Prosecutor: Killer Of South Boston Grandmother Wanted Fishing Equipment
SOUTH BOSTON (CBS) – The man charged with the brutal murder of a South Boston grandmother last week was looking for fishing equipment when he killed her, the prosecutor said Monday.He beat her and slashed her throat over fishing equipment. Fishing equipment. For a few hundred dollars in gear, a woman was brutally murdered. He used money from a lottery ticket he stole from her house to buy drugs. For a cheap high, a woman spent the last moments of her life in pain, bleeding to death in her own home.
Timothy Kostka, 26, pleaded not guilty to charges of first-degree murder and home invasion in South Boston Municipal Court this afternoon.
I can't even begin to contemplate the kind of horror that poor woman went through in her dying moments, her life spilling out of her at the hands of a stranger over a few items he figured he could sell for drug money. I can't imagine the mixture of utter sadness and blinding anger her family feels, knowing that some lowlife murdered their mother and grandmother over a few dollars, all to support his drub habit.
And it will be worse - make no mistake. He'll plead out to second degree murder, sentenced to 10 years in jail, out on parole in six years. Someone else's mother will pay for the inability of the justice system to keep the animals under control; another family will be shattered as a violent criminal is released back on the streets into a populace that is defanged by state decree.
"You carry a gun every day?" they ask incredulously? "You wear your seatbelt every day?" I reply. It's safety equipment - you don't turn off your smoke detectors because you don't think you'll have a fire today, right? I suppose it shouldn't surprise me; admitting that there is evil in this world that can and often does strike at the vulnerable makes folks uncomfortable, so they try to forget it exists and mock those few that prepare for it.
I hope they never have to find out why we prepare.
That is all.
10 comments:
It happens all over the country. Had a triple murder in next small town over about 3 weeks ago. Totally senseless. Thugs walked into a convenience store and just started shooting. They robbed the place afterwards. Then they got caught a couple of days later.
One of the victims was a high school junior. Imagine lying there bleeding out on the floor of your dad's store. Imagine how the dad feels.
I carry a gun because there are people in my life I love, and I do not want to let them down
Some people in my life ridiculed me and made jokes about my being "prepared" with food stores, fuel stores, genset etc.
Then Hurrican Wilma came through.
No electric power for 2 weeks, no food in the stores, no potable water, no fuel available for cars, grilles, no batteries.
Guess who had a lot of "friends"?
(I actually had some ask to "borrow" a firearm.)
I'll have to remember that seat belt response. It's much more polite than what I had in mind.
One of my firm's clients (whom I'd never met) was murdered over the weekend. A retired nurse, she had opened a food truck with her husband and was selling arepas. Apparently someone shot her in the midst of a robbery; she died at the hospital.
Wish she'd had a gun and the training/motification to use it . . . by all accounts she was a lovely person.
I am sure every has heard about the murder here in Spring, TX. A young lady was leaving the OB/GYN after getting her 3 day old baby his checkup. The woman parked in the car next to here shot the mom seven times, took her baby and then drove over her victim as she fled the scene. Makes you wonder who things would have turned out if mom had been carrying.
@DHenderson - I live near Spring, but most likely she was going to a professional building close to a hospital, which she would not be allowed to carry there anyway unless there wasn't a 30.06 sign which forbade it, posted on the door. I hate going to the doctor because I can't carry there and you just never know what craziness lurks just around the corner.
@Jay - great post and I so agree with you. A little over a year ago, I began taking steps toward ensuring my own self defense. Some of my friends think that I'm a nut but I don't care, let them. I am preparing myself for a time when I could meet a dangerous situation. At least I know that I have the tools with me to give myself a good chance at survival.
@ Southern Belle, I have lost some of my dearest friends over this issue. I have never forced my views or refused to visit them because they don't want me to carry, but the fact that I prepare to carry everyday all the time, they decided I was over the top and literally said, "see ya"
Agirl,
I'm sorry to hear that.
I tend to not mention my carrying habits - I *do* live in the Volksrepublik of MA - even to folks that I presume to be sympathetic to the second amendment.
I've drawn incredulous looks even among gunnies in MA when I reveal that I carry often. I don't understand it, really. We have jumped through the (unConstitutional IMHO) hoops to *get* that permit, why not use it?
Southern Belle: I believe Kathy Jackson aka corneredcat.com has some things to say about NOT taking off your gun when you visit the doctor.
http://corneredcat.com/Would_You_Carry_a_Gun_to_the_Doctors_Office/
Ultimately, it's your choice -- between dealing with the consequences of being caught with a gun where They Don't Want You To Have One, or not having one when you need it most. It's a personal decision.
respectfully,
DiB
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