you wouldn't expect a normal story from me now would ya?

This is out of May 31st's issue of Louisville's Local paper, The Courier Journal...... read it then below I'll tell you why I posted it.

The victim of a fatal beating early Sunday in Louisville was identified Monday as Bryan Stevenson, 26, of Maumee, Ohio.

Deputy Jefferson County Coroner R.D. Jones said Stevenson was in Louisville for a softball tournament.

The Cincinnati Enquirer reported on its Web site that Stevenson played left field for the Northern Kentucky team Good Guys and was in Louisville participating in the Lou Turner Tournament.

The newspaper said Stevenson was named Northern Kentucky Player of the Year last year in the USSA "C" State championship.

In high school he played basketball and baseball, then went on to Eastern Kentucky University on a baseball scholarship, the Enquirer reported. He was named first team all-Ohio Valley Conference in 2005, the newspaper said.

The assault occurred at about 4:15 a.m. Sunday outside Barbara Lee's Kitchen, 2410 Brownsboro Road.

Police said a fight started inside the restaurant and ended up outside.

Four Louisville men -- Donald W. Hays, 30, David A. Pryor, 28, Justin M. Werner, 21, and William L. Schindler, 23 -- have been charged with murder in Stevenson's death and with assault in connection with injuries suffered by a second man.

The second man, whom police did not identify, was not believed to have life-threatening injuries, according to Louisville Metro Police spokesman Dwight Mitchell.

Stevenson died about 2 p.m. Sunday at University Hospital, police said.


k, those 4 Louisville men that r listed... I know em all... how fucked up is that? Grew up with 2 of them... met one about a month ago and didn't really know the other I don't think but I'm extremly close to his cousin. And when you live in this neighborhood everyone knows everyone anyway... we've all lived here forever and someones mom babysat someone else or their sister or we lived next door type shit.... just childhood friends. It's weird... makes me really sad to thinkt hey've just given their lives up like that... and I mentioned to one of my friends about it that it kinda upset me and his remark to me was "why? their worthless if they could do that anyway" ok... maybe I can see your point in saying that... about someone you don't know.. but when it's actually someone you know it's different.

I'm not trying to condone anything at all that they did... it was incredibly stupid, and incredibly unfair for the victim.. a 4 on one or two fight is nowhere near fair... and to fight til death is just...... ugh but when I love a friend, even if it was years ago that I seen them, then I love them... what they do doesn't affect that, unless it's done to me. I'll admit to anyone that asks me that I think it was really stupid but I'll in the same sentence say that I'll miss seeing their faces around also... If you can just stop caring about someone just because they made a bad decision in life than your an awful hollow person anyway. And regardless of what they did, it's sad to think theyre gonna be gone away now for 20 some odd years....

I think people being stupid like most people are take it to think I mean that I'm saying they don't deserve it or something like that (although one of them really doesn't but I can't talk about that) but thats not what I mean... I just mean I'm sad that people I know are going to fucking prison for murder. i'm gonna miss seeing them around.. and all the other people I love around me still are all so heartbroken that it's really hard watching them be that sad also.....

This is on top of the fact that another of our friends just died about a month ago...... (I tried to find his obiturary online but he's got a weird last name and I apparently couldn't figure out how to spell it right so I couldn't find it) but his death really shook our little neighborhood also.... so for something like this to happen too, it's pretty sad around here right now. I dont like seeing all my friends so down. =(


I guess I know a person that would fit into almost any catergory you could come up with now.......


And weirdly enough... when we were doing all the construction on the basement today, my uncle and my cousins husband wanted Barbara Lee's for lunch... same resturant they killed the guy at.. so I got to go pick their lunch up.. was strange.