I have been in Albuquerque as a reporter for the past seven years. During that time I have seen a lot of bad things, often up close and face-to-face. I've covered countless stories of senseless murders, family members killing family members, and terrible crimes that are often too graphic to mention. Over the years, constant crime coverage and never ending stories of shootings and death have sadly, in some ways, hardened my emotions to such cases. Frankly, I'm not surprised when I hear a "shot-fired" call over the scanner. Most of these crimes, by my own anecdotal observations, involve drugs or pride over gang affiliations.
But never before have I come across a story so senseless as the tragic end of Tyrus Toribio, the three year old boy found buried at an Albuquerque park. This story is truely heartbreaking, and for lack of a better word, inconceivable.
His mother, Tiffany Toribio, is locked up, charged with an open count of murder. Police say she suffocated her child and buried him. The reason? Police say Toribio told them she didn't want him living in a world where nobody cares about him like she lived.
This case doesn't involve drugs, at least that we know of, and doesn't involve a common motive. The fact that a mother is accused of killing her own child obviously has touched a nerve within the Albuquerque community. Such a thing doesn't happen, shouldn't happen between a mother and child.
Today I'll be heading over to a local church for a public memorial service for Tyrus. Not sure what I will expect, but I do find it phenomenal that there has been a tremendous outpouring of support and grief from members of the Albuquerque community that didn't know Tyrus or his mother.
-----------------------------
jeremyjojola.com
0 comments:
Post a Comment