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Dorchester man acquitted of killing a man outside a club is killed outside a club
By adamg on Mon, 12/15/2008 - 8:40am
The Providence Journal reports Anthony Parrish, 24, of Dorchester, was gunned down outside Club Passion in Providence around 2:30 a.m., Sunday.
In 2004, Parrish was acquitted of charges he gunned down Darrel Vilifana Noriega outside the former Fundonzinho Lounge on Dudley Street in Roxbury. He was later charged with putting a gun to the head of a witness in the case.
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anthony parrish RIP
i heard he was just stating to turn his life around.working on a rap album, and had just applied for a job with the city.he was always making everyone laugh, he loved his kids.rip anthony.
Some day, somewhere, someone
Some day, somewhere, someone will get it who wasn't "just starting to turn his life around."
Turning life around = hazardous time
A Roxbury minister I knew once asked me if I knew of any entry level jobs. I did, and I told her.
A couple months later, this mama comes flying out of nowhere and gives me a big hug. Seems I didn't know the whole story - her son was fresh out of jail for a drug offense, his girlfriend was pregnant, and she was terrified that he was going to be falling in with his old friends while he - yes - was turning his life around. He was able to get a decent paying job as a night custodian at one of the big hospitals. Night shift was a bonus, both for pay and for staying out of trouble. Working nights meant he couldn't hang around with the crowd that got him where he had been for the last year. He got benefits that covered his woman, their child, and himself. Mama was very very happy for the tip on the jobs, because it set her son up for a new start.
Turning your life around is a tough and vulnerable time, especially if you are not able to change where you live, your family can't ship you off to relatives in a safer neighborhood, and you don't have a lot of marketable skills. It does not surprise me that so many of these victims are said to be working on "turning their lives around", as some thugs don't appreciate it when their former friends declare them toxic and back away. There are also lingering resentments and scores to be settled, even with those who claim not to be playing anymore. Not to mention that it is always easier to slip back into what everyone else is doing than to resist.
People need help to make it.
Swrrly, People need help to make it. What you did, refer the man to an opportunity to support himself and his family, was the kind of help that makes a difference. I don't know if I had grown up in a gang neighborhood, whether I'd have made it. Last night 60 minutes had a good story on the USC head football coach trying to provide the same positive influence and a way out to gangbangers in LA.
Help is Available
I worked with Anthony Parrish for 6 months in 2001 when he was incarcerated as a juvenile for a violent crime. While I liked him a lot, it wasn't my impression that he took any of the treatment we offered seriously or had any intention to change. When he was arrested for murder a year later, he and his attorney tried to get me to testify that he was innocent because I had worked with him (even though I was 300 miles away from the crime), as if my words would rescue him. I found out later that he was acquitted and shortly after that pulled a gun on someone who testified against him. There's a pattern here. It's easy to say that people need help but sometimes they just don't want the help even when it's offered.
I am just reading all of this
I am just reading all of this after all these years, to make a commit like that about a child or person you only worked with for 6 months do you think that is right. Do you really know any thing about that person? I am someone really close to Anthony Parrish,you don't know any thing about him just what read and what you assume for that 6 months......
so where's the incentive to not get in trouble in the 1st place?
Seriously. They go around being thuggish, they get arrested, go right back on the streets.
If they actually make it into jail...well, soon as they're out, people are tripping over themselves to hand them jobs and training that wouldn't be offered to people who aren't criminals.
Where's the incentive to not become a violent hoodlum in the first place?
Because before they went to
Because before they went to jail there were more legitimate opportunities available to them. Most (chains, stores, restaurants, whatever) don't want to hire someone with a criminal record but would hire someone who maybe came from a bad part of town. The problem is that the "thuggish" kids are often the least responsible, least interested, and least likely to be able to keep a job in the first place. Sometimes it takes something as huge as going to jail to make them grow up and realize that it's time to take responsibility for themselves, but by then they have the stigma of a criminal record that's keeping them from becoming legitimately employed. Without people giving them a chance they would have ZERO opportunity. It's a hard cycle to break out of once you're in it, so people who want help should get it so they don't end up back in jail or being "thuggish" on the streets.