I LIVE IN THIS AREA IN A SENIOR APT, AND ALL OF US ARE SCARED TO DEATH TO GO OUT SIDE ALONE, LET ALONE IN THE EVENING. ITS A SHAME WHAT THE WORLD IS COMING TOO, DRUGS, NO MORELS AND NO DISAPLINE. WE COULD SURE USE A POLICE PATROL AT TIMES, NOT JUST FOR A CRIME!!!

I am saddend by this whole tragedy. I used to be a homeowner just a half mile from this area. It was such a nice community that was within walking distance to what was Crowleys on Ford Rd. Now the old neighborhood has gone down. Sadly, a similar crime occurred in a neighborhood of my nephews in Mt Clemens.
A neighborhood family man, named John Tocco, went to ask a neighbor to pen his dog up better so he wouldn’t run around the nighborhood and bite children. The owner of the dog, an illegal immigrant, hit poor Mr. Tocco over the head with a golf club.
What is this world coming to?

christopher is my ex boyfriend. and i honestly can not believe this. i’m almost in denial because that is not the person i know.

I only wish Michigan had the death penalty. How appropriate it would be for this case. I disagree with the previous post about two lives being lost. Cleary Mr. Long and I use the term “Mr.” Loosely is a going to live out his life regardless of his actions he will still be alive. No there were not two lives lost there were several lives affected. How pathetic we should be concerned with the existence of Mr. Long. The real tragedy here is the absence of a fine man, a brother and an Uncle. Gone are the chances of a First fishing trip with his nephew, gone are many joyful hours of family time and fun. Yes, how appropriate it is we have any concern over Mr. Long. While I hope justice is swift. Although true justice will not be possible here on Earth I hope Mr. Long Burns in Hell for all eternity only then will he even come close to knowing the pain he has caused.

There is no race card to be played. You cannot take a life over an alledged racial comment. I do not understand the girlfriend making a statement that the N word was buried. PEOPLE, A MAN LOST HIS LIFE FOR NO REASON.

There has been a comment made that this is a “lose- lose situation”. Your right, my son has lost his uncle, a good man who I have known for many years. Gerald was a kind man of few words. How am I to explain to my young son why his uncle is not going to be there anymore? The person who has lost the most was a little boy who loved and idealized his uncle.
I can care less if someone is called a name of any sort. Sticks and Stones, Grow Up.
Mr. Long made statments saying that Gerald asked for a “Hit” off Mr.Longs cigerette. Here is food for thought, if Gerald had any issue with people of color, DO YOU REALLY THINK HE WOULD WANT TO SHARE A CIGERETTE WITH MR.LONG? Let’s thing really hard about that!
I am not worried about Geralds legacy, because we (his family and friends) know that he was not a racist. What it comes down to is, you can not believe a word out of this kids mouth. The only truth this kid has given is that he stabbed him in the back of the neck/head. I call Mr. Long a kid because a real man would never stab someone in the back leterally or metaphorically. A real man would face them and deal with their issues face to face and without a weapon.
I also do not feel sorry for Mr. Longs family. Odviously they did not raise him with morrels or intergrity. He is also still alive. If he lived in another state, he would meet his maker much sooner, through leathal injection! Maybe then his family will know the true pain this kid has caused a great number of people and especially his nephew.

I was one of the room-mates with Christopher long. and there isnt a night that goes by that i dont remember the poor man that had to lose his life. In the short amount of time that i had known christopher he was never the type of person that i or anyone else would ever do something like that. He was always very kind. But that just goes to show what the world has truly come to. My heart goes out to the family of the poor man that lost his life.

There are two problems here. One, if blacks hate the word so much and feel so much passion over its use, stop using the word in addition to the senseless violence that plague the community. Everyone should b eopen to discussion and be ready to look in the mirror about some issues affecting the black community. Two, whites need to understand the power of the “N” word and how some people see the word as meaning so much more. If whites dismiss racism in any form, whether verbal or physical, race relations will never get better.

Not sure why you search for certain posts or respond so often behind my posts, but I said what I said for a reason, not for you to go behind and correct. Please stay on your one and only mission in life of “further dividing the Van Buren Township community” and stay out of issues that you truly only care about becasue we disagree on what you and your group are doing to the VBT community.

that was my roomate Chris (Bossy). those in that area will know who i am. i was actually sleeping when it all happend. what i know is that he was messing around with crackheads across the complex and smoked with them. he got the knife from their apartment and stabbed the guy then comes back in our crib and starts playing tony hawk.. dumbass. Westland police is f’n stupid they arrested me and two of my other roomates and left chris alone at the crib. WTF?! the man that was stabbed was not racist.. he didnt call chris a nigger and did not ask him for a hit or anything..that was just bossys alibi. the maintenance man was innocent and just doing his job. my condolences for his family.
anyways i hope that asshole gets raped in prison..
CRACK KILLS!