Rochester's Second Homicide for 2023: Justice of a Sort.


 In 2015, three people were shot and killed at Rochester's Boys and Girls Club while exiting a basketball game.

It was a drive-by shooting.

Three others were injured during that incident.

Three men were eventually charged in connection with that triple homicide: Johnny Blackshell, Jalen Everett and Michael Mathis.

Only Blackshell was convicted for his part in the triple slaying.

The other two were eventually acquitted.


Not everyone believed that they were innocent.

Two years after his acquittal, in 2019, Everett was shot to death in a car in Rochester's historic Maplewood neighborhood.

It used to be so peaceful and quiet there.

Just coincidence? Or was Nemesis at work?

Nemesis was the ancient Greek goddess who personified retribution.

She is notoriously slow but ultimately effective when the laws of men fail.

This past Saturday, January 22, Nemesis struck again. 

The result was Rochester's second homicide of the year.

The victim? Why none other than Michael Mathis, the other man involved in the triple homicide at the Boys and Girls Club in 2015 who was acquitted.

He was shot to death in Rochester's toney East End Bar District.

He was 25 years old.

RPD Captain Frank Umbrino stated that the police were uncertain if Mathis's death was linked to the 2015 triple slaying, if it was retribution for his part in it or that it might simply be an unrelated incident.

However, as I have stated previously, too many coincidences are too coincidental, especially among deadly feral urban humanoids. 

And especially in Rochester, where the judiciary continually releases dangerous felons without imposing cash bail or bond, only to have the police arrest them again.

Rinse and repeat ad infinitum.

Ironically, "catch and release," while putting law abiding citizens in danger from such violent individuals, it also puts the thugs themselves in danger...of other thugs who have scores to settle with them.

And that the only one of three men involved in the triple homicide at the Boys and Girls Club is Blackshell, who is serving a life sentence in the salubrious and stimulating atmosphere of the New York State penal system, is still alive.

Nemesis!

And justice...of a sort.

Comments

  1. Gecko2020January 24, 2023 at 2:53 PM

    Isn't it supposed to be "crime AND punishment"? Not crime and/or/maybe punishment? It's a scary world out there!

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