Grieving Father of 19 yo Shot While Committing Burglary Doesn’t Know How To Play the Blame Game
by BFH • 12/05/2014 • 15 Comments
See this guy? This is Ryan Brooks. He was shot and killed by a homeowner after Ryan and his 3 pals attempted to break into a house in Montgomery, Alabama. You have to read what the father says in the wake of his son’s death.
The dad does the usual, telling everyone that will listen that his son was a good boy, the type of person who loved everyone and everyone loved him. He says he was a God-fearing man and that he even contemplated a life of serving God. That doesn’t comport with what Ryan was doing that night and the father concedes that point. The father also went on to say something that, given the recent high profile shootings, runs counter to the usual narrative. (In fact, Al Sharpton would read this and just shake his head and chuckle and say, “dumb white people, they don’t know how to play the game.”)
AL.COM-
Brooks’ grief-stricken family gathered at his home Thursday afternoon, devastated by news of Brooks’ death and the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting.
They are not, they emphasized, making excuses. “Just like the guy in Missouri and the guy in New York, my son would be alive if he wasn’t breaking the law,” said father Jamie Brooks.
“Some of the things they’re going to say are not going to be indicative of who Ryan was,” said grandfather Barry Brooks. “I can’t go into it right now, but there’s going to be more to the story.”
“He made mistakes, we all have,” said Barry Brooks. “Maybe in the last few weeks, he made some that put him in the situation he was in last night. Some mistakes cost us more than others. Those mistakes don’t change who we are.”
The family, Brooks’ mother, father, grandfather, stepmother, two little brothers and little sister, on Thursday chose to remember better times. And, they said, there were many.
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