Once in a while a story in the news about an unknown individual really gets me. The Chronicle is good at writing stories about everyday people, not just rich blonde girls.
This time, it was about Canon Christian Jones II, a freshman at Tuskegee University and a graduate of Berkeley High. For those of you who don't know, Berkeley High is in downtown Berkeley on MLK and is the only high school in Berkeley (I believe). Canon was a leader of the Communications, Arts and Sciences program, a sort of minischool within the 3,000 students at Berkeley High. He had been a volunteer at a Senior Housing facility since the 7th grade.
He was out walking by himself at Tuskegee University, when two people, a man and a woman, pulled over, and the man put a gun in his face and demanded his money. He gave him an empty wallet. The woman then searched his pockets and told the man, "Quentin, I found some keys" or something like that. Quentin, fearing that he could now be identified shot Canon in the neck. A passerby found Canon dead in a pool of blood. This boy was at King Middle School and Berkeley High at the same time I was three blocks up the road at CAL.
Yet another murder, NOT committed by a person with a gun. OH WAIT.
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