BONHAM â May is officially Mental Health Awareness Month in Fannin County following Commissionersâ Court action Tuesday.
A proclamation read and approved for County Judge Randy Mooreâs signature draws attention to the importance of mental health to a personâs overall well-being, and it recognizes that the Covid-19 pandemic is one of many challenges that impacts mental health. While prevention is an effective way to reduce the burden of mental health conditions, there are practical tools all people can use to improve their mental health and increase resiliency, the proclamation states.
â(W)ith effective treatment, those individuals with mental health conditions can recover and lead full, productive lives,â it states, adding âeach business, school, government agency, health care provider, organization and citizen shares the burden of mental health problems and has a responsibility to promote mental health wellness and support prevention and treatmen
The surveillance video captured Wallace and the juvenile running away and returning to Curry s home, where Wallace changed his clothes and left the home again, prosecutors said.
“State Police detectives assigned to the Norfolk District Attorney’s office and Stoughton Police have poured a great deal of effort and dedication into this investigation,” District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey said in a written statement. “Working with Assistant District Attorney Jennifer Blair as she conducted the grand jury investigation, the Stoughton Police were excellent partners in this. Tonight’s arrests do not blunt the senseless loss of Christian Vines, but they are an important step forward.”
The juvenile defendant’s arraignment in Norfolk Superior Court was to be scheduled Tuesday.
Jaylen Wallace, who was 17 at the time of the shooting, was arrested and charged with murder as an adult in August. He has pleaded not guilty and is being held without bail.
“Tonight’s arrests do not blunt the senseless loss of Christian Vines, but they are an important step forward,” District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey said in a news release.
Vines, of Randolph, Massachusetts, was found shot in the parking lot of an apartment complex in Stoughton. He was brought to a hospital, where he died.
Teenager, 22-year-old man indicted in connection with killing of 17-year-old Christian Vines in car in Stoughton; 4 arrests total made in the case, DA says
Updated Feb 23, 2021;
Authorities announced Monday that a teenager and man have been indicted in connection with the killing of 17-year-old Christian Vines in his car in Stoughton last year, marking four total arrests made so far in the case.
Vines, a Randolph teen, was killed inside his parked car outside 31 Jones Terrace the afternoon of July 21. Police were sent to the scene around 3 p.m. after fielding 911 calls about gunshots in the area. There, they found the 17-year-old boy mortally wounded in the driver’s seat of a silver Honda sedan, according to Norfolk District Attorney Michael W. Morrissey’s office.