Absolutely horrible story for you to read. However, while this is a horrible thing to hear, and this type of event is indeed seeming to become more commonplace, I find some of the comments from the article almost as disturbing.

Naturally, when stories like this hit the mainstream media, there are those people that blame race. Whether or not race is the issue here isn't my beef. Whats my beef is how quickly it "became" a race issue and how willing everyone was to join in.

Why is it that we can't change. It has to start somewhere folks. We may be from different backgrounds and ethnic groups, but we're all flesh and blood. We're all humankind. How much longer are we going let the color of someone's skin determine our reaction to a given event.

We need to change...humankind needs to change and I think those of us in THIS country are some of the worst offenders. Don't we have enough problems right now? Seriously??

We need to change, the sooner, the better. Change is possible, its not a matter of how...but when.