My cousin Johnny Mo Trover was murdered by his wife with a handgun. She shot him while he slept. Then she tried to convince police that an intruder was the gunman. When her story started to unravel and it seemed like she would be going to jail, she killed herself with a shotgun. They left behind three children who had to be raised by Johnny’s brother. The interesting thing was that my husband’s cousin Bobby was also shot by his wife while he slept – five times. Amazingly, he survived after a year in the hospital, but for that reason, I won’t have a gun in the house. Mental illness can occur in any family and this is the result – two deaths, three orphaned children, and one seriously injured man.
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Personal Stories & Tributes
Tribute to Jennifer Crecente
Jennifer met her boyfriend when she was 16. She dated him for over two years. During those years they went through a lot. He was never physically abusive before but he was very verbally and emotionally abusive. She was finally able to break free from him in 2005. But on February 15, 2006, Jennifer (then [...]
Tribute to VanDaryl LeBron Rivers
Dream deferred. You had so many plans, gone but not forgotten. You did not realize how many people loved you. We will never forget you and I hope that we can get peace from this terrible tragedy. Your Grandmother who nurtured you from age 3. I still cry for you. May God help me and [...]
Tribute to Lori Gonzalez
On May 28, 2000, Lori Gonzalez, granddaughter of then, Los Angeles police chief, Bernard Parks, was shot and killed while driving with a friend in her car in L.A. She was an innocent victim caught up in what is believed to have been a gang-related attack, just a week shy of her 21st birthday. A [...]
Tribute to Kenzo Dix
My son was shot and killed when visiting his friend whose father kept a gun loaded and unlocked for “protection.” The boy thought he’d unloaded the gun when he removed the loaded ammunition clip but a bullet was still hidden in the chamber. Of course that was a childish mistake but I learned that it [...]
Tribute to Sheila Salley
On June 10, 2011 my mother, Sheila DuCros Salley, traveled from her home in Dover, New Hampshire, across the state border into Maine. She arrived at the Kittery Trading Post and purchased a gun for $394.94. She drove home to New Hampshire, test fired the weapon in a couple of her closets, then fired it [...]
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