Post by LadyBlue on Apr 19, 2017 11:59:30 GMT -5
I'm so used to posting horrific articles...I hope that what I do here in this website matters...I've yet to know and may never know, but I do it because I truly care about our human race. I care that we as a nation are becoming immune to death and bloodshed. I haven't posted anything about Steven here because on Sunday when the news broke, I posted it on my FB, I was so upset. I'm directly across the border from Ohio, in Northwestern PA, about and hours drive for me to Erie.
I heard about the cell ping in Erie, and the first thing I thought about was that he was heading to NY state into Buffalo. I'm about two hours from Buffalo. I also thought that he may head into Jamestown, NY, which is only a half and hour from me.
My heart hurt for all the families involved. Poor Mr Godwin, just ate dinner at the family gathering for Easter Sunday dinner, left there to pick up cans and go home and his life ended at the hands of a killer. A killer who decided to end his life for no damn good reason other than his own sick issues.
Then there's Joy Lane, who broke up with Steven for reasons that I'm not really interested in, (her choice), who's good name became something that will forever in her mind be linked with a fatal shooting victim. What must she be going thru.
There's Steven's mother, who by all accounts didn't listen to him, maybe he cried wolf too much, none the less someone SHOULD have paid more attention there. As a mother myself, I've had my own personal life downfalls, but the one thing that I can say, is that if my son came to me and told me that he was thinking about suicide I wouldn't ignore that call for help. Now look what she has to live with...
Mr Godwin's family....I can't even imagine what they must be going thru. To lose a family member that way...well, God Bless them, it's going to be a long road to any type of healing. I so wish that I could bring some light into their darkness, but how....
Then there's Steven. By all accounts he was a gentle loving teddy bear. A gentle loving Teddy Bear who armed himself, went out to find an innocent victim, and take it upon himself to rip a hole into a man just walking down the street. Where did Steven's mind go that day? WTF happened in his mind?
I know that we all possess the ability to flip out, I've flipped out numerous times,
but the thing that I didn't do was kill someone. How does a persons mind flip out that badly, to go from not having any type of record, no abusive background, a loving teddy bear to a freakin murderer? This has me reeling quite frankly.
I've been horribly abused in my life and haven't raised a hand to kill those abusers. So, is it something that some people possess and others don't, that "KILL FACTOR". Some are capable of crossing that line. It even goes deeper than that.
He done lost his MIND. To realize what you're about to do, and still carry thru goes wayyyy beyond my understanding.
He wanted to appear TOUGH, even called his friends and boasted about killing more.
Then takes himself out, (which he should have done in the first place if he was that bad off), in a most COWARDLY way. Right there I can get a glimpse of his troubled mind, he didn't feel that he had any power, he was weak and he knew it, his sexuality and masculinity were threatened and testosterone led the way. He HAD to prove points. Well Steven, you proved your point, but you didn't show your manhood by doing it, you didn't show that you honored life, people, even yourself, and maybe that's the point of my rant.
Knowing that the ending to this story took place so close to me, that I couldn't reach out and grab poor Mr Godwin and snatch him away from a killer, that I couldn't reach out to his family, that I couldn't tell Joy Lane that her name is beautiful and she should forever cherish it and not think about what a sick man did. That I couldn't reach out to Steven, who totally flipped, his mind went south, maybe his life wasn't a bed of roses, maybe his mother who wouldn't listen had NEVER listened.
Maybe his manhood was indeed threatened because sexually he didn't know which way to go, and had no one to talk to about it.
Please take the time to listen to people. Even if you've heard it all before, there's always something that you can learn. Take your minds off money, work, toys,
etc and take the time to LISTEN.
I'm putting some of the articles here, no one needs to see Mr Godwin being shot so that video WILL NOT be posted here if I can help it. If it's somehow attached to an article that I post, please don't watch it, and I apologize ahead of time.
heavy.com/news/2017/04/stevie-steve-stephens-cleveland-facebook-live-video-shooting-shooter-gunman-killer-photos-pictures-victims/
I heard about the cell ping in Erie, and the first thing I thought about was that he was heading to NY state into Buffalo. I'm about two hours from Buffalo. I also thought that he may head into Jamestown, NY, which is only a half and hour from me.
My heart hurt for all the families involved. Poor Mr Godwin, just ate dinner at the family gathering for Easter Sunday dinner, left there to pick up cans and go home and his life ended at the hands of a killer. A killer who decided to end his life for no damn good reason other than his own sick issues.
Then there's Joy Lane, who broke up with Steven for reasons that I'm not really interested in, (her choice), who's good name became something that will forever in her mind be linked with a fatal shooting victim. What must she be going thru.
There's Steven's mother, who by all accounts didn't listen to him, maybe he cried wolf too much, none the less someone SHOULD have paid more attention there. As a mother myself, I've had my own personal life downfalls, but the one thing that I can say, is that if my son came to me and told me that he was thinking about suicide I wouldn't ignore that call for help. Now look what she has to live with...
Mr Godwin's family....I can't even imagine what they must be going thru. To lose a family member that way...well, God Bless them, it's going to be a long road to any type of healing. I so wish that I could bring some light into their darkness, but how....
Then there's Steven. By all accounts he was a gentle loving teddy bear. A gentle loving Teddy Bear who armed himself, went out to find an innocent victim, and take it upon himself to rip a hole into a man just walking down the street. Where did Steven's mind go that day? WTF happened in his mind?
I know that we all possess the ability to flip out, I've flipped out numerous times,
but the thing that I didn't do was kill someone. How does a persons mind flip out that badly, to go from not having any type of record, no abusive background, a loving teddy bear to a freakin murderer? This has me reeling quite frankly.
I've been horribly abused in my life and haven't raised a hand to kill those abusers. So, is it something that some people possess and others don't, that "KILL FACTOR". Some are capable of crossing that line. It even goes deeper than that.
He done lost his MIND. To realize what you're about to do, and still carry thru goes wayyyy beyond my understanding.
He wanted to appear TOUGH, even called his friends and boasted about killing more.
Then takes himself out, (which he should have done in the first place if he was that bad off), in a most COWARDLY way. Right there I can get a glimpse of his troubled mind, he didn't feel that he had any power, he was weak and he knew it, his sexuality and masculinity were threatened and testosterone led the way. He HAD to prove points. Well Steven, you proved your point, but you didn't show your manhood by doing it, you didn't show that you honored life, people, even yourself, and maybe that's the point of my rant.
Knowing that the ending to this story took place so close to me, that I couldn't reach out and grab poor Mr Godwin and snatch him away from a killer, that I couldn't reach out to his family, that I couldn't tell Joy Lane that her name is beautiful and she should forever cherish it and not think about what a sick man did. That I couldn't reach out to Steven, who totally flipped, his mind went south, maybe his life wasn't a bed of roses, maybe his mother who wouldn't listen had NEVER listened.
Maybe his manhood was indeed threatened because sexually he didn't know which way to go, and had no one to talk to about it.
Please take the time to listen to people. Even if you've heard it all before, there's always something that you can learn. Take your minds off money, work, toys,
etc and take the time to LISTEN.
I'm putting some of the articles here, no one needs to see Mr Godwin being shot so that video WILL NOT be posted here if I can help it. If it's somehow attached to an article that I post, please don't watch it, and I apologize ahead of time.
heavy.com/news/2017/04/stevie-steve-stephens-cleveland-facebook-live-video-shooting-shooter-gunman-killer-photos-pictures-victims/