This sucks

[cactusjack]

I read the other day in the newspaper about a 42 year old woman being shot multiple times by 2 teenagers in Mesa. At first I though "oh another shooting in Mesa. Glad I moved from there".

I found out this afternoon that the victim is a woman I work with. She had stepped out of her vehicle to pick up her mail in her apartment complex on Tuesday evening and these two punks (16 & 17 yo) walked up and tried to carjack her. She thought it was some sort of prank and took the gun from them. They started beating on her and after she was down, they started kicking her, breaking one of the orbital bones in her face. Then these pieces of human excrement shot her multiple times. She pressed the panic button on her key chain and her truck alarm started blaring which attracted witnesses. The two scumbags ran off, but were apprehended by Mesa PD. She was airlifted to a nearby trauma center with life-threatening injuries.

I found out that she has been moved out of the ICU today and is able to talk. Her attackers were gang members and she is going to be living in fear of retaliation for a long time.

This has nothing to do with motorcycles but I just wanted to post it and vent a little about the sorry state of society today. I hope these dirtballs get proper punishment for what they did to my friend. I know I'd be willing to "punish" them.