A friend of mine (perhaps you've heard his story, it made national news),
killed himself yesterday.
this is his story (taken from wikipedia):
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The April 22, 2006 Harris County assault incident refers to a beating during the early morning of April 22, 2006 in an unincorporated section of Harris County, Texas, United States. The details of the attack lead to publication of the story in various media outlets inside [1] and outside [2] of the United States. The site of the incident, located north of the city of Houston, has a "Spring, Texas" address, and is therefore identified as taking place "in Spring."
During a partly held at the Sons family house, two students who attended Klein Collins High School, David Henry Tuck and Keith Robert Turner, brutally beat, tortured, and sodomized David Ritcheson [3], a 17-year old Hispanic Klein Collins student.
Tuck and Turner were both under the influence of recreational drugs, and claim to have been told that Ritcheson tried to kiss, or made further sexual advances on Danielle Sons, the underage sister of Gus Sons, the son of the owner of the Sons family house, who is also named Gus Sons [4]. These claims have not been substantiated. Danielle's statement threw Tuck into a rage, and Tuck punched Ritchseson. The first punch was so powerful it broke Ritcheson's cheekbone and knocked him unconscious, stated Red Duke, the emergency physician who treated him. Tuck and Turner dragged the teenager outside, and for the next five hours stripped him naked, burned the victim with cigarettes, choked him with a gardening hose and proceeded to engrave a swastika into the victim's chest, Tuck kicked Ritcheson with steel-toed boots, and furthermore violently kicked a PVC pipe up his rectum several inches while yelling racial slurs. After the sodomy ended, the perpetrators poured bleach on the victim's body to conceal the evidence of the crime. The victim stayed in the hospital for three months, requiring to undergo close to forty surgeries and contemplating a possible life of infirmity, because of the PVC pipe had perforated his bladder and caused extensive internal injuries. The night after the assault, his lungs failed and he was placed on a ventilator.
Later in December 2006, Tuck and Turner were both convicted of aggravated sexual assault. Tuck was sentenced to life in prison, and Turner was sentenced to 90 years. They both will not be eligible for parole until 2035 at the earliest. Tuck has since appealed his life sentence.
On July 1, 2007 Ritcheson committed suicide by jumping from the deck of the MS Ecstasy, a cruise ship bound for Cozumel, Mexico. The incident happened at around 7:30 a.m. [5] (as quoted by KTRK) to 8:35 a.m. [6] (as quoted by KHOU) aboard the Ecstasy, according to a written statement from Carnival Cruise Lines. The ship's crew pulled the 18-year-old's body from the water about 45 minutes afterward. Carnival Cruise Lines officials would not confirm his identity; Rick Dovalina, head of LULAC in Houston, said tonight that he confirmed through the family's attorney, Carlos Leon, that Ritcheson died. Ritcheson's identity and photographs were revealed by the media after his death [7].
killed himself yesterday.
this is his story (taken from wikipedia):
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The April 22, 2006 Harris County assault incident refers to a beating during the early morning of April 22, 2006 in an unincorporated section of Harris County, Texas, United States. The details of the attack lead to publication of the story in various media outlets inside [1] and outside [2] of the United States. The site of the incident, located north of the city of Houston, has a "Spring, Texas" address, and is therefore identified as taking place "in Spring."
During a partly held at the Sons family house, two students who attended Klein Collins High School, David Henry Tuck and Keith Robert Turner, brutally beat, tortured, and sodomized David Ritcheson [3], a 17-year old Hispanic Klein Collins student.
Tuck and Turner were both under the influence of recreational drugs, and claim to have been told that Ritcheson tried to kiss, or made further sexual advances on Danielle Sons, the underage sister of Gus Sons, the son of the owner of the Sons family house, who is also named Gus Sons [4]. These claims have not been substantiated. Danielle's statement threw Tuck into a rage, and Tuck punched Ritchseson. The first punch was so powerful it broke Ritcheson's cheekbone and knocked him unconscious, stated Red Duke, the emergency physician who treated him. Tuck and Turner dragged the teenager outside, and for the next five hours stripped him naked, burned the victim with cigarettes, choked him with a gardening hose and proceeded to engrave a swastika into the victim's chest, Tuck kicked Ritcheson with steel-toed boots, and furthermore violently kicked a PVC pipe up his rectum several inches while yelling racial slurs. After the sodomy ended, the perpetrators poured bleach on the victim's body to conceal the evidence of the crime. The victim stayed in the hospital for three months, requiring to undergo close to forty surgeries and contemplating a possible life of infirmity, because of the PVC pipe had perforated his bladder and caused extensive internal injuries. The night after the assault, his lungs failed and he was placed on a ventilator.
Later in December 2006, Tuck and Turner were both convicted of aggravated sexual assault. Tuck was sentenced to life in prison, and Turner was sentenced to 90 years. They both will not be eligible for parole until 2035 at the earliest. Tuck has since appealed his life sentence.
On July 1, 2007 Ritcheson committed suicide by jumping from the deck of the MS Ecstasy, a cruise ship bound for Cozumel, Mexico. The incident happened at around 7:30 a.m. [5] (as quoted by KTRK) to 8:35 a.m. [6] (as quoted by KHOU) aboard the Ecstasy, according to a written statement from Carnival Cruise Lines. The ship's crew pulled the 18-year-old's body from the water about 45 minutes afterward. Carnival Cruise Lines officials would not confirm his identity; Rick Dovalina, head of LULAC in Houston, said tonight that he confirmed through the family's attorney, Carlos Leon, that Ritcheson died. Ritcheson's identity and photographs were revealed by the media after his death [7].
