Posted on 11/22/2005 7:20:33 AM PST by ncountylee
PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 21 (UPI) -- An 18-year-old single father whose struggle raising his toddler daughter was featured in People magazine has been killed in Philadelphia.
Terrell Pough was shot in the head on his way home from work Thursday night and later died at Temple University Hospital, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
Police said they have no suspects but do have a possible lead. No further details of the slaying were released.
The August issue of People profiled Pough, who worked as the night manger at a local restaurant while attending school full-time and raising his daughter, Diamond, who will be 2 on Nov. 27.
"She's what I work for, what I live for, why I wake up," he told People. "She's everything."
Diamond, who had full-custody of his daughter, had planned to work in construction after graduating next June.
"If something ever happens to me, no one can ever tell her that her dad didn't take care of her," he told People.
Once again, I hope you don't use that language around your children....but I have a feeling....
Which is precisely why you're coming under such attach on this quite conservative and largely Christian board.
Oh no, I am not perceived as popular on a thread with 150 messages out of 200,000 plus users on FR. Doing what is right is not always popular, as a matter of fact, it is usually unpopular. Jesus taught that lesson.
I have found that when people have to start saying they are more popular than me...I have won the argument.
Good day.
Sounds like the plantation overseers spotted an escapee and sent out some regulators to teach the others not to try.
True, but irrelevant. He made a mistake and did the best he could, if one accepts the story at face value.
Oh sure we are... When someone has a heart which spits on the grave of a dead father for making mistakes we should call it wrong! Call his sin what it was, a sin... Then realize we have all sinned just as deeply against God and are all equally deserving of our own little room in hell. To read this story and have a hard heart about it is sad..
I think we should wait to hear more from the police on what circumstances lead to his death, don't you? He may or may not have been involved in some nefarious activities, we should wait and see.
And, no, I am not ashamed of myself. I only wish this child had a loving, stable, two-parent home.
Will you be changing your mind if we find out from the police that he was involved in some nefarious activities. Or will he still be a role model for the rest of young men to look up to?
Just because a couple is 'married' does NOT make them ready to have children.
Please dont lie about what I said, I never said he was a role model...
It sure does help....
I wonder what some of them on this thread will say if and I say IF we learn that he was involved in some nefarious activities that helped lead to his death? <<<<<<<<<<<
Whether he was involved in nefarious activities remains to be seen, but many of those shot and killed in "bad" neighborhoods are doing nothing but sitting, walking or driving. Non-gang members, not just rival gang members, are often targets of predators; teenagers are shot with their arms full of books sitting on a bus bench. That he was shot by no means indicates he ran drugs or was a gangster. Let's find out more, then you guys can castigate with more precision.
I do believe the kid admitted his mistakes as he took on the role of being the child's father. I wish I had a nickel for every cocky kid who had proudly told me his various children would be raised "on the county".
Two parent homes don't necessarily make an 'ideal' home.
I am willing to wait and see what the police have to say.
Yes.
But he made a mistake and was doing his best to do the right thing from there on out.
The best people in the world are not those who believe themselves to be perfect, but those who try their best to learn from their mistakes.
I am very sad this story did not have a better ending. I pray that his daughter will find a better life, and always appreciate what he tried to do for her.
Well I view his death and the fact that he was apparently attempting to do the right thing by his daughter as two different things.
His death - well we have no idea what happened.
His life with his daughter - he was obviously doing the right thing in taking responsibility for the result of his (albeit) sinful action.
Of course we need to speak out against wrong doing - however this young man obviously took responsibility for his wrong doing in having premarital sex.
Okay.
Yep, married people never get killed leaving behind orphans.
I know that. I was responding to the idiocy of the poster that supported the view that a two parent home would apparently cure everything. I believe what this man did is admirable and should be held up as an example to others. What disgusts me is the stupidity of some here that would condemn a man even at the time of his death for doing something extraordinary
But why not feature it? The Bible is full of stories like this. In fact almost ALL the stories are like this.
It is not lauding him for his original screw up...it is lauding him for doing the right thing AFTER he screwed up.
His story may well have served as a warning to some who had not yet made mistakes...and as an inspiration to those who needed the courage to change their ways.
It's called redemption. It is the narrative of the ENTIRE Christian faith.
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