Reply #62: for those who don't recall

[iverglas]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=118&topic_id=129988&mesg_id=129988

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003297197_shooting10m.html

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/opinion/2003327014_satrdr28.html?syndication=rss

Saturday, October 28, 2006

By Joseph G. Culotti
Special to The Times

I am Danny Culotti's Uncle Joe. Danny made the front page of The Seattle Times on Oct. 10, 2006 ("Man killed at Westlake had set fire at mom's home in '01"). He started a fistfight with someone who had a concealed gun on his person on a Saturday morning in downtown Seattle.

... Put aside the fact that Danny was a beautiful, intelligent child who became schizophrenic at age 18 through no fault of his own; then ask how you would respond to someone attacking you with his fists.

Most normal people would respond by instinctively running or using their hands to defend themselves.

However, the shooter was not what we would think of as normal — he was carrying a gun and his immediate instinct was to shoot his attacker.

Many "normal" people are capable of killing another person in a brief moment of extreme anger, but this is uncommon because most of us do not carry lethal weapons and our bodies are not killing machines — a .357-caliber Magnum is.

... Danny won't be here to rejoice in a cure for schizophrenia, which we all hope will one day be found. May Danny rest in peace.

Joseph G. Culotti is a resident of Toronto, Canada, and professor of molecular and medical genetics at the University of Toronto.

Just in case you were idly curious about the actual facts of the case.


http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003484510_violence19m.html

Information in this article, originally published December 19, 2006, was corrected January 7, 2006. Due to incorrect information provided by the Seattle Police Department, a map that accompanied a story that ran in Tuesday's Local section about homicides in Seattle erroneously stated that the shooting death of Daniel Culotti had been ruled a justifiable homicide. The King County Prosecuting Attorney's Office has yet to make a final ruling.

I've been unable to find any more recent news, so I assume no charge was laid.

As we all know, that doesn't mean no crime was committed, let alone that nothing wrong was done.