Posted on 06/22/2010 11:52:35 AM PDT by presidio9
Since the shooting, the 2-year-old Rogucki twins have awakened each morning crying out for their murdered mother.
"They wake up ... saying, 'Mommy!'" their 19-year-old brother, Lorenzo Rogucki, reported.
"I hear them screaming my mother's name."
The twins were still sleeping at 10:30 a.m. Monday and not a sound came from the family's first-floor apartment in Coney Island as I spoke outside with the oldest of Victoria Rogucki's seven children.
"They know, but they don't know know," Lorenzo said of the twins. "They know their mother is not there in the morning."
To the right of the door stood a big floral display that his 9-year-old brother's Little League team sent to their mother's funeral on Friday. Abie Rogucki is a star pitcher.
"He hasn't been going to a lot of games lately," Lorenzo said. "My mother used to take him to all the baseball games. She came home, she knew how many strikes he had, how many hits he had."
Lorenzo paused.
"She was a mom. A real mother."
He looked across the small courtyard to where she had fallen after being struck by two of a flurry of bullets on June 9.
"My mom was right there," he said. "I was like 'Mom!'"
Lorenzo told me he got into a fight earlier in the day and his vanquished opponent had returned for a rematch.
His mother had come out to see what was causing all the commotion as one of the opponent's friends, identified by police as 29-year-old Isa Johnson, pulled a gun and started firing.
In an added twist, police say the others who had guns included the murdered woman's 17-year-old son, Ishmel Rogucki. He has been in custody since the night of the shooting and missed his mother's funeral. The grand jury's finding is pending.
"I just wish it was a dream," Lorenzo said.
He went back into the apartment. The twins, Jordan and Jayden, would soon be waking.
I gazed down to where the mother's lifeblood had seeped onto the pavement, and then across Surf Ave., to the Boardwalk, the beach and the water.
The seashore these days brings thoughts of the big oil spill down South, whose root cause is corporate greed, a reckless disregard for the welfare of others for the sake of making a few more dollars.
Corporate greed is also a major factor in the continuing blood spill at shootings across the country, too many here in New York. The leading voice against effective gun control is the NRA, which is a tool of the gun industry.
The primary goal of the gun industry is the same as that of the oil industry: to make money. The NRA's primary goal is to protect the gun industry's profits, however much blood is spilled.
And what profits they are!
One high-end manufacturer, Glock, revealed in a 1994 patent lawsuit that it rakes in 68% profit on each weapon.
BP had a net profit margin before the oil spill of 8.32%.
Google reports only 25%.
Meanwhile, the Rogucki twins cry out each morning.
"Mommy!"
I find it amazing that the gun industry still makes a weapon that floats in the air and magically fires off at random killing people.
They really need to stop that!!!!
Imagine, the New York Daily requires payment to place an add!!!
The nerve, they wouldn’t do that for *gasp* PROFIT, would they?!
His mother had come out to see what was causing all the commotion as one of the opponent's friends, identified by police as 29-year-old Isa Johnson, pulled a gun and started firing.
In an added twist, police say the others who had guns included the murdered woman's 17-year-old son, Ishmel Rogucki. He has been in custody since the night of the shooting and missed his mother's funeral. The grand jury's finding is pending.
This is an amazing article. Such a wonderful, innocent family! What evil gun makers!
How were these poor people to know that engaging in gun battles with (other) thugs carries the risk of being shot?
/sarc
Why didn't this mother demand that all of her sons come into the house and then call the police? Why did she accompany her gun-wielding son into battle? Whose fault is it that her children now have no mother?
7 kids - wheres the Daddy/Daddies?”
NOT Daddy......SPERM DONORS ONLY
Twins Jordan and Jayden sign card for gravely hurt mom, Victoria Rogucki (below), after Brooklyn shooting. She later died.
My favorite part about the way the Daily News handles these stories is that the truth is just never enough for them. Victoria's story is, of couse, unspeakably tragic. But what actually happened here is that she left her Brooklyn housing project in the late early morning to insert herself into a fight that her two oldest (of seven) kids were involved in. Nobody can blame her for this, and she obviously didn't deserve what she got, but she obviously knew that several of these people (including her son) were armed, and I personally find it hard to believe that she had the demeanor of Mother Theresa when it was going down.
Again, I feel terrible for her, and her younger children, but I can't think of even one reason that the gun industry and their evil huge profits might be responsible.
see post 25
From the headline, I thought the nasty gun murdered the mommy all by itself.
In an added twist, police say the others who had guns included the murdered woman's 17-year-old son, Ishmel Rogucki.Gee, she had a 17-year-old gangbanger living with her and got caught in the crossfire. Who'da thunk it?
Hey wait: Isn't the little leaguer named "Albie?"
One high-end manufacturer, Glock, revealed in a 1994 patent lawsuit that it rakes in 68% profit on each weapon.
BP had a net profit margin before the oil spill of 8.32%.
Google reports only 25%.”
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Since when is 25% less than 8.32%? Or is the moral of the story Google=good, BP and Glock=bad? Not that I’m a big fan of Gaston Glock who I feel will roll over in a heartbeat if he can protect his niche in the market.
Also, let’s hear some more about the backgound of the two primary actors in this tragedy, Isa and Ishmel.
It is the NRA’s fault or the gunsmith’s fault that Ms. Rogucki was caught in the crossfire when her own 17 y.o. son was one of the gunmen?
And it is posted under News/Crime on their site...unbelievable...
Haha!!! True! I felt bad in the beginning part when it was yapping on about the mother but then as soon as the POS lib writer launched into “profits”, “corporate greed”, and the NRA, I was yanked back into reality & puked in my mouth a little bit ;)
“That is one of the worst articles Ive ever read.”
Wow. You said it. That reporter needs to be ashamed of himself or herself. And the editor. The woman was not murdered, she was caught in a crossfire between her kids and some other kids. The emotional manipulation is breathtaking, and ascribing the tragedy to gun manufacturers is like blaming Ford for drunk driving tragedies. This wasn’t a news story, it was an editorial, a blatantly one-sided editorial at that.
No, see that part of the story is another tragic indictment of gun industry blood profits, because now mom's dead and big brother is going to jail when they need him most. Is it his fault that he didn't know he would go to jail for being caught illegally strapped at a homicide?
Anti-gun idiots have been spewing this exact lie for years. Gun makers are responsible for murders committed by teenage gang members in a cith with total gun control?
“Moronic article written by a moron. He does appear to understand though that his dream of a communist Amerika would be a lot easier if those pesky Americans didnt have guns. Its an Obama thing.”
On the contray...he and other leftists understand quite WELL that their “dreams of a communist Amerika would be a lot easier...” That’s the reason the left has worked to overturn the 2nd amendment so hard and for so long!
Somebody doesn’t want to admit that the kids got their mother killed.
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