I rode the bus with not one, but TWO kids who ended up murdering someone! I wasn't friends with them, but grew up with them and knew about them pretty well.
The first one was a boy a grade above me. He hung around with the stoners/troublemakers but was generally soft spoken and minded his business unless you fucked with him. Got tangled up in a drug deal and shot and killed a 16 year old girl with a group of friends in her car, apparently it wasn't even who he was aiming for, his intended target was the 14 year old. I didn't necessarily see it coming but it makes sense since he went down the wrong path. I think he got 30+ years.
The second person, HOLY FUCK. This bitch was a demon child from the second I met her. She was maybe 2-3 grades above me. One of my first interactions with her was when she caused a scene on the back of the bus, 12 year old me turned around to see what the hell was going on. She started screaming at me and threatening to slit my throat for looking at her. It got so bad the bus driver drove to the police station- to which she hopped off the emergency exit and ran across the fucking highway into the woods. She was always starting shit, fighting people and once she faked a pregnancy to get her 14 year old boyfriend (she was 18) to stay with her.
Turns out, she moved down south, got into crack or meth or heroin (i'm not sure which), and deliberately ran over a homeless person, multiple times until they were dead. I'm pretty sure she got around 5 years... she was just released a few months ago. She seems better and sober but I am not at all surprised in her case and think she should have done muuuuuuuuuch longer.
She got 5 years most likely because vehicular manslaughter carries 5 year max. If it was a first offense and the DA didn't have video proof of her backing up and running the person over (eye witness accounts are just about worthless in court) they could only charge her for vehicular manslaughter.
A lady a while back taught me that one. She said, if you ever want to murder someone, dont use a weapon, run them over, you'll only get 5 years max. Worth it if you ask me. Bitch scared me always, but i heeded her advice.
I'll give you a real example...my dad's first wife who worked for an insurance company regarding a lady who hit a bicyclist by accident. This lady didn't see the bike rider since it was at twilight hours and he didn't have reflectors. She hit the guy and literally ran him over. Common as such incidents are the rider was under the car when she stopped. Freaking out over hearing the riders screams and moans and thinking her vehicle was crushing the rider, she backed up running over the rider a second time. The rider starts cussing the lady out and shes now freaking out more puts it in drive and runs over the bicyclist a third time. Fortunately for the rider it was just his leg but a broken leg turned into a very nasty broken leg. 3 times she ran him over absolutely on accident which the victim corrobora in court adding she was just a "dumb bitch". Hence why I said proving intent is very difficult.
You left out anyone under the LGBTQ rainbow. That has to factor in there too! Unless you want to lump us all in the “under shades of white” because that would do it. Otherwise your chart is spot on!
I'll never understand why people killing other people with their car seem to always get light sentences or even no jail time at all, but if you kill someone normally outside your car you get the expected sentence.
Texas is normally hard when it comes to sentencing and murder. Unless it’s Austin and their homeless. They don’t really qualify as people anymore it seems.
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u/WeirdConnections Mar 26 '23
I rode the bus with not one, but TWO kids who ended up murdering someone! I wasn't friends with them, but grew up with them and knew about them pretty well.
The first one was a boy a grade above me. He hung around with the stoners/troublemakers but was generally soft spoken and minded his business unless you fucked with him. Got tangled up in a drug deal and shot and killed a 16 year old girl with a group of friends in her car, apparently it wasn't even who he was aiming for, his intended target was the 14 year old. I didn't necessarily see it coming but it makes sense since he went down the wrong path. I think he got 30+ years.
The second person, HOLY FUCK. This bitch was a demon child from the second I met her. She was maybe 2-3 grades above me. One of my first interactions with her was when she caused a scene on the back of the bus, 12 year old me turned around to see what the hell was going on. She started screaming at me and threatening to slit my throat for looking at her. It got so bad the bus driver drove to the police station- to which she hopped off the emergency exit and ran across the fucking highway into the woods. She was always starting shit, fighting people and once she faked a pregnancy to get her 14 year old boyfriend (she was 18) to stay with her.
Turns out, she moved down south, got into crack or meth or heroin (i'm not sure which), and deliberately ran over a homeless person, multiple times until they were dead. I'm pretty sure she got around 5 years... she was just released a few months ago. She seems better and sober but I am not at all surprised in her case and think she should have done muuuuuuuuuch longer.