Reply #73: LINK TO HIS BLOG, on another website:

[Maddy McCall]

http://www.michaelcrook.com/mikesweblog/

Michael Crook died today
Submitted by lauriegirl on Mon, 2005-05-16 20:09.
I am a member of Michael Crook's family...we do not have the passwords needed to update this website, but he did make me an account on this blog.

As it mentions on the Troops site, today at 6:19pm EST, Michael Crook died at an area hospital as a result of head injuries sustained from an assault by people upset with his website.

Michael died with his wife, and baby present. He was 27. The assaulters are in custody.

We ask for privacy at this time.

Goodbye, Mike
Submitted by lauriegirl on Mon, 2005-05-16 22:32.
It's been about four hours since Mike died. I am coming into Syracuse from New Jersey later tomorrow morning to help with the funeral preparations.

Mike fully expected to die at someone's hands, and was prepared. His family is very well taken care of financially, and he saved every death threat he got, which is now in the hands of law enforcement. He saved it in a folder which was readily accessible to his wife at a second's notice. Justice will be served, as the men who allegedly assaulted him are in jail at this moment.

I would like to thank those who have sent kind words. I can understand the hatred pointed towards Mike, but I would like to point this out: he was feeling very bad about this site, and wanted to take it down. But, he felt that if he did he would be seen by his critics as a punk who couldn't stand up for his views.