Domestic Tranquility
St. Louis Post-Dispatch :
A St. Louis man shot in the back while running away from a street robbery can rest in peace, his family said today, after his killer was sentenced to life in prison.
The killer, Michael “Fang Fang” Hudson, was found guilty last month of first-degree murder and 21 other felonies. He was charged after a 25-day crime spree in St. Louis during the summer of 2004.
Prince Hammonds, 20, known as “Rambo” to his family, was killed on July 28, 2004, after Hudson stepped out of a stolen car and tried to rob Hammonds and his friends in the 3600 block of Michigan Avenue.
“He took a good person away from his family,” said Hammonds’ uncle, James Johnson.
Johnson wore a T-shirt to the sentencing hearing that read: “Justice has been done.”
A St. Louis jury convicted Hudson, 31, a professed drug dealer, after a series of witnesses identified him as the one who committed several robberies, a car-jacking and a shooting.
Yes, because when I was a little kid growing up, and learning about the ways of the world, I always dreamed of leaving it by being shot in the back at the age of 20. If Mr. Hammonds was somewhere out there awaiting the disposition of the criminal case against his suspected killer, and couldn’t rest in peace until such a time, then he shouldn’t rest so peacefully — after all, even people imprisioned for life have been known to break out of prison, commit other murders while on the lam, and if not that kill fellow inmates in the sling for lesser felonies, and murder prison guards.
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