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vol 3 issue 1
march 2018
CC Biker & Motorsports
Eric Leoni “Goodbyes hurt when the story isn’t finished and that has closed.” -unknown
dead. No words can describe the absolute heartbreak and wave of emotions that come over you when you receive this news. Comfort never comes. Seconds -unknown become minutes and minutes ric Eugene Leoni. He was a become hours. No one can ever son, a brother, a husband, prepare you for this. At first, we a father, and a grandpa. He were told this was an accident was also a victim of murder. His and in a sense, it was but as we life ended abruptly on April 24th got more and more details of the ,2017 as a careless man struck events, we have come to see him from behind while he was on what happened as murder. his motorcycle. This man then The definition of murder is to kill came to a stop got out of a flatbed someone unlawfully and with truck he had stolen from Lowes premeditation. Even though this went into a nearby orchard and event was not premeditated fell asleep. All the while Eric lay there are several circumstances not far away dead or dying. I believe qualify this as murder. My name is Ashley Leoni and I The man who hit my father did am Eric’s daughter. On April 24th, not have a valid driver’s license, 2017 my family had to start their therefore, he shouldn’t have day learning their son, brother, been driving a vehicle. This man husband, father and grandpa did not have a valid visa it was an was mindlessly killed and left for expired student visa; therefore, he should have not been in this “You were unsure which pain is worse—the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.”
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a man murdered a man we loved and is only receiving 12 years and 4 months in prison? He loses 12 years of his life while my family suffers the rest of their lives. Why should we not hold onto it when one day we have to explain to Eric’s granddaughter he was killed and the man responsible is free? My family has also been asked if we can ever forgive this man? You don’t forgive someone who you don’t feel is sorry. After sitting in a jail cell for ten months with nothing but time to think this man managed a bullshit three sentence apology that was most likely forced by his P.D. He does not deserve forgiveness. We don’t want sympathy, we don’t want empty promises and fake apologies. We want our My family has been told not to son, brother, husband, father hold onto our hate and anger we and grandpa back. Which is have for this man. Why? Why something we will never be able should we not hold onto it when to have. country. This man purchased and consumed illegal drugs behind the wheel of a stolen vehicle. The vehicle (a Lowes flatbed truck) that hit my father was the second vehicle this man had stolen. While in the stolen vehicle the man drove recklessly with no lights on at high speeds and hit another vehicle before killing my father. This man gave a two-hour confession in English but claimed he couldn’t speak English when in court. This man admitted to seeing my father at the stop light but he kept driving. This man admitted to after hitting my father going into an orchard nearby and sleeping. Premeditated or not I feel this justifies murder and he should have been charged with such.