When are we as a state and nation going to take any murder, and all murders of our fellow citizens, seriously enough to do something about it?
We sadly woke up to news recently of the tragic murder of Zoe Welsh in a local neighborhood in Raleigh. Zoe had been a neighbor until a couple of years ago and was a Ravenscroft School science teacher who was loved and adored by many.
There are murders reported every day in local and national news, and each is horrible in its own context and for the personal grief they cause for the immediate family and close circle of friends and colleagues. But when the victim is someone you know and can remember talking to on the street or on your front porch, it carries with it a special degree of weight and sense of urgency that something must be done now…