Echo in here?
Portland police have made an arrest in connection with the murder at Northeast 82nd and Thompson Saturday night. The KGW story on the arrest includes a familiar refrain:
At 23-years old, Mandley has already spent five years behind bars for shooting a girl in the head in 2004. The 14-year-old girl was an unintended victim when Mandley opened fire on a group in Northeast Portland.Great.Mia McCorvey was temporarily paralyzed after the bullet stopped just half an inch from her brain. She was a member of the Jefferson High School Pep Squad and hoped to dance again someday after surgery and rehab.
Meantime, Mandley was released at the end of 2009 and was on community supervision through the Multnomah County Gang Unit.
Sounds an awful lot like the track record of the guy who allegedly fractured some poor five-year-old girl's skull with a frying pan in a home invasion in the Alameda neighborhood a couple of weeks ago:
At age 14, Parker pleaded no contest to first-degree manslaughter in the Jan. 16, 1999 fatal shooting of Markus Anthony Harris, 20 , and the wounding of 19-year-old Laquandre L. Taylor, then 19. Taylor was shot in the neck. Harris was found shot in the back and chest in an alley in the 3100 block of Northeast Sumner Street. Parker was sentenced to spend until April 2006 in custody. At the time, police said Harris and Taylor were visiting someone at an apartment building when Harris and another man got into a fight. Parker went into the apartment and came out with a gun.At this moment, we are not feeling great confidence in our "juvenile justice" system. Maybe teenagers who shoot people need to be kept in jail for a long, long time.
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Comments (6)
Our current justice system misses a lot.
But, at least it's keeping the vigilantes off the streets.
Posted by David E Gilmore | July 1, 2011 8:59 AM
Maybe teenagers should stop having babies they cannot take care of.
Posted by Pom Mom | July 1, 2011 9:28 AM
There is a social aspect to this tragedy that I don't quite know how to articulate.
Both of L.J.s' mom and dad worked through addiction issues to become respectable, interesting admirable citizens. Lucy, L.J.s' mom is very active in the "Miracles" club. Many members of this club have a past history of frequent encounters with our police force and justice system.
BUT, the word on the street was to cooperate, work with the cops, report anything and everything to the police. And the killer was caught quickly. These are people who went through the justice system and came out the other side better people.
And incredibly wise.
Why? How? What worked right for them? And now in the middle of this terrible tragedy they still trust society.
Posted by JAR | July 1, 2011 2:07 PM
Maybe should be kept in jail for a very long time? You think?
Posted by Canucken | July 1, 2011 3:59 PM
Forget it Jack, it Puddletown.
Posted by HMLA-267 | July 1, 2011 4:11 PM
Here in Nevada they arrest and try most of these juvenile criminals as adults. There is currently a 13 year old that was involved in an assault and murder here in Reno; who will likely be tried as an adult due to his active participation in the crime.
Posted by Dave A. | July 2, 2011 7:14 AM