Joan C. Mullins www.joancmullins.com
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Joan C. Mullins
THE AUTHOR Joan C. Mullins
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Joan C. Mullins Joan C. Mullins was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. Moving to South Carolina many years later, she began to paint and to write some short children’s stories for the entertainment of her own, and with thoughts of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren that they might some day enjoy them as well. For a time, her stories were tucked away in a closet. “Reading them again gave me a chuckle,” she says. Since then, her work has been published, and even produced on the stage in the Lowcountry. Unfortunately, little did Joan C. Mullins know that some day she would be writing a story about the murder of her son, Thomas L. Mullins, Jr.
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Joan C. Mullins
THEThe Ending BOOK
The True Story of the Life and Murder of Tommy
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The Ending The True Story of the Life and Murder of Tommy On the night of November 19th, 2010, an unarmed and disabled man named Tommy Mullins was shot and killed by his neighbor from the point-blank distance of thirteen feet. The justice system failed to prosecute the killer, despite the absence of a threat to the killer’s safety. A good man died because a neighbor chose to coldbloodedly shoot a man who had simply come over from next door to ask for his garage-door opener back. In The Ending, Joan Mullins, the mother of Tommy Mullins, challenges the justice system’s decision not to bring the case to trial despite the evidence that her defenseless son was deliberately murdered, and asks society to consider the insanity of allowing citizens to “shoot first and ask questions later.” The author also shares great memories and photographs from her son’s life, revealing the tragic real-life sadness that accompanies the reckless and cruel taking of another person’s life. Endings come to us all, and are always sad. Endings which are not natural or accidental, however, are nightmares.
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Joan C. Mullins www.joancmullins.com
The Ending
The True Story of the Life and Murder of Tommy
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