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Police responded to a Maplewood park just before 4:40 a.m. on February 23, 2013, after a call from Mitchell's mother. She told them about a girl found beaten and unresponsive on a nearby trail. After they arrived, Mitchell himself led investigators to a spot in Hillside Park in Maplewood where Hurd was lying approximately 15 feet from the path.
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Mitchell told police that he later went looking for her, returning a short time later in hysterics with blood on his hands, yelling for his mother to call 911.
But investigators soon learned that the defendant was also seen at a party the night before playing with a knife. A witness told police that Hurd had planned on ending the relationship between herself and the defendant and traveling to Texas alone. The witness said that Mitchell was "clingy" in his relationship with Hurd, and had threatened to commit suicide when she previously attempted to break up with him.
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http://www.kare11.com/news/article/1025322/391/Teen-pleads-guilty-in-girlfriends-murder
chillfactor
(7,572 posts)instead of an innocent victim.....
11 Bravo
(23,925 posts)I would submit that each of them is tragic.
boston bean
(36,217 posts)Of minimizing violence against women?
I submit all are tragic as well. But it is also important to recognize the types of crimes and reasons for them. And to discuss it. And to determine ways to stop it. When people discuss it I don't think that means people don't care about other victims of murder and types of murder.
galileoreloaded
(2,571 posts)and there is a very small but vocal minority here at DU that needs to promote an agenda of their self appointed protected class in spite of the statistics that show huge disparities of who the bulk of violent crime victims actually are.
its a new kind of victimization....of victims, merely by not having the sufficient chromosomal make up to warrant concern. very transparent.
redqueen
(115,101 posts)male partners or ex partners is somehow significant.
I agree that every murder is tragic.
I hope you don't mind if I post about some of them.
Pab Sungenis
(9,612 posts)that every murder is a tragedy.
11 Bravo
(23,925 posts)are women who are killed by male partners or ex-partners.
Forgive me for thinking that the other 92.5%, mostly young men, many of them African-American, are also significant.
Because that's all I fucking said.
opiate69
(10,129 posts)you seem to have irked the keepers of the truth...
At Sat May 11, 2013, 09:27 PM an alert was sent on the following post:
I don't mind at all. I find it horrendous that 7.5% of the daily murders in this country ...
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Wow.
Rude, disruptive and way over the top. No idea what's wrong with posting this story or where this hostility is coming from.
You served on a randomly-selected Jury of DU members which reviewed this post. The review was completed at Sat May 11, 2013, 09:34 PM, and the Jury voted 1-5 to LEAVE IT.
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niyad
(113,027 posts)that would be productive, if you feel they are not being given sufficient attention.
the OP is also free to post about whatever murders, or other subjects, interest the OP.
nomorenomore08
(13,324 posts)I can only imagine the psychological processes, the rationalizations, that lead to something like this.
niyad
(113,027 posts)right, is what it seems to come down to.