Unarmed Florida Teenager Shot in the Back...

No, not Trayvon Martin, Mark Drewes. The gunman got jumpy, and ended the life of a handsome young man, this one shot in the back, with no physical altercation even.

Didn't hear about it back then? The Catholic boy, shot by a Jewish accountant in Boca after the young man -- his parents' only child -- played a childish Halloween prank on the night of his 16th birthday, and then ran away...

"Justice" was slow in coming, and helped usher in the legislation that might just help clear George Zimmerman, the Hispanic triggerman in the Martin shooting.

I wonder*: even though the Drewes are not black, if the Martin family might find some solace -- at least in knowing they are not alone -- from the Drewes family. You see, it's not just black boys shot dead by guns in Florida neighborhoods, much as some might wish to spin it that way...

White victims hope for justice for their own too.

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* I also wonder about newsreports that say the teenager had simply slipped out at halftime for a soda and candy snack. If so, weren't people at home waiting on him? Didn't they hear sirens and the ambulance in their neighborhood, and wonder that the young man had not yet returned home?

If the reports are true, that only hours later did the family report Trayvon missing and the father identify his body at the morgue, then I wonder whether or not it would harm the story, or the presumption of innocence, if Trayvon indeed was out for a slow walk in the rain, perhaps cutting between houses to get to his eventual home destination...

It's not the same as playing ding-dong-ditch at midnight, but surely non-emotional justice demands that these youthful victims need not be angels or saints, simply unarmed and not initiating violence, to determine if the adults responding violently with guns overreacted.