Post by Aleksksks on Jan 16, 2007 15:41:49 GMT -5
I'll direct this to you all, because it is my home town, and because (although things might not be the same as they used to), I personally saw and helped with the growth of this hardcore scene... this has to be said.
This past weekend at a hardcore show in New Jersey, a person was killed at a club and an investigation is still being made to find those responsible. So far, from witness accounts, one story is surfacing. The person was was hit in the head multiple times with a bar stool. Apparently this was all due to some petty bullshit argument over a symbol on a person's T-shirt.
How fucking sad that anything like that should ever lead to a person's death!
"Talk shit, get hit"... "Reality check"... what other cliche braindead excuse do people need to justify violence over simple matters?
This is a rant of mine... and I hope I'm not the only one that finds news like this infuriating.
Read the article below, and a personal account from a friend of the person that suffered the death.
Man slain; family looks for answers
Pinelands graduate, 25, killed in Asbury dispute
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 01/16/07
BY MICHELLE SAHN
STAFF WRITER
ASBURY PARK — Carol and Charles Zemartis of Tuckerton planned to awaken early Monday to drive to Philadelphia, where Charles' 92-year-old mother would be laid to rest.
But the Ocean County couple missed the funeral as they tried to learn more about the Sunday evening homicide in Asbury Park that claimed the life of one of their grandchildren, an Iraq veteran and graduate of Pinelands Regional High School in Little Egg Harbor.
On Monday, police were trying to determine exactly what happened to James C. Morrison, 25, of the New Gretna section of Bass River in Burlington County, who was pronounced dead Sunday evening at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. The case is proceeding as a homicide investigation, authorities said.
"It doesn't make sense," said Morrison's grandmother, Carol Zemartis. "I don't think there was anyone who did not like James. It's such a thing. All night long, you're just picturing . . . and when you can't get any information, that's the worst thing. You think someone's going to get away with this."
Morrison's death was the first homicide in Monmouth County this year. In 2006, there were 16 homicides in the county, including eight in Asbury Park.
Along with friends, Morrison went to Deep, a club on the boardwalk, near the intersection of Second and Ocean avenues in Asbury Park on Sunday, authorities said.
While the events of that evening are still being investigated, there was an argument and a fight, "which at some juncture, proceeded outside," said First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter Warshaw.
"The exact role that Mr. Morrison played in any of this remains under investigation," said Warshaw. "Police are still working to piece together precisely what happened."
But at 5:50 p.m., Asbury Park police received a call indicating that Morrison had sustained injuries, he said.
They responded and found the 25-year-old on the ground in front of the club, said Warshaw. Morrison was taken to the hospital in Neptune, where he was pronounced dead around 6:30 p.m.
Warshaw said based on the findings so far, Morrison's death does not appear to be gang-related.
Caroline O'Toole, the general manager of Deep, said the incident happened on the sidewalk outside the club, but she did not know any details about what took place.
Morrison's mother, Lorrie Morrison, 44, of Little Egg Harbor, said her son and his friends arrived at the club around 5 p.m. because they wanted to hear one of the bands that was set to play.
She said she was being given little information by authorities about what happened, but had talked to her son's friends.
"They were sitting at the bar and had a couple of drinks," she said. "There was something where guys were arguing and, out of the blue, one guy threw a bar stool at my son and hit him in the head."
She said her son was struck by a stool a second time, this time in the side of his body, she said.
Lorrie Morrison said her son and his friends were asked to leave the club, and her son was dazed, so his friends helped him out.
"Out of the blue someone came from behind . . . and hit him in the head," she said.
His friends heard a loud crack, and her son fell to the ground, she said.
Lorrie Morrison said her son grew up in both Bass River and Little Egg Harbor and graduated from Pinelands Regional.
She said her son, her oldest child, had many friends and loved to go to concerts. He played guitar.
He spent several years in the Navy and was stationed on the USS Bataan during the war in Iraq, she said.
She described him as thoughtful and said he always ended conversations by saying "I love you, mom." He was also close to his younger sister and his grandparents, she said.
Carol Zemartis said her grandson was a courteous young man.
"You couldn't ask for a nicer grandson," she said. "In the beginning, you're so upset it's just grief. But after you start to get angry, because whoever did it, it was intent to kill."
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This was apparently posted the a friend of the person:
A close fucking friend to me and others died last night as a result of SCUMBAG fucking kids once again banding together to pick on 4 people who just went to enjoy a show.It All started because of a fucking symbol on a sweatshirt which was not worth killing another human being over.Im wondering when its gonna be enough for these fuckings kids to wake up and see what they've become.Your quest on becoming the toughest person in the "Scene" and impressing tons of your fat friends is now reached a new fucking low.G
Jim was a goofy fun loving guy with a big heart who died only standing up for his friend.So i hope whoever did this,gets whats coming to them and they suffer the way jim and the rest of us will and have.
And "CLUB DEEP" needs to get shut the fuck down.Seeing as if they had the right security there,This would never had bin continued from inside the club into the street or escalated to what it did.If they are going to continue to run shows they should be obligated to be licensed and held accountable to provide proper security.To prevent this happening to anyone else again.
Also,if you have information at all regarding who did this to jim.If you here people bragging or running there mouths and know who did it,Please do not hesitate to contact the police.Or me or anyone else who was close to jim so we can bring these kids to justice.This shit needs to stop guys.We can all go to these shows and sit there and take it from these kids cause they are bigger and outnumber everyone.But now it finally hit home with most of us.They took a simple altercation too far which resulted in jims death.
So Reply to this and copy and paste the code you can get the pic now as well.And Repost this if you were a friend of jims or as fed up as i am with violence at shows.
R.I.P. Jim Morrison
This past weekend at a hardcore show in New Jersey, a person was killed at a club and an investigation is still being made to find those responsible. So far, from witness accounts, one story is surfacing. The person was was hit in the head multiple times with a bar stool. Apparently this was all due to some petty bullshit argument over a symbol on a person's T-shirt.
How fucking sad that anything like that should ever lead to a person's death!
"Talk shit, get hit"... "Reality check"... what other cliche braindead excuse do people need to justify violence over simple matters?
This is a rant of mine... and I hope I'm not the only one that finds news like this infuriating.
Read the article below, and a personal account from a friend of the person that suffered the death.
Man slain; family looks for answers
Pinelands graduate, 25, killed in Asbury dispute
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 01/16/07
BY MICHELLE SAHN
STAFF WRITER
ASBURY PARK — Carol and Charles Zemartis of Tuckerton planned to awaken early Monday to drive to Philadelphia, where Charles' 92-year-old mother would be laid to rest.
But the Ocean County couple missed the funeral as they tried to learn more about the Sunday evening homicide in Asbury Park that claimed the life of one of their grandchildren, an Iraq veteran and graduate of Pinelands Regional High School in Little Egg Harbor.
On Monday, police were trying to determine exactly what happened to James C. Morrison, 25, of the New Gretna section of Bass River in Burlington County, who was pronounced dead Sunday evening at Jersey Shore University Medical Center, Neptune. The case is proceeding as a homicide investigation, authorities said.
"It doesn't make sense," said Morrison's grandmother, Carol Zemartis. "I don't think there was anyone who did not like James. It's such a thing. All night long, you're just picturing . . . and when you can't get any information, that's the worst thing. You think someone's going to get away with this."
Morrison's death was the first homicide in Monmouth County this year. In 2006, there were 16 homicides in the county, including eight in Asbury Park.
Along with friends, Morrison went to Deep, a club on the boardwalk, near the intersection of Second and Ocean avenues in Asbury Park on Sunday, authorities said.
While the events of that evening are still being investigated, there was an argument and a fight, "which at some juncture, proceeded outside," said First Assistant Monmouth County Prosecutor Peter Warshaw.
"The exact role that Mr. Morrison played in any of this remains under investigation," said Warshaw. "Police are still working to piece together precisely what happened."
But at 5:50 p.m., Asbury Park police received a call indicating that Morrison had sustained injuries, he said.
They responded and found the 25-year-old on the ground in front of the club, said Warshaw. Morrison was taken to the hospital in Neptune, where he was pronounced dead around 6:30 p.m.
Warshaw said based on the findings so far, Morrison's death does not appear to be gang-related.
Caroline O'Toole, the general manager of Deep, said the incident happened on the sidewalk outside the club, but she did not know any details about what took place.
Morrison's mother, Lorrie Morrison, 44, of Little Egg Harbor, said her son and his friends arrived at the club around 5 p.m. because they wanted to hear one of the bands that was set to play.
She said she was being given little information by authorities about what happened, but had talked to her son's friends.
"They were sitting at the bar and had a couple of drinks," she said. "There was something where guys were arguing and, out of the blue, one guy threw a bar stool at my son and hit him in the head."
She said her son was struck by a stool a second time, this time in the side of his body, she said.
Lorrie Morrison said her son and his friends were asked to leave the club, and her son was dazed, so his friends helped him out.
"Out of the blue someone came from behind . . . and hit him in the head," she said.
His friends heard a loud crack, and her son fell to the ground, she said.
Lorrie Morrison said her son grew up in both Bass River and Little Egg Harbor and graduated from Pinelands Regional.
She said her son, her oldest child, had many friends and loved to go to concerts. He played guitar.
He spent several years in the Navy and was stationed on the USS Bataan during the war in Iraq, she said.
She described him as thoughtful and said he always ended conversations by saying "I love you, mom." He was also close to his younger sister and his grandparents, she said.
Carol Zemartis said her grandson was a courteous young man.
"You couldn't ask for a nicer grandson," she said. "In the beginning, you're so upset it's just grief. But after you start to get angry, because whoever did it, it was intent to kill."
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This was apparently posted the a friend of the person:
A close fucking friend to me and others died last night as a result of SCUMBAG fucking kids once again banding together to pick on 4 people who just went to enjoy a show.It All started because of a fucking symbol on a sweatshirt which was not worth killing another human being over.Im wondering when its gonna be enough for these fuckings kids to wake up and see what they've become.Your quest on becoming the toughest person in the "Scene" and impressing tons of your fat friends is now reached a new fucking low.G
Jim was a goofy fun loving guy with a big heart who died only standing up for his friend.So i hope whoever did this,gets whats coming to them and they suffer the way jim and the rest of us will and have.
And "CLUB DEEP" needs to get shut the fuck down.Seeing as if they had the right security there,This would never had bin continued from inside the club into the street or escalated to what it did.If they are going to continue to run shows they should be obligated to be licensed and held accountable to provide proper security.To prevent this happening to anyone else again.
Also,if you have information at all regarding who did this to jim.If you here people bragging or running there mouths and know who did it,Please do not hesitate to contact the police.Or me or anyone else who was close to jim so we can bring these kids to justice.This shit needs to stop guys.We can all go to these shows and sit there and take it from these kids cause they are bigger and outnumber everyone.But now it finally hit home with most of us.They took a simple altercation too far which resulted in jims death.
So Reply to this and copy and paste the code you can get the pic now as well.And Repost this if you were a friend of jims or as fed up as i am with violence at shows.
R.I.P. Jim Morrison
