Father Dies Saving Daughter From DUI Driver
CHICAGO — Chicago police say a man died as he tried to shield his four-year-old daughter from an auto allegedly driven by a man under the influence of a controlled substance.
Joseph Richardson was walking his daughter Kaniyah to a McDonald’s for burgers late Monday when a car jumped the curb. Police say the 39-year-old Richardson grabbed his daughter just before the car slammed the two into a fence.
Richardson was pronounced dead at the scene. Kaniyah was taken to Comer Children’s Hospital in serious condition.
Police say the driver of the car, 32-year-old Angelo Thomas of Chicago, was charged with two felony counts of aggravated DUI. Witnesses say the man was driving erratically before the accident.
Richardson, a church musician, was the father of three, two girls and a boy, all under the age of 10.
(AP)
Bless him …
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Some things are unforgiving. Give the driver the needle. No difference from taking a gun and killing the father.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:11 pmthe needle is too good for that scum.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:17 pmRest in Peace. You’ll have your little girl back someday.
May 7th, 2008 at 8:24 pmThe good people in the world don’t deserve such a cruel fate. Hopefully he rests in peace. As for the driver he deserves nothing less than a painful death. An eye for an eye.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:17 pmLord let the gravity of Thomas’s actions haunt him into repentance or for the rest of his life.
May 7th, 2008 at 9:28 pm
RIP-amazing what parental instinct leads a parent to do.
May 8th, 2008 at 2:30 amContrast the actions of this Christian Hero Father with the fckng muzzies who beat, stab, throw acid on, burn, stone, shoot, hang, strangle and butcher “their own daughters” for things absolutely impossible to rationalize. And then they claim “honor” had something to do with their actions.
May 8th, 2008 at 5:11 amThis one Good Christian Man is worth more than all the shitslamaniacal sperm donors in the world, combined.
Semper Fi Dad!
May 8th, 2008 at 6:05 am