RO UGG T
perha it might be held at an
o�her location oth r than for
eign country, but id that it
should be held in an out of the
wayplaoo.
" Retrea , he . d, provide a
comfort level, a means of'relaza
tion" which aid in the decision
making process.
McClary said that retreats
back aeross th brid
Commis ioner Charles Yar
brough and other commission rs
who rarely agree with Wysinger
took turns supporting him in his
disapproval of Judge Black's de
cision.
"1 think the strongest mes
sage that this body could send
unanimously is, to support Com
missioner Wysinger," Yar
brough said, "because he is dead
on the money this time."
"What we're witnessing here.
is, ... which some of it is our own
fault because we don't get ex
cited, hyped up or mad until a
Caucasian shoots an African
American," Commissioner Ricky
Hill said. "Then we get all
up and want to protest and go
march on the courthouse. But
Black-on-Black crime has al
ways been our number one prob
lem."
"In St. Joe, these judges still
think we're their children. And
they don't see us as taking our
lives seriously on one another, so
th� d"on't take it seriously," Hill
said. We have to stop sending
due� signals ourselves and get
serIOUS on Black-on-Black
crime."
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in 0 Michigan, Stit said.
" We are now about 9 percent
low the national average for
prope�y tax," Sti s said. "Plus,
our shght d rein the income
�x when e ry other state is go
ing up sends a big message."
Wiker said she thinks Pro-
1 A will help businesses a
little. .
Commissioner Ralph Cren
shaw, Chairman of the Commis
sion Public Safety Committee
said, "We certainly need to send
a message to the people aero
the river that this is our city and
w.e're goi� to make this Ci ty the
kind ?f �I.ty �hat is free of people
that IS mjurmg and killing each
other."
SINCE THE shooting of
V �larie Gill, h r d� ughter Lisa
Gill Cro and the death of Lisa's
unborn child in March, the Ben
ton Harbor Police Department
along with city officials have
been trying to fi nd some way to
keep offenders from becoming
repeat offenders and "slipping
throu "tt8cks 'Of t justice
system" and bein put back on
the street.
Benton Harbor Det. Lt. Milt
Ay;ay described the deaths of the
Gills as, "one of the most brutal
�nal acts and biggest system
failures that I have ever experi
enced."
Marcu Hom, the boyfriend of
Lisa and the father of her unborn
child was arrested for th brutal
murders.
Horn, at age 15, was arrested
on two counts of assault with a,
deadly weapon. In 1990 at the
age of 16; he was again �rrested
after he sho a man in the head
during a robbery, at mpt. He
was waived into Circuit Court
but plea bargained with th�
prosecutors office and was n
tenced as a juvenile to 13-
months in a state training
school. Three months later he
was arrested, pleaded guilty and
was sentenced to 1-20 years in
the state prison for being in the
possession of crack cocaine and
marijuana, but was released af
ter serving only 90 days in a boot
camp.
DURING TillS time when
Hom was released and on pa
role, he committed the brutal
murders of three generations of
the Gill family.
Just ng into the fifth
month of this year, the City of
Benton Harbor has had more
homicide than all of last year.
�ince the sh<>?ting of Thomas ,
which was the CIty'S ninth homi
cide .�ctim, the 10th suspected
homicide bas taken place, just
across the street from City Hall
and the police department.
. �e body of man was found
1 n hi apartm nt at th Harbor
Towers Senior Citiz ns building
on May 1. At p time poli
had not r Ie the name of th
victim, but according to relati
of the victim, h was identifi
as Raymond Lewi ,who lived on
th sixth floor .
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I uidelines
hould be
e in 14
years.
Prison record how Cross has
an exemplary record, having
KED
cord be corrected
th char were dismi at
trial by the jud . No only did
the Parole B rd not correct i
records, the Board Chairperson
William Hudson stated h �
lieved C w involved in uch
a scheme.
Denied coneideratlon for pa
role again in 1989, C ' attor
ney at the time wrote to the
Parole Board advising the Bo rd
that the con id ration of the
�urder fo� profit charges was
Improper moo the court had dis
missed the charge.
The mes age wa ignored.
The Parole Board in its minutes
of July 31, 1990 again referred to
Cross's "possible" involvement in
murder for profit scheme.
Upon transfer in 1991 to the
�keland Correctional Facility
in Coldwater, where he mains
c- was again commended i�
reports by prison authoriti for
his outstanding prison record
and for coming to the aid of a
prison guard under attack.
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