Unbelievable

Last night i found something out pretty devastating. You see, I have a friend who lived in my building who is a year younger than me or so. During his teen years he got involved with the wrong crowd. From what I heard, he began selling drugs and hanging out with gangs and such... we didn't hang out much during our teen years, but whenever I did see him I said what's up and asked him how he was doing. I found out last night that he got arrested... on murder charges. The story, in a nutshell, is that my friend and his crew or whatever had beef with some other crew. So after a fight or something like that my friend and his crew went to their enemies' neighborhood. When they went into the neighborhood my friend had a gun on him, and fired a shot into the air. The bullet he fired hit a 92 year old woman, and killed her. I'm still in shock. I can't even comprehend that this really happened. He got caught and arrested, and will probably be convicted and sentenced to life in jail, or worse. I fucking grew up with this kid. I can't believe this.... this tragedy should and could have been avoided. This kid didn't have to go down the road he went, and now a matriarch of a neighborhood is gone because of his actions. It's a damn shame.... I just hope that he doesn't get the death penalty. I know he did something absolutely terrible... but i know he was a good kid. I've known him since we were little kids... its despicable what he did, I admit, and he deserves whatever sentencing he gets, but at the same time, why did it have to be him? Why the fuck of all people did he have to do something this bad? I'll be praying for him... and for the repose of the soul of the murdered woman... I'll see you guys later. Peace.