an epidemic of violence is sweeping american children out of homes and classrooms and onto our meanest streets. cops say they ve never seen anything like it. our quality of life is being threatened when our children can t play in the street. i mean, there were children that were just random victims because one gang member shot at another. our babies, our babies. just leave them babies alone. i tell you, the public was frightened. amplifying nationwide fears, the media seized upon a label for a new class of ultraviolent offenders. criminologists call them super-predators. super-predator. the super-predator was about juvenile kids who had access to gun and didn t seem to have developed a conscience over time. police departments in our cities warn of a new generation of, quote, super-predators who have no compunction about taking human life. the narrative became about violence, gang violence, juvenile violence and having nathan dunlap kill four people at a chuck e.
the chuck e. cheese s massacre had taken place, javad and vivian were stopped at a red light when a car pulled alongside and someone opened fire. gunmen attacked this car with bullets, killing javad marshall-fields and vivian wolfe. finding out that i had lost my son, it was the most devastating event that i have ever experienced in my life. i was very, very angry. i was very upset. and so i went straight to the police department and started asking questions. javad had witnessed a friend s murder at a barbecue the summer before, and despite receiving death threats, javad had decided to testify in court against the accused killer. he felt like it was the right thing to do because he saw his best friend get shot down in cold blood. javad was murdered five days before the trial was set to begin. months later, sir mario owens and robert ray, who d both been
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javad had a brilliant smile. vivian just loved life. they were both recent graduates from colorado state university. she had just graduated with a b.a. in nutrition, and my son had just graduated with a bachelor s degree in speech communication and rhetoric. just three miles from where the chuck e. cheese s massacre had taken place, javad and vivian were stopped at a red light when a car pulled alongside and someone opened fire. gunmen attacked this car with bullets, killing javad marshall-fields and vivian wolfe. finding out that i had lost my son, it was the most devastating event that i have ever experienced in my life. i was very, very angry. i was very upset. and so i went straight to the police department and started asking questions. javad had witnessed a friend s murder at a barbecue the summer before, and despite
juvenile kids who had access to guns and didn t seem to have developed a conscience over time. police departments in our cities warn of a new generation of, quote, super-predators who have no compunction about taking human life. the narrative became about violence, gang violence, juvenile violence and having nathan dunlap kill four people at a chuck e. cheese just fed right into all of that. for many, nathan was the definition of a super-predator and deserved nothing less than death. he had escalating violence throughout his teenage years. he started robbing places with a golf club, and that escalated to guns eventually. we learned that nathan dunlap had been involved in some very serious crimes. prosecutors first tried nathan for one of the robberies and convicted him. with a violent crime now on nathan s record, the d.a. s office announced they would aggressively pursue the death penalty.