A Victim of a Washington Street
A white-haired elderly gentleman steps out of his car, briefcase in hand and coat over his arm. He has called from the office to say that he is on the way. His wife is preparing supper. He can see the light shining inside his own from door. He looks forward to a fire and a cup of tea. It is a cold night.A few seconds later he is lying on the sidewalk in a pool of his own blood.
It doesn't happen very often, but it does happen in the capital city of the United States. Mr.John Stennis was the victim of a Washington street crime. He happened to be an important man in the government, but that is not why he was shot. What happened to him could happen to any of us.
Jonh Stennis who is 71, got out of his white Buick Electra at 7:40 p.m. outside his home at 3,609 Cumberland street. Two youths said ,"Get'em up."He put up no resistance. he handed over his wallet containing bank cards, a gold watch and the only money he had in his pockets--twenty-five cents.The youths said ,"We ought to school you any-way."Anyway they said. One bullet hit him in the leg. The other entered his chest just below the pocket of his suit, in narrowly missed his heart.
Jonh Stennis is a government official, but it is unlikely that the two young men knew who he was. What hurt them was that he had no more than twenty-five cents--not enough for two cuups of coffee. One is warned always to carry money on the streets of Washington.
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