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A Life & Death Matter

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That's the title of an article from the Saturday edition of the Odessa American.  It's written by Matthew McGowan.  LINK  Here's an extended exceprt:Two days after Christmas about 13 years ago in a house on Drury Lane, Emma Fabela's son, Cesar, was shot in the head with a .22-caliber rifle.  He died the next morning in an Odessa hospital, leaving his mother, father and sister to pick up the shattered remains of the family and try to put it all back together. Compounding Fabela's grief was the identity of the shooter, 16-year-old Albert Lopez - her son's best friend. "I was trying to figure out why, of course," she said. "This was a boy that we had taken into our home. He had accompanied us on several family vacations...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on June 22, 2009 (boomark / email).