Well, Quanell X just left. There wasn't really much to it really. He was just speaking out about the attack not being charged as a hate crime. He also called out the w**** of a mother, for not acting years before it came to this. He then led a prayer for the kid in the hospital and left. Interesting note...........the mother as of late has been telling news people that she was "unaware" of her boy's involvement in Nazi organizations. I guess she doesn't remember my neighbor pulling the son off of her, after he beat her to a bloody pulp in her front yard 4 or 5 years ago......twice in two weeks. Not to mention the Nazi stuff spray painted on her back fence, the Hitler tattoo's on her son's chest and back, and bailing her son out of jail for assaulting someone at a cross burning last year.......the Nazi flag the neighborhood assoc. made her take down two years ago............jamming racist songs set to Bad Moon Rising, replacing the words with................."There's a race war on the rise", every afternoon her sons weren't in jail.. "WHAT, MY SON'S A NAZI? I DIDN'T KNOW...... On a lighter note.............while all of her son's were in jail.......the mom had a black boyfriend that would stay with her all the time.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4936659.html Teen victim of Spring pipe attack dies after apparent jump from ship LULAC official says family told the 18-year-old went overboard on Carnival cruise By BILL MURPHY, PAIGE HEWITT and JENNIFER LEAHY Copyright 2007 Houston Chronicle TOOLS Email Get section feed Print Subscribe NOW Comments Recommend (13) Teen speaks out Victim describes attack, impact on his life (April 17) Teen wants stricter hate crime laws after attack (April 17) Hate crimes bill advances on Spring teen's testimony (April 27) House OKs hate-crimes expansion; faces veto (May 4) A Spring teen who survived a brutal beating with a pipe last year apparently jumped to his death from a Cozumel-bound cruise ship on Sunday. An 18-year-old was observed by "a bunch of people" jumping over the railing of the upper deck of Carnival Cruise Lines' Ecstasy around 7:35 a.m. Sunday, said Coast Guard spokesman Adam Eggers. A written statement from the cruise line also said an 18-year-old appeared to jump from the ship. Carnival Cruise Lines officials would not confirm his identity, but Rick Dovalina, head of LULAC in Houston, said Sunday night that he learned through the family's attorney, Carlos Leon, that 18-year-old David Ritcheson has died. "Carlos said that the family confirmed it, that it was true," Dovalina said. "The family heard from the captain of the ship. He went overboard." The ship's crew pulled the body from the water and he was pronounced dead at 9:10 a.m. The ship had departed Galveston on Saturday and was a "couple of hundred" miles out, Eggers said. Ritcheson's death comes less than three months after he testified before Congress about how two teens nearly killed him on April 23, 2006 by repeatedly kicking a patio umbrella stand into his rectum while shouting "white power!" About a dozen cars were parked outside the family's home Sunday night. A woman who answered the door with tears in her eyes declined to comment when asked if Ritcheson had died. "We're not commenting on anything," the woman said. Albert Galvan, Ritcheson's father, also declined to comment when reached by phone. Ritcheson's relatives will fly to the Mexican resort town of Cozumel today to identify the body, Dovalina said. Ritcheson went on the cruise with a friend's family and several other friends, Dovalina said. Dovalina said he thought Ritcheson was holding up fairly well. "He just got back from Washington not that long ago. He went through a lot. He endured two trials," Dovalina said. In an April interview, Ritcheson said he was still struggling with being identified as the victim of the pipe attack. A skinhead named David Tuck, 19, was sentenced to life in prison for his part in the attack. Keith Turner, 18, received a 90-year sentence. "I shouldn't care what people think," David Ritcheson said earlier this year. "But it's like everyone knows I'm 'the kid.' I don't want to be a standout because of what happened." Jolyn Hammonds, a classmate at Klein Collins High School, said she was shocked by Ritcheson's death. "I want to throw up. It's horrible," she said. "I honestly couldn't see David's pain. If he was in pain, he hid it really, really well. He was always smiling, joking around, being himself." Alyssa Martinez, 16, found out about Ritcheson's death through a myspace.com bulletin. "He was doing fine. He's such a positive person. He was such a fun person. He would make everyone feel amazing. I don't see how he would've jumped," Martinez said. "When I first met him, like right after that whole thing happened, I asked him about it and he was like 'Oh, let's not talk about that.' He never talked about that. He wanted to talk about other people's problems instead of his own." Tuck's mother, Sharon Tuck, found out about the incident late Sunday. "What?" she said. "Oh my God. I'm so sorry. That shocks me. I feel for them. I'm in shock." Trial testimony revealed Ritcheson and Gus Sons, whom he'd befriended at an alternative school for students with disciplinary problems, met up with Tuck and Turner at a crawfish festival in Spring the night of the attack. From there, they went to Sons' house, where they drank vodka, smoked mar1juana and used cocaine and Xanax, an anti-anxiety drug. Sons testified that Tuck and Turner attacked Ritcheson because they believed he stole some drugs and tried to kiss Sons' 12-year-old sister. Tuck and Turner dragged Ritcheson, who was Hispanic, into the backyard, where they taunted him with racial slurs, punched and kicked him in the head and burned him 17 times with cigarettes. They tried to carve a swastika into his chest. His attackers poured bleach on his face and body and left him for dead. No one called for an ambulance until well after daybreak. The former Klein Collins High School running back and freshman homecoming prince spent three months and eight days in the hospital and endured more than 30 surgeries. He was coping with the past, he said last spring, "by not thinking about it." He declined psychiatric help. Ritcheson called on Congress to strengthen U.S. hate crime laws. "I appear before you as a survivor," Ritcheson told members of a House Judiciary subcommittee April 17. "I am here before you today asking that our government take the lead in deterring individuals like those who attacked me from committing unthinkable and violent crimes against others because of where they are from, the color of their skin, the God they worship, the person they love, or the way they look, talk or act." Chronicle reporter Cynthia Leonor Garza contributed to this story.
That poor. poor kid. None of us will ever know what this attack did to his psyche. Remember David Ritcheson in your prayers.
I heard about the suicide this morning. Just terrible. I can't even imagine what the parents are going through. Almost lose your son to a vicious beating, then get him back only to have him take his own life a year later. As many of you know, the main guy that did (Tuck) this lived across the street from me. 2 months ago, the w**** mom moved away. Apparently, the house was foreclosed on, and she left in a huge hurry. The whole street was very happy they moved as you could imagine. My father and I walked over to the house shortly after she moved out to see if we could see anything through the windows. The front door was open, so we walked in to check it out. Scary, scary stuff. What would be a 120,000-140,000 dollar house is I believe listed for about 40,000. Swastikas spray painted on the walls of the bedrooms. No working A/C, instead they had one crappy window unit trying to cool the whole house. Large holes kicked in most of the walls. Trash, clothes, beer cans, and cigarette butts EVERYWHERE. It smelled like a porta potty. I remember seeing some satanic stuff spray painted on the walls as well. Strangely enough, the out side of the house is in pretty good shape. You'd never know the inside was completely trashed out. Also, the boat this kid jumped off of was the same boat my company took us on a vacation in April. That's a long way down from the top. So sad.
It all goes back to the parents I have to say. So this lil non-asian kid saw me at the gas station earlier today.. going... Ching Chang Chong... I told his dad that his kid shouldnt say stuffs like this. Then the guy had a ball to say, "if you dont like it.. go back to your country." Oh my.. this kid is going to grow up just like his dad.. or even worse
You should be like my country is America you hill billy. Go back to ****ing your own kind. Then spit on his shoes.
I live in the Klein/Champions area. My entire neighborhood goes to Klein H.S. All I can say is that it's one of the most diverse neighborhoods I've seen in Texas. Most of the new homeowners like myself are minorities (mostly Asians, actually). I think with the tremendous growth in property values, we've seen a lot of White flight and Asian "gentrification". Even out in Magnolia, my boss (who recently moved out there) tells me that 1/3 of the custom homes built out there on those acre-lots are being purchased by Asians. Why? Because Asians are rich and can afford it? Stopped by Vidor, TX, last month on my way back from Destin, FL.... precisely because I ran out of gas. One of the Spring natives (an Asian girl) in my car was freaking out. But as we pulled into the gas station, half the other folks at the pumps were black... and the gas station owner was South Asian (Indian or Pakistani or Bengali)... Felt like just another gas station in Houston...
wow, i have three sons. this is so sad. the most important lesson we try to instill is to have repect for others.
my exact first thought. c'mon you damn white kids, can't you be a little more creative than that or is that all that's on your mind?
this kid was my little sisters best friend's boyfriend for a few years.... apparently he had been real depressed lately. although she was quick to point out they they dont know if it was a suicide or not, but it sure looks like it.
I don't know about Magnolia becoming a hub for Asians (I would probably disagree based on what I know and see out here), but it has nothing to do with higher incomes being able to afford to build out here. Most of what you see out here are baby boomers and work from home types that enjoy ranch style living. You can build a custom home on 1-2 acres out here for alot cheaper than you can buy a main stream builder home in say, Cypress or Sugarland. Property taxes are cheaper out here, you usually don't have to deal with MUD and since Magnolia is in Montgomery County, HOI as well as auto insurance is dirt cheap out here. My cost of living probably went down 20-25% by moving to Magnolia, and I have almost the same size home, that is more custom on a much bigger piece of land.
And we wonder why this sort of crap happens. Sometimes I feel like it's going to be centuries before the majority of this country has half a brain. If it makes it that far ...
