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News & ArtsSaturday, February 27, 2010
Crime Today in Narratology
Posted by Charles Mudede on Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:02 AM
CNN:
Powder Springs, Georgia (CNN) — At school, Rajaan Bennett was the senior with the shiny future — the honors student and star running back who led his Georgia high school team to its first undefeated season.This sad, sad story is not unclassifiable. The narrative category it fits into? "Ricky!!!"He'd just gotten a full scholarship to Vanderbilt University. He wanted to be an architect.
But at home, Bennett was the man of the family. And that is where a gunman with a grudge against his mother found him, police say. The 18-year-old with hopes of someday providing for his family died protecting them. He summoned help when he, his mother, younger sister and his uncle were under threat.
Sometime after midnight on February 18, his mother's former boyfriend, Clifton Steger, 39, came to the woodsy, two-story stone house in Powder Springs, Georgia, with a .22-caliber revolver in his hand, police say. Upset over a recent breakup, he forced Bennett, his mother and sister into a bathroom. They brought a phone with them and Bennett called 911.
When police arrived, Bennett's mother, Narjaketha Bennett, ran out the front door. She was hysterical.
Gunshots rang out. When the shooting stopped, a bullet was lodged in Rajaan Bennett's chest. He died on his bathroom floor.
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How ghastly. Tragic and sad in so many categories that it probably is unclassifiable. Rajaan Bennett RIP.
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