SMH: 19-Year-Old Father Killed By Truck Driver In Possible Hate Crime
This guy was way too young to die like this.
However, this is the world we live in.
A young father of twin toddlers and his 19-year-old friend were run down by a man in a pickup truck during a birthday celebration in what police fear may have been a racially motivated attack.
Jimmy Kramer was celebrating his 20th birthday at a campground in Grays Harbor County when a man backed over him and his friend, Harvey Anderson, early Saturday morning, the Seattle Times reported.Kramer died later that day at Tacoma General Hospital, and Anderson was released from the hospital Sunday.
Both victims belong to the Quinault Indian Nation, the members of which believe the fatal incident may have been sparked by racism. Witnesses told police the driver “was screaming racial slurs and war whoops when he ran over the two tribal members,” a press release from the tribe reads.
Kramer is being hailed as a hero by the members of his tribe, who said he pushed his friend out of the way when the driver approached them. -(NY Daily News)
He didn't have to die for literally no reason.