Late Saturday, August 28, 2010,
Brian Diez, 26, of Lake Havasu City, reportedly entered the residence of his
ex, and began shooting, leaving five occupants dead and one woman injured. The
dead included ex-mate Deborah Langstaff and her two children by a previous relationship,
and her current boyfriend, whose birthday the party was celebrating. Friends Brock
Kelson, 20, and Deborah Nyland, 44, were also wounded, and Kelson died of his
injuries early Sunday. Nyland was flown to intensive care in Las Vegas.
After the incident, Diez took Langstaff’s
other two children he had fathered –
13-month-old Cole and 4-year-old Kaia – from the home and fled to Rancho
Cucamonga three hours away. There, he found safekeeping for the youngsters with
a family member before taking his own life, making six deaths in all.
On the Soul Plane, what are they now
thinking? We know that nothing happens without prior planning and the agreement of all concerned, yet what
these six people hoped to achieve by playing out this very public drama of
murder/suicide remains a mystery. Of course, there may have no intent to make a
public statement. Maybe the five whom Diez murdered had ganged up on him in a
previous lifetime and murdered him, and we just got to see karma being
discharged. Of course, they all had exit points that day, otherwise they would
have been just wounded, as was the woman in the hospital. But I find this veil
annoying at times.
On the other hand, a Colombian airliner carrying 132 (126 passengers and 6
crew members) people recently crashed and broke into 3 pieces while landing
during a storm on the Caribbean resort island of San Andres. With only one person
crossing over (and that was due to a heart attack), it was what police called ‘a
miracle.’ However, the fact that only one of the passengers had an exit point
that day also undoubtedly helped. Someone else without an exit point yesterday was two-year-old Dianita
Barratt, who was spending the day at Jungle Island, Florida, with her mom,
Diana, when she survived a stare-down with an escaped 500-pound Bengal tiger.
In what officials called a ‘freak accident,’ a gibbon escaped its enclosure,
wandered over to the tiger’s habitat and began pissing it off. Don’t you just
hate it when that happens? To get away from the annoying primate, the tiger jumped its 12-foot fence
and landed just a few feet away from the girl, who simply stood and calmly
stared at the big cat. Equally calmly, the mother walked over, picked up little
Dianita and walked away to safety. No exit points there!
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