Statts/Williams shooting update

  As most of you know by now, Jason Statts and Dave Williams are two local musicians who were seriously wounded by gunfire this past weekend in Ardsley Park. It was not a robbery attempt, as nothing was taken. It was just an act of pure evil.

Two males approached them, asked if they “needed” drugs,” and when told no, accepted a few beers from Statts and Williams. They took the beers, walked off, then returned a few minutes later. One fired a single bullet, which went through Statts’s neck, shattered one of his vertebrae, and lodged in Williams’s neck, destroying his trachea.

Like I said, no robbery was intended, nothing was stolen. They were shot for the pleasure of seeing them shot.

If you don’t think you’re living in a world of good vs. evil, you haven’t been paying attention.

Anyway, as of this writing, Statts has been moved to a rehab facility in Atlanta, and Williams is in a step-down ICU unit at Memorial.

A fund has been started to help pay for medical expenses (Dave was uninsured at the time). Find it here.

As I’ve written before, it’s pathetic and inexcusable that upright citizens must resort to such panhandling to scrape up money for medical bills in this, supposedly the greatest country on earth. I know we have great medical care in this country, and that great medical care costs more, but if we’re spending two billion dollars a week in Iraq — for nothing — surely we could have begun a decent medical subsidy by now.

Every other big business in America is subsidized by taxpayers — oil, farms, defense contractors, the NFL. I don’t know why medical care for a couple of decent guys who were in the wrong place at the wrong time should be exempt.

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