(Be warned! This is a SAD blog!)
My little Brother, Russel (and why I insist on calling a 41 year old man LITTLE escapes me...he IS 6'1" and weighs likely 190!) recently experienced the worst thing IMAGINABLE! His wife, Jaime...love of his life, mother of his 2 year old son, Jackson...was murdered by a neighbor lady. What causes the neighbor to kill her, you ask? Russel and Jaime and countless other neighbors had reported the lady to the Sheriff because thay had seen things that made them think the lady was mentally unstable. One day several months before, Jaime was coming back from picking her daughter up from school and the lady ran into the road in front of her car. Jaime slammed on the brakes, turning the car sideways in the road! Jaime was MAD (rightfully so!)...and when Jaime was mad...you were going to hear about it. She jumped out of the car and yelled at the lady for not only endangering herself (the lady) but Jaimes 2 children, who were in the car! When Jamie got back in the car the lady KICKED the side of the car as she drove off! Jaime called the Sheriff...which is what you are supposed to do!
On the day of her death....Jaime got up and got her daughter ready for school...loaded the kids into the car...backed out of her drive and started down the road.She turned around to say something to her daughter and as she turned her head back to the front....she was hit in the side of the face by a jet of water coming through her window. This neighbor had hung her waterhose to the fence with it on the powerspray setting...jetting water clear across the road. Wasting water isn't ever good...but we live in Texas and we are currently in a DROUGHT. The only real way we know what happened next is that another neighbor who was also taking her child to school pulled in behind Jamie as she got out of her car to go talk to her neighbor about the spraying water. Jaime opened the gate to approach the womens door. Knocked....the door opened 4" or so...and that women shot my beautiful sister in law!
Why on Earth would I write this awful story in a "helping" blog? Glad you asked! Jaime wasnt a stupid women! She was a highly intelligent, small business owner who brought JOY to all of us! LITERALLY like sunshine coming into a room! She was much younger then I am at 25. I have a child her age. Alot of people, these days, are BENT on confrontation. I know in my heart that Jaime didn't think for a SECOND that she was about to DIE giving this women the business for wasting water....heck...she didn't even GET to give her any "business"...she hadn't said a word! I just really want to remind EVERYONE to THINK before they act. That women has a mental problem that we know nothing about. I worked in MHMR for years and there are ALOT of people with mental problems, diagnosed and UNdiagnosed. Most of them never ASKED for a mental problem. (keeping in mind that some mental problems are caused by drug usage) It is often a chemical imbalance that is responsible. Had Jaime given half a thought to WHO she was dealing with...she would have just called the sheriff...and my brother would still have the light of his life...Jackson (2) and Joclyn(4) would have their Mom.
So....this Holiday Season...remember that while confronting someone who you feel is WRONG in some way might make you FEEL better, if you dont KNOW them...you have no way of knowing if they are mentally unbalanced or what they are capable of. Give your loved ones a gift...and pass up the opportunity to confront them on the issue.
