Yeah Spazzy I did win finally. I got my first great night\'s sleep last night.
As for my brother I had posted it on here a while back so it\'s nothing secret. My brother Joseph, 20, was at a house party and some kids that were not invited caused some trouble. They were turned away from the party at that point but came back with a handgun and fired 5 rounds at the house. Unfortunately my brother was on the porch with three other friends during this. He was the only one who was hit. It was a transverse shot to the abdomen which means it ripped through him side to side (not front to back). Basically he was gutted on the inside. He arrived at the hospital with no pulse but had it not been for an EMT in training and a nurse who were at the party (apparently it was two people who tried to save him) he would have been dead in 10 minutes from bleeding out.
He was medivaced to the best trauma hospital in the DC area. As soon as he arrived he was sent to surgery. He was on the table for five and a half hours and they finally had to stop because his body needed the time to rest.
Unfortunately there was a ton of internal bleeding and complications arose. He tried fighting for several days. Once he developed pnuemonia I flew back home to say goodbye. That was the end and we all knew it.
I was at the hospital all day and all night until he went brain dead. We all talked about what to do and decided after many hours that we needed to stop his blood pressure medications. 10 minutes later he was gone from us.
While I was still home I went to one of the accomplices bond hearings and unfortunately she was let out. The other accomplice and the shooter are both still in jail and the first hearing is Monday. Proceedings should only take a couple of days since both of them have already confessed. Unless the motion is made for it, it will not be a jury trial. There will be a Grand Jury meeting which means it\'s the judge, the lawyers, the police and the US marshals who were involved.
The US marshals caught the perpetrators because they were in the process of fleeing Virginia. The night we left the hospital (at 3am) we were the only cars on the road save a string of police (maybe about 6 cars) all driving in the direction we were going. We found out later that was the US marshals who caught Moran, Escobar and Smerbeck (the kids who killed my brother).
Fun times eh? Needless to say with my brother dying (that was just back in early February), some harassment issues at work, moving into my house and then having to deal with the floor . . . I\'ve been teetering on the brink of a nervous break down the past few days. I didn\'t know what I was going to do if Lowe\'s continued to give me a hard time. I\'m glad that\'s over. I am going to go probably next week to pick out my tile for my kitchen.
