Opening bid is two cigarettes for these soon2B death-row newbies.
Posted on 01/16/2006 8:58:29 AM PST by Caipirabob
Two witnesses saw the brutal slaying of a homeless man in a Fort Lauderdale park, an arrest report released Sunday reveals.
The two watched as Brian Hooks and Thomas Daugherty walked up to Norris Gaynor on Thursday morning, baseball bats in hand, according to Fort Lauderdale police. Moments later, the witnesses saw Daugherty smash his bat into Gaynor's chest and head, the report says, leaving him unconscious and dying on the bench he chose as his bed.
(Excerpt) Read more at sun-sentinel.com ...
Opening bid is two cigarettes for these soon2B death-row newbies.
They look like 'Brokeback Morons' to me.
It's always nice to see citizens line up against scum.
The one on the right has a purdy mouf!......
Thanks to that unconstitutional decision made by 5 black robed liberal tyrants in the SCOTUS, which based on a foreign treaty neither signed by the president nor ratified by congress, these 2 scumbags will not be facing the death penalty.
I hope Justice Roberts and Alito will be up to fixing the travesty that is the supreme court.
My bet is they don't get the death penalty. I'll be surprised if the State Attorney seeks the death penalty.
Then we must hope they live a long time in trying circumstances.
This was a senseless crime. One person was killed and others seriously injured. These men not only screwed up other people's lives, but screwed up their own.
I don't think these two are going to be very popular in prison. A lot of people there have been down on their luck at times in life.
Good luck 'men'...
They soon will be....
Still waiting for any reasons for why they did this. I would imagine the cops will be looking at their computers for any insights.
"The two witnesses watched as Daugherty and Hooks, armed with baseball bats, confronted Gaynor, the arrest report stated. Daugherty beat Gaynor about the head and chest "while Hooks stood by," it says. The witnesses told police they didn't see Hooks deliver any blows to Gaynor."
these "witnesses" also deserve at least a good slapping around for being just spectators during a murder! They most likely could have prevented the death.
Dang... you beat me to it.
tough on them, i hope they like salad...
Drifter Norris Gaynor, 45, did not survive severe blows to his head early Thursday. Gaynor was one of three homeless men attacked in downtown Fort Lauderdale or near a church near the beach early that morning. Police are still hunting the killers -- two to four young men who were armed with sticks or baseball bats.
His last moments.
If they were in Vermont, they'd get 6 months.
I think in "Grand Theft Auto" there are opportunities to beat your enemies with baseball bats.
Not saying the video game "caused" anything, but maybe the TV screen just wasn't real enough for these boys anymore.
Whatever - they did it and they will pay for their actions.
That poor man....
I believe scond degree murder is likely the direction the defense counsel will try to take it. They'll argue that their clients did not intend to kill the victims; they just wanted to savagely beat them.
I don't expect it to work. Premeditation can happen in a moment and intent to kill can be inferred from the savage nature of the attack.
My guess is that they are just really bad people. I hope they never get out of jail.
Can't you see that this is just a desperate cry for help from these poor little kids? No doubt these boys are the TRUE victims here. Victims of George Bush. His trashing of the economy no doubt led to severe hardships endured by the families of these two, which in turn caused major family tragedies that forced these boys to do what they did.
Didn't we warn you this is what would happen if Republicans ever got control of the government and got to slash and burn all the social programs? Probably some early-childhood assistance welfare program that got cut by the heartless GOP would have saved these two well-meaning (but just a little bit mixed up) young lads.
If they're smart, they'll announce that they were only beating up on registered Republicans. Then they'll get the full weight of liberal authors and Hollywood celebrities on their side, raising legal defense $$$ by selling autographed baseball bats on their website.
Oh, boy, Florida again. A few years ago someone who regularly wintered in Florida said his family wouldn't be going back. I asked why, and he said, 'it's changed'. (They're in North Carolina until Spring.)
I also sounds like Hooks was also basically a witness, albeit one with a weapon (the bat). Daugherty is the one who will get major time, I hope. But what about Hooks do you think?
Their brains don't work like an adult's, plus kids commit acts in a group, even just two of them, that they wouldn't do alone. Presumably, this will be part of their defense. Finger pointing. "He made me do it."
Ummm....these kids were upper middle class. One was captain of his in-line skating team and tried to start a fishing club in high school. The other was described as a camo-wearing "redneck" by a classmate, who liked to go into the Everglades and have bonfires and race fast cars.
The Sun-Sentinal has surveillance camera video of one of the attacks. Brutal.
Wellie-Wellie-Wellie.
Watch the video -- "just" one of the attacks, not the murder. Hooks was swinging, too.
Thank you.
dude... in the GTA games you can use just about anything to kill somebody - screwdrivers, bats, flamethrowers, RPGs, grenades, minigun, molotov cocktails, rambo knives, knuckles, remote IED type bombs and any major gun you can imagine.
Charlotte York is alone and homeless, and likely has been for about 15 years. Sleeping behind office buildings, in a covered garage or church parking lots, close enough to touch the sanctuary walls where she feels safest.
She has survived many beatings; the most recent on the Sunday before Thanksgiving when the gash across the bridge of her nose sent her to Broward General Medical Center for several days. Later, she returns to the dreary place of the attack, where she had been sleeping for several weeks.
By some measures, Charlotte doesn't fit the profile of the long-term homeless. Those who know her at the Cooperative Feeding Program say she's not a drug user or an alcoholic. She has no felony arrests in Florida.
Her mental state fluctuates between paranoia -- "I'm under surveillance," she whispers over the phone one morning -- and the sharpness of a feisty, independent woman.
"It's not fair. They treat homeless people like garbage. Everybody was cruel to me."
She shares a few rules of survival. Don't let anyone see you cry. Never show fear. Don't sleep at one place too long. Stay hidden. Keep off the sidewalks and public places.
"That's the fastest way to get arrested," she scoffs. "You have to keep moving. That's the scariest part. ... It's not a normal way to live. It's a horrible way to live."
Charlotte likely would qualify for a bed at an assisted living facility, where she would surrender her Social Security check and her independence. She refuses, calling such places "mental institutions." She despises homeless shelters as well.
Marlene Holder, director of client services at the Cooperative Feeding Program, says Charlotte has been placed at shelters, but she refuses to stay. "We're all sympathetic to Charlotte, but she doesn't follow the rules," Holder says.
"I have no idea how she survives," Holder says. "Homeless people, especially women, usually try to make friends. Charlotte is a loner. She doesn't feel that she needs any assisted living. She wants a place of her own. She wants to make a pot of soup and be left alone."
Bruce Harris, of the Cooperative Feeding Program, has befriended Charlotte. He hopes someone will offer her a room or maybe an old trailer, someplace with a roof over her head. He fears she won't survive another beating, or that she'll die on the street.
"What is outrageous to me is that someone one like that, in the autumn years of her life, should be sitting in the rocking chair in front of the fireplace somewhere," Harris says, "instead of surviving a beating by a 2-by-4."
Charlotte says she doesn't want charity. She wants to earn her keep.
"I want to work. I want to plant seeds. I make to make butter," she says.
They may well wish that they recieve the death penalty.
Death is the quick/easy way out. There are many things that they will face which are worse than death. Pray that the other inmates keep them alive for a very long time.
you know jagger was considered for that role.
And no one even called the police? Where are the cell phones? Oh yes, maybe they didn't have one but nonetheless you could sure as hell race to a phone or race out of the alley screamiang and shouting help. I hope this man is at peace and I hope these two get their just desserts.
Interesting.
When"the brothers"at Starke find out that this crime had a possible racial component to it the ish will REALLY hit the fan for these lovable little boys from Plantation High.
"You gonna do some praying fer me, boy. And you better pray good!"
I agree. As vicious as this attack was I don't think it was premeditated. I don't think they were actually out to kill someone. That being said, they're going to spend a significant amount of their adult lives in the Florida State Pententiary and they deserve nothing less. Life is going to suck for them for a long while. I imagine they both are crapping their pants and crying like little girls right about now. Oh well. No sympathy from me.
Like Eric and Dylan at Columbine, they probably fed and encouraged each other's psychopathic thoughts until they had each other convinced that acting upon them would be "fun."
I'm surprised the press isn't playing up the racial component of the attacks.
It would be kinder than what is waiting for them in prison.
Evil blogs strike again...
I dunno. I play GTA:SA and use the golf club for beatings. In real life, I have yet to break 90 on 18 holes. Go figure. : (
They'll be on the prison football team, from tight end to wide receiver.
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