A lot of things have hap­pened this week:  From the iden­tity of poor lit­tle Caylee Marie Anthony’s body to the gov­ern­ment bailout of the auto indus­try to the Illi­nois gov­er­nor being accused of cor­rup­tion.  Need­less to say the media out­lets have had a busy week.  And locally, we have had our share of tragedy.

Tragedy in a Small Town

I’ve already writ­ten a cou­ple of posts about it, so I’ll just pro­vide some updated infor­ma­tion that our local paper has put out.  Appar­ently, Billy Joe John­son was a sus­pect in an attempted breaking-and-entering that hap­pen less then 5 min­utes ear­lier.  That is why he was dri­ving fast through town, ran a stop light, and then ran a stop sign.

The Dis­trict Attor­ney finally came out yes­ter­day after­noon with an inves­ti­ga­tion synopsis.

The report said that a girl, a minor, and accord­ing to friends, Johnson’s for­mer girl­friend, was alone at the Lamar Street home when she heard some­one attempt­ing to break into the front door. She looked out the win­dow, the report said, and saw John­son get­ting into his truck parked across the street from her home.

He then fled south away from the scene and she called the cops.  They were in the process of tak­ing her and her mother to the police sta­tion to file charges against him when they received the call for assis­tance from the deputy sher­iff who pulled Billy Joe over.  He had just shot himself.

Rest of the story is here.  I think the offi­cer and his fam­ily now need an apol­ogy from the NAACP and Johnson’s fam­ily for try­ing to impli­cate him in the shoot­ing.  It should be clear now as to the cir­cum­stances behind Billy Joe’s death.  The case should be closed.

Hol­i­day Mad­ness about to ensue

On another note (and a hap­pier one), today I’ll be spend­ing the day shop­ping for Christ­mas gifts.  I hope every­one else stays home — haha!  (Some­how I don’t think that will hap­pen).  So wish me luck on the shop­ping.  Hope­fully there will still be some gifts left.  And for a lit­tle bit of hol­i­day fun, here’s a funny song to sing along with!