04-20-2006, 12:10 AM
I thought I'd share this story with you all. I'm not making any points about crime figures, murder rates and etc, but these stories have been the catalyst of a lot of public outrage in the Buffalo area.
Basically a nun, Sister Karen Klimczak, 62, had spent many years trying to make Buffalo a safer place to live, she had lived and worked at Bissonette House - a halfway house on Grider St. named for the Rev. A Joseph Bissonette, a priest brutally murdered in the same building in 1987. She was killed by one of the parolees staying there on Good Friday. The parolee had only been staying there for only nine days and was crack addict. He needed another hit so he decided to break into the Sister's room and steal her mobile phone. She must have caught him and he 'accidentally' strangled and beat her to death. He then took her body to an abandoned house near by his own parents house and buried her in the garden under an old shed.
There was an item on the news regarding sister Klimczak going missing on the news, and this isnt that far from where I live. Ive been past the halfway house many times in the past. The idiot then sold her phone on, and the police became suspiscious and called the phone, someone answered the mobile phone and eventually the police tracked it down and upon questioning was lead to the parolee who then confessed to the killing and disposal of the body.
George Pitliangas, 41, who ran his own restaurant, and did a lot in the community to help the down and out in Buffalo was gunned down at close range by robbers on Friday afternoon, and Darinell Young, a father and father-to-be, was going to the store to buy snacks for his pregnant girlfriend and was an innocent bystander was killed in the cross-fire of a gang-related shooting on the Lower West Side early Monday.
I live just on the outskirts of Buffalo and Cheektowaga and it seems every other day there's some kind of shooting or violent crime going on. I think its not just the crime its the innocence of the victims which has just been such a shock to the community.
To be honest I dont think its going to get a lot better around here. I have no answers and I dont think the community or the law enforcement agencies dont either.
Re all three crimes
http//www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060419/1068313.asp
Story re sister Karen Klimczak-
http//www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060418/1048190.asp
http//www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060419/1064980.asp
http//www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060418/1027885.asp
Basically a nun, Sister Karen Klimczak, 62, had spent many years trying to make Buffalo a safer place to live, she had lived and worked at Bissonette House - a halfway house on Grider St. named for the Rev. A Joseph Bissonette, a priest brutally murdered in the same building in 1987. She was killed by one of the parolees staying there on Good Friday. The parolee had only been staying there for only nine days and was crack addict. He needed another hit so he decided to break into the Sister's room and steal her mobile phone. She must have caught him and he 'accidentally' strangled and beat her to death. He then took her body to an abandoned house near by his own parents house and buried her in the garden under an old shed.
There was an item on the news regarding sister Klimczak going missing on the news, and this isnt that far from where I live. Ive been past the halfway house many times in the past. The idiot then sold her phone on, and the police became suspiscious and called the phone, someone answered the mobile phone and eventually the police tracked it down and upon questioning was lead to the parolee who then confessed to the killing and disposal of the body.
George Pitliangas, 41, who ran his own restaurant, and did a lot in the community to help the down and out in Buffalo was gunned down at close range by robbers on Friday afternoon, and Darinell Young, a father and father-to-be, was going to the store to buy snacks for his pregnant girlfriend and was an innocent bystander was killed in the cross-fire of a gang-related shooting on the Lower West Side early Monday.
I live just on the outskirts of Buffalo and Cheektowaga and it seems every other day there's some kind of shooting or violent crime going on. I think its not just the crime its the innocence of the victims which has just been such a shock to the community.
To be honest I dont think its going to get a lot better around here. I have no answers and I dont think the community or the law enforcement agencies dont either.
Re all three crimes
http//www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060419/1068313.asp
Story re sister Karen Klimczak-
http//www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060418/1048190.asp
http//www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060419/1064980.asp
http//www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20060418/1027885.asp