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Homicide by Alligator

Posted on 18 July 2007 by LJ

Harrel Franklin Braddy, an ex-con, was convicted yesterday for attempting Death Rowto murder Shandelle Maycock and leaving her 5 year old baby girl Quatisha in the Everglades to get eaten alive by alligators in 1998.

I know, you are horrified, in total shock aren’t you? I know I am.

In November of 1998 Braddy went into the home of Maycock and when she asked him to leave he became totally enraged and began choking her until she was unconscious.

The Associated Press reports, “He choked Maycock until she was unconscious and then forced her and Quatisha into his car, the woman testified. At one point, Maycock gained consciousness, grabbed the child and jumped out of the moving vehicle. Braddy stopped, choked the woman again and put her in the trunk, she testified. Maycock never saw her daughter again.”

He took baby Quatisha into a place called “Alligator Alley” and dropped her in the water there. The ME reported that the girl was still alive when the alligators started biting at her and she was found 2 days later missing an arm and with bite marks in her head.

Shandelle Maychock lived but woke up bleeding miles away from her home and she’ll never get to see her daughter again.

What really pisses me off is that this guy was already in prison for attempted murder but only served 13 years of the 20 years he was sentenced to. Yeah, he got released early on good behavior. “Oh Harrel, you haven’t killed someone in years! Go on now and have a ball!” What did they think would happen?

AP, “Braddy was convicted of seven counts including first-degree murder, attempted murder, kidnapping, burglary and escape. He faces the death penalty.”

He faces the death penalty? See, here’s whats wrong with that. I’m pretty sure I’m not the only one who not only wants to see this guy die today, but wishes it could be by their own hand.

I vote that whenever an incident like this happens everyone who is pissed off and wants to take action stands in a big old line and we each get to either punch him in the face or kick him in the nuts…or both. And then if that doesn’t kill them the surviving victims or their families get to decide how he dies. Perhaps…by alligator? Sure I’m morbid but can you believe this man is still alive?

To get the full story from MSNBC click here.

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