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.
Well arent you perfect... *rolling eyes*
Anyone who works a nightshift at a small business in West Philadelphia runs a good risk of being robbed or shot.
Many graveyard shift convenience store clerks will be shot to death this year - does that mean they were in the drug trade?
It's not a glorification of his mistakes. It's approval of his decision to right those mistakes and take responsibility for them.
ya know, that is what is wrong with America and why our families are falling apart. People afraid to speak up about what is right and what is wrong.
Just think if people had spoken up 40 years ago?
I would read a little further into the discussion....there might be more to his killing than a random act of violence.
Actually, I think it is poor editing or lazy reporting or bad writing.
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....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.
Diamond, (should read Pough), who had full-custody of his daughter, had planned to work in construction after graduating next June.
The daughter's name would be Diamond Pough.
Mary Magdalene "made a mistake". The woman taken in adultery made a mistake. St Peter made a number of mistakes. Yet Jesus loved them and forgave when they chose to follow the right road.
Why are you less forgiving?
Are we then allowed to call wrong, wrong, and right, right?
There are two or three million young men in this country who need to do what he did but decide not to do it.
He was leading the way to a better reality.
He may not necessarily have been working in the drug trade NOW. But he had skeletons in his closet, young men DO NOT consider mortality until it stares them in the face. He knew something was coming, for his current affairs or recent past.
I'm sorry but I don't grant "benefit of the doubt" to anyone I don't personally know. I may be wrong from time to time, but it does no harm, because my personal judgements do not carry the force of law.
Prayers for this little girl...I pray she finds a loving, stable, two-parent home to be raised in.
But after 40 years of people being afraid to "cast the first stone" or call evil, evil and good, good,...I don't hold out much hope, especially in the inner cities.
Good Lord... Do you ever stop?
Are you on some "God hates Fags" type of crusade against people who have made sinful mistakes?
Trust me, you are doing more harm for the Christian cause (me being one, Southern Baptist to be precise) than helping when you point at peoples flaws when yours flaws are equally, if not more noticable.
Its my judgement that Jesus would not use a story such as this to promote a sinless life. His "casting of the first stone" would be done prior to the tragedy yet he would praise the man for taking the responsibility and showing courage to be a man.
But by all means Mr Pharisee, continue to judge others. It is only you who will have to answer to God for the actions you take here on Earth.
Like I said, many of my heroes made mistakes. But they are not my heroes for their mistakes.
How do you know it was Mary Magdalene? The Bible does not say it was her. THe woman who was taken in adultery is not honored for being a harlot. She is honored for her service to Christ.
Peter isn't glorified for denying Christ, is he? No.
He did wrong to get a woman pregnant without marrying her.
He did right to take responsibility for the consequences of his immoral action.
There will be more rejoicing for the sheep that was lost than for the 99 who were not.
If he was involved in "nefarious" activities then clearly he did not take full responsibility for his mistakes and actually chose to commit new wrongdoings.
That's just an if, however, and it is in itself wrong to assume that he was.
He'd have the Prodigal Son shot if he had his druthers.
A little girl lost her father. A father that wanted to be a part of her life. Despite the options to not be responsible he took the hard road and that took some courage. For people to say that the child even being here was a mistake and judging him for it is so unbelievably bankrupt I don't know where to begin.
Correction. You said Mary Madgalene made mistaakes, but you did not say she was the one taken in adultery.
There, I made a mistake and took the correct action by admitting my mistake. Call People so they can write an article.
How can you say that? I thought you thought nothing is wrong or bad?
Anyway, will it change your mind if you find out he was involved in some nefarious activities that lead to his death? Probably not, cause it is all good with you, right?
I will wait to see what the police find out.
I pray this child find a loving, stable, two-parent home to be raised in.
Too bad people didn't speak up more forcefully 40 years ago about morality and right and wrong and we probably wouldn't have these prevailing situations....but then again they had people like you shouting at them that they were "holier than thou types, etc,....
BTW...I am a lady....
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