A short blog, a big problem–can anyone help this Cami victim?
Can anyone help this victim of Cami’s “On Newark” plan?
I know there are many such but this story struck a never because I knew a young man named Michael Davis who worked at St. Benedict’s Prep. He lived in the South Ward and walked through Weequahic Park twice a day–in the morning on his way to work and in the evening on his way home.
On winter evening, when the sun had gone down early, he was walking through the park when someone stepped from behind a tree and shot him. The bullet severed his spone, turning this athletic young man into a quadriplegic. He was not robbed and his assailant was never found. The police assumed Michael David was the price of some young man’s entry into a gang.
I wrote about him for The Star-Ledger and got to know him well. He become a symbol of courage in the face of absolute horror and diversity–both for me and the students and employees at St. Benedict’s.
Knowing that story, read the note sent to me by a frightened mother of a Newark A short blog, a big problem–can anyone help this Cami victim? | Bob Braun's Ledger: