Posted on 01/03/2012 6:59:32 AM PST by A_perfect_lady
A woman grieving the shooting deaths of her son and granddaughter is now trying to come to grips with news that one of the accused is a longtime family friend whom the 7-year-old victim affectionately called "Uncle Mike."
Michael Bell, 21, played high school football with Jeremy Crane and spent many weekends at the Crane family's ranch-style home in suburban Indianapolis.
On Wednesday, Bell and another man were formally charged in the deaths of Crane, 21, and his niece, Kyleigh Crane.
Cathy Crane, Jeremy's mother and Kyleigh's grandmother, found the bodies Dec. 12 after returning home from work. She said family members had not had any falling out with Bell and are stunned about his alleged involvement in the killings.
(...) A probable cause affidavit filed Wednesday along with the formal charges says a surveillance camera filmed the pair boarding a city bus not long after the slayings... One man carried a loaded backpack onto the bus and the other a jumble of bulky items wrapped in a blanket, authorities allege. Police believe the backpack and blanket were filled with electronic games and other items stolen from the Crane's ranch-style home.
Prosecutors allege Bell showed little emotion as he watched television reports of the killings from his aunt's house...
Cathy Crane said her son and Bell met in the eighth-grade and became close friends who later played on the same high school football team. They spent weekends together horsing around at she and her husband David's home in Cumberland, a town on Indianapolis' far east side where urban sprawl gives way to farm fields.
The family provided Bell unwavering support during his rape trial, she said. He was also charged with criminal confinement, battery, criminal trespass and criminal mischief in two separate cases in 2009 and 2010...
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Yep, these losers fall into the second category.
Because they ignored the warning signs. I don’t know if it’s a liberal thing or a Christian thing, I’ve seen both types do it... it might just be a white thing, this tendency to ignore bad behavior and warning signs in minorities. But when I read that article, even without pictures, even without descriptors, even without the suspect being named Duwayne LaShane Jackson... I knew the deal instantly. So whichever mindset caused them to suppress their survival instincts, I don’t know. I only know that something did.
Country folk, and he’d been a labor union leader ~ national president for a while.
What a tragic and brutal betrayal.
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