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.
It sounds like a domestic violence/lover’s quarrel more than ‘guns’ to blame!
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Cops charged her son Ishmel Rogucki, 17, with criminal possession of a weapon, although it was not clear if he fired any shots - including those that struck his mother.
Three other people also were wounded in the gun battle.
Investigators believe bullets went flying soon after Ishmel Rogucki and his brother Lorenzo, 19, tried to pull their sister Felicia, 16, away from her older boyfriend in the courtyard of the O’Dwyer Gardens Houses.
“My wife was trying to break it up,” whispered Maldonado.
Felicia’s boyfriend and his brother tried to flee the bloodshed in a 2006 Ford Mustang, which they crashed into an SUV on nearby W. 16th St. moments later, police said.
Investigators are exploring whether the brothers or their friends shot Victoria Rogucki, police sources said. Lorenzo Rogucki also was being questioned by cops.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/ny_crime/2010/06/11/2010-06-11_untitled__2coney11m.html#ixzz0rcCzTl2f