The impact of an image or a message sometimes reverberates onward long past it's temporal origins. Burned onto our collective memories, powerful descriptions or photographs have the ability to encapsulate our deepest fears or ambitions.
Regardless of one's perspective the incident portrayed above of a father and son in the midst of a gun battle strikes a powerful instinctual cord that we all understand at a deep fundamental level. And so it is today as we learn the details of how a 7-year-old boy and his father were killed in the border city of Juárez on Friday.
Raul Xazziel Ramirez-Ramirez (Raulito, I'll call him), and his father were gunned down in Juárez. Young Raulito was a third-grade student at Glen Cove Elementary, an Ysleta Independent School District in El Paso, Texas. This was his first semester at Glen Cove Elementary. He is shown in the photograph above dressed as an angel.
The boy's father, Raul Ramirez Alvarado, 35, was found with multiple gunshot wounds on the drivers' side of his white car. Raulito witnessed his father's death and was attempting to run away when he was shot multiple times in the back. Eighteen casings from a 9 mm weapon were found at the scene.
This undoubtedly was done by the same cold-hearted butchers that have taken Ciuadad Juarez - "murder capitol of the world" - down the path of anarchy.
Although the city has had numerous killings, the murder of this little Texas angel, with all his promise before him, should strengthen the resolve of our two countries. It certainly has strengthened mine.
For the moment, let us all take a moment to pray for our little Raulito and all the other lives that have been destroyed by drugs.
2 comments:
the boy was visiting his father for a day. A DAY. nobody deserves to go through what his family and especially mother have to go through. thanks for the photos this is the only place i could find a story about this little boy besides the documentary i first saw about the drug wars in mexico. God bless.
I have served for many years in the military and I have a 10 month little boy. I can't stop crying and I feel so many emotions, I think to myself what if it was my boy?. Good will Prevail always and don't want to promote violence but I would sure fight that "war on drugs" if they would send me!!!!. To the mother, I send my deepest Condolences for your little boy and your husband. Psalm 23
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