Thursday, September 13, 2007
One Fatal Shot: A struggle to forgive one son, not forget the other - Seattle P-I
One bullet can pierce the hearts of many.
On Sept. 21, 2006, Jordan Jantoc accidentally shot his stepbrother Michael Miller to death while the two were playing with a gun.
In a series of interviews conducted between March and August 2007, members of their extended family describe how that tragedy has affected them.
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Once a sprawling crew of a dozen children, teenagers and assorted adult relations who happily packed themselves into a used van for boisterous road trips, the family has disintegrated. It is now a strained constellation of isolated bodies tenuously held together by Timothy Miller -- father to Mikey and stepfather to Jordan -- who finds himself in the unusual position of being both a victim and defender of the accused, mourning the death of his athletic teenage son, while struggling to raise the boy who killed him.
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When not petitioning the legal system, the bespectacled nurse spent every free minute scraping together money for his stepson's $25,000 bail while simultaneously trying to collect enough for Mikey's funeral. Two weekends in a row, the family set up a carwash and bake sale. Neighbors often dropped by, pushing a few crumpled dollars into the children's hands. ...
One bullet can pierce the hearts of many.
On Sept. 21, 2006, Jordan Jantoc accidentally shot his stepbrother Michael Miller to death while the two were playing with a gun.
In a series of interviews conducted between March and August 2007, members of their extended family describe how that tragedy has affected them.
...
Once a sprawling crew of a dozen children, teenagers and assorted adult relations who happily packed themselves into a used van for boisterous road trips, the family has disintegrated. It is now a strained constellation of isolated bodies tenuously held together by Timothy Miller -- father to Mikey and stepfather to Jordan -- who finds himself in the unusual position of being both a victim and defender of the accused, mourning the death of his athletic teenage son, while struggling to raise the boy who killed him.
...
When not petitioning the legal system, the bespectacled nurse spent every free minute scraping together money for his stepson's $25,000 bail while simultaneously trying to collect enough for Mikey's funeral. Two weekends in a row, the family set up a carwash and bake sale. Neighbors often dropped by, pushing a few crumpled dollars into the children's hands. ...
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