First I would like to talk about my early life and where I grew up.
I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan . I have seen everything there is to see in Flint... and i've seen some things that I wish
I wouldn't have seen... for the things I wish I wouldn't have seen.. that's what I would like to write about.
It was about 4 years ago when I lived in Flint with my mother who had fallen victim to a really bad addiction after her father
passed away.. he was her backbone and when he died.. something just didn't seem right with her afterwards.
She lost everything that she had ever had or worked for including her house, car and even family members.
I never knew or would have thought that my mom could be taken away from me in just one second.. and what I mean by this is
The Shooting
My mom had decided to hit the roads early one morning to find something or some substance to take the pressure out of life.
Mom left home, and I watched TV like normal... 15 minutes down the road she came screaming and yelling and crying as she was in shock and complete panic. When she was finally able to talk she told me she had been shot at by 2 dealers at POINT BLANK RANGE after they attempted to rob and car jack her. I instantly loaded the SKS 7.62 up and proceeded to check the van outside for bullet holes.
Only one bullet hit the car and it was dead center of the Astro vans back hatch lid.
If the bullet were to hit a FT up and to the left.. my mom would have been killed just like that.
This may not sound to bad for some of you but this has actually costed me a great deal of stress
as I myself was diagnosed with PTSD. FOR INSTANCE
Every day I live with the terror of this nightmare. I picture myself in the van along with my mom.. riding along when two dealers approach the car and jump into to car jack us at knife point. I see them jumping out and then pulling their Glocks at point blank range and putting bullets into the car at point blank... Tink.... tink... bullets are now hitting the car.. my mom looks over to see my slumped against the window because a bullet hit me in the head or in the neck.
I replay that situation in my head each and every single day as if I were there with my mom when this happened. I can actually feel and smell the terror that she went through as if I were with her. It's like your body goes brisk/stone cold... your life flashes before your eyes...
It's one thing to hear about someone getting murdered or killed in Flint or on the daily news.. that's not a shocking surprise in flint.
You always want to believe that something like this could never ever happen to you.. but what happened to my mother... happens to a lot of other people who are NOT as lucky as she had been and are people just like you and i.
Now If im doing this wrong please let me know. I've never really blogged before so im not sure if its supposed to be like some kind of journal or what..
I was born and raised in Flint, Michigan . I have seen everything there is to see in Flint... and i've seen some things that I wish
I wouldn't have seen... for the things I wish I wouldn't have seen.. that's what I would like to write about.
It was about 4 years ago when I lived in Flint with my mother who had fallen victim to a really bad addiction after her father
passed away.. he was her backbone and when he died.. something just didn't seem right with her afterwards.
She lost everything that she had ever had or worked for including her house, car and even family members.
I never knew or would have thought that my mom could be taken away from me in just one second.. and what I mean by this is
The Shooting
My mom had decided to hit the roads early one morning to find something or some substance to take the pressure out of life.
Mom left home, and I watched TV like normal... 15 minutes down the road she came screaming and yelling and crying as she was in shock and complete panic. When she was finally able to talk she told me she had been shot at by 2 dealers at POINT BLANK RANGE after they attempted to rob and car jack her. I instantly loaded the SKS 7.62 up and proceeded to check the van outside for bullet holes.
Only one bullet hit the car and it was dead center of the Astro vans back hatch lid.
If the bullet were to hit a FT up and to the left.. my mom would have been killed just like that.
This may not sound to bad for some of you but this has actually costed me a great deal of stress
as I myself was diagnosed with PTSD. FOR INSTANCE
Every day I live with the terror of this nightmare. I picture myself in the van along with my mom.. riding along when two dealers approach the car and jump into to car jack us at knife point. I see them jumping out and then pulling their Glocks at point blank range and putting bullets into the car at point blank... Tink.... tink... bullets are now hitting the car.. my mom looks over to see my slumped against the window because a bullet hit me in the head or in the neck.
I replay that situation in my head each and every single day as if I were there with my mom when this happened. I can actually feel and smell the terror that she went through as if I were with her. It's like your body goes brisk/stone cold... your life flashes before your eyes...
It's one thing to hear about someone getting murdered or killed in Flint or on the daily news.. that's not a shocking surprise in flint.
You always want to believe that something like this could never ever happen to you.. but what happened to my mother... happens to a lot of other people who are NOT as lucky as she had been and are people just like you and i.
Now If im doing this wrong please let me know. I've never really blogged before so im not sure if its supposed to be like some kind of journal or what..