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!"
The primary goal of the gun industry is the same as that of the oil industry: to make money.
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Well DUH... you commie pigs!
Definitely the fault of the gun. The gun should go to jail.
Head spinningly stupid story. I feel so sad for the family, but.................
FIFY
Judging from the names, they must be upper middle class white anglo saxons.
Just think what would happen if a SUV ever got a gun? The HORROR!
“Corporate greed killed my Mommy!”
Send all the guns to GITMO!!
Um, where’s the barf alert?
That is one of the worst articles I’ve every read.
The Left dreams of a world in which no business ever makes money. I suppose the ideal would be for all corporations to lose money every year. That would prove that they aren't Bad Guys after all.
An obvious WAAAAHMBULANCE situation.
With that headline you needed a barf alert???
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 didn’t have guns. It’s an Obama thing.
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.
So I guess the author wants the government to force Glock to sell at a lower price and profit. Since this is New York and I doubt anyone involved had a very hard to get handgun permit, that means every gun there was already illegal. Are they supposed to be double illegal? Add on top of that sob story that the victim's own son who had an pistol that was illegal because it's New York and illegal again because he was under age.
Maybe if you weren't a gang member living with your mom, she wouldn't have been cut down in a hail of gunfire directed at you.
Comprende estupido?
Didn’t read it all, but I take from the report that guns attacked and killed somebodies mommy. Damn guns, when will they stop killing people?
7 kids - where’s the Daddy/Daddies?
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