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." JO continued from page A 1 continued from page A 1 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 . Three core and Ten Birthday 'elebration o 1 cl Announc r . Ra li ) II t Of 4>. Po itive Mu ';c with a Me a e " SAO COACHMAN RadIO rsonaltty v:» son �1�S'�SI , .;, r'f "H i.' i '( ., L"� - I.·F R� 10 .. COACHMAN'S RECORDS 571·2222 IJ, • fit ,(u'" t 1 ommutation and 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. 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