabbed and killed him.
Turns out, the kid had car jacked someone in Oakland, robbed a place on the way to Bakersfield, then stabbed another person and took their car. Shortly after, he wrecked that car...and that's where Joe picked him up.
He obviously wasn't close anymore. Hell, at times I hated him. At times he was pretty cool though. He grew up 6 houses down the road...
He may have become a good father, I don't know. It seems he was trying to be a good grandfather. I'm pretty torn on this, I don't know if I'm sad because it was him, or the state of the world we're in...or both.
No matter the case, I don't think he deserved this
Over the past few years, he'd been in contact with the kids. I heard he had some more kids...which was a hurdle for my nieces and nephew, but they'd kind of been okay with it now. My sister was 17 when she got pregnant, and I think they got married a year or so later...I was 9 or 10. He was nice to me early on, but as their lives went to hell, so did my family's. By the time I was 15, I saw the drug use, and the crappy side.
I like to think he "grew out of it". He'd been driving a truck, commercial stuff, for the past 10 years or so. Late Friday night/early Saturday morning, he was headed down the 5, outside of Bakersfield. It appears that he past a wrecked car, and saw a guy walking down the highway. He picked up the guy to give him a ride. The 21 year old kid stabbed and killed him.
Turns out, the kid had car jacked someone in Oakland, robbed a place on the way to Bakersfield, then stabbed another person and took their car. Shortly after, he wrecked that car...and that's where Joe picked him up.
He obviously wasn't close anymore. Hell, at times I hated him. At times he was pretty cool though. He grew up 6 houses down the road...
He may have become a good father, I don't know. It seems he was trying to be a good grandfather. I'm pretty torn on this, I don't know if I'm sad because it was him, or the state of the world we're in...or both.
No matter the case, I don't think he deserved this
