A mentally-ill man who stabbed his father to death while he lay in bed with his grandson, has been sentenced to be detained in prison at the court’s pleasure, with a review after five years.
On June 11, 2021, my newspaper column was captioned “Evil Stalks this Land”. I was then focusing on natural disasters and ones that were man made. At that time six months into the year, we had a total of 16 homicides. Now nine months into 2022 our homicide count appears to be 32. Before one was able to come to grips with those sour statistics, the nation was startled by …