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lovemydogs

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Wed Jan 2, 2019, 05:32 PM Jan 2019

Jazmine

I read today that Shaun King and another person have raised $50,000 for a reward leading to a murderer.

As a white grandmother in the midwest my heart breaks over a little girl.
I have granddaughters who are very precious to me who are 9 and 6.
She haunts me.
She should be at home playing with her Christmas toys.
Not laying in a casket in some Funeral Home.

I see this baby's mother. A picture of her seeming to be holding on by a thread as she tells what happened in the car when a man in a red pickup shot at her family. A mom out for a day with her daughters. He shot and an innocent child is dead.

I check online to see if a monster has been caught yet. And I feel sad he has not yet.

I can feel the pain Jazmine's mom is going through. The deep, soul crushing pain. Then it ebbs to sadness and then a depression that hangs on for months and years when her thought turn to her baby who should be starting Jr. High, going to prom, graduating and beginning college. All the milestones that never will be. Only the memory of the 1000 watt smile that seemed to light everything up.
And the question of 'why'.

Even if and when the monster is caught and his reasons are learned, it still will never be enough to answer why. Why a little girl.
Why anyone. Why did he choose hate and murder?

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Jazmine (Original Post) lovemydogs Jan 2019 OP
I have been crying over this. Shell_Seas Jan 2019 #1
It brings tears, An innocent baby for no reason lovemydogs Jan 2019 #2
The monsters have been caught oberliner Jan 2019 #3
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