TX - Lenora Frago, 23, fatally shot, San Antonio, 24 Dec 2009

[wfgodot]

Okay, it's a bit off-topic, but

GO SPURS!

 

[txsvicki]

We haven't been told if she may have had sex with some clients. The driver guy said absolutely not though. He wasn't threatening the guy who hired the escort time, the two were trying to get away from the gun. Ther's no pics of of girl, but $150 doesn't sound like much to charge for sex. Most hardened prostitutes would be afraid of a john with a gun. He seemed to have the thing pretty handy and even loaded.

 

[waitin'4thewrld2chg]

There are certainly people in this world who defend the use of deadly force when some old nutcase comes out and shoots teens for walking through their yards. But I don't think that's a Texas thing.

This is one of those cases, with this prostitute that I don't spent a lot of time worrying about - there are plenty of horrors in the world that tug at my heart.

This woman, posing as a prostitute, walks in and takes a man's $150 and then expects to be able to safely walk out and on to the next would-be customer to rob. What, really, does she expect to happen?

I think this may have been one of those cases where the jury frankly just doesn't really care. Like when someone gets shot for double crossing someone in a drug deal - kind of low on my things to get wrapped around the axle about.

bbm

Every unfortunate situation and ALL injustice tugs at my heart.

The fellow who suddenly found himself $150 poorer probably felt that his treatment at the hands of the woman was something less than fair, but was it unfair enough to justify shooting the woman, now off his property, in the neck?

I think the guy was more shortchanged than he was robbed, but, be that as it may... the woman who died, while maybe not having chosen the safest lifestyle nor the wisest one, was somebody's daughter. She could have been generic your daughter or my daughter or a juror's daughter. None of us have 100% control over how our kids turn out or what risky stages they pass through. You didn't say this, but I am saying it: this woman was not disposable.

What did she expect to have happen, you ask? I imagine she expected to keep breathing in and out. If that was her expectation, I would call it reasonable.

 

[Snoopster]

I shouldn't have read this thread.

That some people think that stuff (property) is more important than life, is something that I will never understand. $150 is worth a life? How little this person respects life. How totally self-absorbed and self-centered.

Yes, he likely had a reason to be upset if he was telling the truth. (Presuming he is telling the truth, as we never got to hear the other side of the story thanks to the shooter's actions.) But how can he be called human, to have so little respect for life?

The whole 'I must protect my property at all costs' attitude shows an unhealthy preoccupation with stuff and an inability for empathy.
All JMO.

(BTW, so many extremely wonderful, caring, bright Texans hang out here on WS!! Yay!! I'm so lucky to have 'met' you! I'm so sorry that this happened in your state.)