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south fla here

well at least some of us are happy..yahooooooo

This is sad..keep the family in all your prayers.



Sunday, February 01, 2009

Screaming brought Nicole Potrekus to her living room window early Sunday afternoon. Looking out, she saw in her neighbor's driveway an 11-year-old boy lying on his back, with blood pooling around his head.

"People were screaming and we ran outside and the little boy was laying in the driveway and he had a gunshot wound," said Potrekus, a pediatric nurse who works for the Parent-Child Center in Riviera Beach. "I think the one boy carried him out."




This, Potrekus recalled Sunday, barely an hour after the bloody scene played out, was how she became the first person to try to save the 11-year-old's life. But neither she, nor the paramedics nor the doctors at Delray Medical Center, where the boy was flown by helicopter, could do anything for the child, who died at the hospital, the victim of an apparent accident.

The boy, whose name wasn't made public late Sunday, was fatally wounded by a 9-year-old child wielding a stolen .22-caliber pistol, said Lt. Mark Alexander, a commander in the Palm Beach County Sheriff's Office Special Investigations Division.

"The actual discharge of the weapon does appear to be accidental," Alexander said Sunday afternoon, after his detectives interviewed witnesses and got a warrant to search the house at 4297 Lilac Circle, in a middle-class neighborhood near Kirk Road and Melaleuca Lane.

About six people, including one adult, were in the house at about noon when the boy was shot, sheriff's officials said.

Sheriff's detectives and a Department of Children and Families official still were investigating Sunday how the pistol, which was reported stolen on Jan. 11, made its way into the child's hands, sheriff's office officials said.

After the shooting, one of the boys apparently tried to hide the gun in Sanders Park just north of the house, scaling a fence and throwing down the pistol before trying to run away, a witness told detectives.

Using police dogs, deputies found the gun in the park soon after and retrieved it, said Teri Barbera, sheriff's office spokeswoman.

After investigators gather all the facts, a grand jury likely will decide how the case is handled, Alexander said.

About an hour and a half after the shooting, a woman with an untied apron dangling loosely from her neck stumbled over to the sidewalk in front of the house and, moaning in Creole, collapsed in a sobbing heap. A shouting man tried desperately to console her.

The dead boy's family refused to talk to reporters after the shooting, and instead remained bunched in a tense cluster beneath a nearby palm, their faces slackened by grief.

Potrekus, the pediatric nurse, wore a similar look as she replayed the boy's final moments in her head.

She remembered kneeling over him in the driveway, the same boy with whom she and her husband lit firecrackers in the failing light on New Year's Eve.

She saw that he was breathing and listened as her husband shouted the emergency dispatcher's instructions from across the yard.

Potrekus pressed her hand against the wound, just below the boy's left eyebrow, but it only bled more and more.

An hour later, he was gone.

Having done all that she could, she sat in a daze on her lawn, her own little boy playing around her, and gazed across the street at a pool of blood soaking into the concrete.

morning charles...well Phill saw his shadow..damn!!! LOL..6 more weeks of winter

cool rae is home? Hi rae welcome home!!

good morning everyone


good game last nite richard..did u go? LOL..i bet Tampa was extra crouded for a few days, huh?

well its true..i love nice feet on a guy

omg..what a pic

i love nice feet on a guy..turns me on

<<<<<sucks toes here

you dont have to say anything..

i'm sorry for the way i acted towards you.

i'm sorry I hurt your feelings. I didnt mean to.

I care about you more than you know.

You are in my thoughts and prayers.

You mean more to me than you think.

I'm sorry for being selfish. I will change that in
time.

Selfishness is not called for in me.

You are a beautiful soul.

A caring person.

You shine like a bright star up in the sky.


I dont like to see you cry.

I cryed too.

Things will be alright.

God is watching over and angel right now.

You are blessed.

I am blessed for having a wonderful friend in you.

I do care and I love you.


(Daniel)

Love, Karen

When you look





my heart flutters





skips a beat





your eye catches mine





i drift


dream


wish


hope





sunsets and warmth





hugs and kisses





peace and contentment





a bird swoops across





and catches my heart





in his beak





across the desert plains





anytime





i could fall





could be dropped





but carried safely across





i feel good





you are at the end





the pain and suffering along the way





all beyond my





comprehension


care


feelings


recognition





i see it all around me





in the faces of people





my peers





and yet





it feels like a movie





i feel nothing





experience nothing





nothing unpleasant





just your smile





just your touch





just your lips on my neck





just my shivers





and i am happy





although there is turmoil all around me





a storm brewing black





blue





dark menacing thoughts swirl





around me





and yet i am happy





for the thoughts are not alone





their darkness does not reign free





for the sun radiates from me





i notice not the storm





all i notice is you





and i am happy





for you are here





real





and you whisper in my ear





"I love you."

good luck to ya

morning richard..i'm here..but i have to grab a coffee and go!! busy friday for me

prayers here richard..god's grace is with them

good morning everyone!!

RIP

they were a good band

i'm doing good..thanks