Today is the end of National Victims Rights week; a week where attention is drawn to crime victims’ issues, their struggles, their recovery, and their lives.
Yesterday, April 26th, our officers responded to a horrific crime committed in broad daylight near a crowded commercial shopping center. Several eye-witnesses watched in horror as a man attacked and killed a young woman, then fled on foot. The woman was Morgan Myers, a 30 year old Wal-Mart employee and mother. She was a friend to many. As of today, there are dozens or more tributes written on her Facebook wall, giving but a glimpse of the impact one person can have on their friends and family.
The “alleged” assailant is her former boyfriend Michael Young, also 30 years old. Six days prior Morgan was granted a permanent protection order, in an effort to protect her from Young who has made threats of violence against her. Yesterday that protection order failed.
What a sad conclusion to a week set aside to honor victims of crimes and to give hope that victimization doesn’t have to last forever. A week that seeks to reassure us that people deserve to be treated with dignity and respect. There are many victims nationwide who have experienced the terrible wrath of their fellow-man this week, but few who suffered more than Morgan Myers.
Next week when you are going about your business and your daily routines, please take a moment to think about the many people trapped in unhealthy relationships, those being abused or assaulted and those who will lose their lives right here, in the greatest country on earth.
PLEASE! Do not let the System Fail this Victim! The System has Failed Many others with the Release of Dale Dubry! I know there are Nervous victims here! and I know he has Revenge in mind for the ones who put him away! PLEASE Chief Make HIM PAY!? Please!
Love you Chief. I have personally watched you stand up and be a community leader with a fathers like presence to remind of us of the many men and women including nurses doctors police and military who fight everyday to protect our rights. I know Morgan and pray for her to get justice and for Mike to get the help that now you can only provide. We all know many victims. I hope Morgan’s death will serve a greater purpose than we can fathom right now. Her beautiful kind smile will be forever burned into my memory and remind me to never judge and listen listen listen.
I just don’t understand. How can someone admit to killing someone 20 years ago sit on deathrow for those same 20 years then turn around and through our wonderful appeals process and revictomize the witnesses and the family of the slain man. Try to help me understand this!!!!!
Heather – I can’t help you understand it. The system stumbled and now it’s getting back on it’s feet again. The Schaeffers will see justice someday.
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