Thursday, June 18, 2015

IS IT A GOOD TIME TO TRY AND HELP?



It’s awkward when you go to the family home of someone killed for some reason.

Family and friends are gathered there crying and you wonder if they will welcome you to have a chat with them.

Doing a crime story isn’t difficult… Its dealing with the emotions of the family when you get there is the hard part.

Mother of Student Killed by Electrocution cried while talking
You are hoping that they can give you some of their time because the person was murdered and you need to do a story so the rest of the country can know about the tragic death…

You stand there… still feeling awkward, when someone recognizes you! Thank Goodness! Someone will always recognize you!

When they do come over you make small talk, your also very upset that the death has happened, even if they think your not…

Then they start telling you about the person who got killed, when it happened, where it happened, how it happened, who might have done it and why it happened.

You listen… and ask questions a small group forms, you listen… all the while your also getting pretty said, wondering why people are killing each other!

Then you ask them if they can talk, you ask them if a family member can talk on camera… SILENCE…. And then they say we can’t talk, but we will ask the family.

They walk off. You wait…. Your still waiting…. More crying coming from the distance.

Moments that seem like eternity past and they walk up to you…

Sorry the family don’t want to speak on camera because they don’t want it out on the media…

MY WHOLE WORLD CRUMBLES… THE DEAD PERSON CAN’T SPEAK ANYMORE, BUT I AM SURE THE PERSON WOULD WANT THE WORLD TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO HIM…

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