Stone The Evil That Men Do

1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-6678-1762-0
Verlag: BookBaby
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet/DL/kein Kopierschutz

E-Book, Englisch, 200 Seiten

Dr. Ron Davies, a renown genetic researcher launches a research project to genetically engineer the DNA of extremely violent criminals to remove two aberrant genes identified as causing criminals to be predisposed to violence. While Davies is conducting his research, the Russian mafia hacks his computer data and determines that if he is successful, the impact of his discovery could be devastating to their criminal operations. The ensuing war between good and evil will determine the fate of mankind.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Stone, Ron

Leseproben

9:30 am, August 3, 2019 “C’mon, Mom! The store opens at 10:00. I need to be sure to get there in time to get the clothes I need for school this year.” Elise’s mother was hurrying to get ready to take her daughter to the local Walmart in El Paso, Texas to finish up her “back to school” shopping. Her daughter would be a junior in high school this year and clothing had become an important part of the mystique of being a junior. It was early August around 10:40 in the morning when they pulled into the parking lot. Elise jumped out of the van and started into the store when the first shots rang out. “Let’s go, Mom!” were the last words she would say to her mother. When she looked back, she saw her mother fall to the pavement. Right next to her, another mother with two small children were among the first to die when a single white male, Patrick Wood Crusius, 21 years old opened fire in the parking lot before entering the store. Crusius then walked inside carrying a fully loaded WASR-10 rifle, a semi-automatic civilian version of the Russian-made AK-47 and began his rampage. Two shoppers close to the front door of the super center were the first targets he shot at close range upon entering the store. Crusius killed them instantly before others realized what was happening. Blood and human tissue splattered on three other customers at the nearby checkout counter before they too were slaughtered. The carnage was unspeakable as one after another, innocent, predominantly Latino shoppers were cut to ribbons by his barrage of automatic gunfire. There seemed to be no pattern or logic to the killings except Crusius focused mainly on Latinos. Although the manager did everything he could to evacuate and protect his customers, 23 were killed and 23 more were severely wounded before the attack ended and Crusius walked to his car and escaped. The store was filled with the smell of gunpowder and the cries of the wounded. Survivors scrambled to try to render first aid and stanch the bleeding of wounds sustained by their family and friends stuck by the random firing. Following the attack, Crusius calmly drove to an intersection not far from the Walmart and surrendered to a motorcycle officer and identified himself as the shooter. He was taken into custody and was later arraigned on 90 federal charges: 22 counts of committing a hate crime resulting in death, 22 counts of use of a firearm to commit murder, 23 counts of a hate crime involving an attempt to kill and 23 counts of use of a firearm during a crime. His shooting has been described as the deadliest attack on Latinos in modern American history. Clearly, Patrick Wood Crusius was evil personified. Ron Davies listened to the morning news broadcast streaming the event when he woke up at 6:30 and turned on the coffee. He stepped outside into the overcast Florida morning and picked up the newspaper in his driveway. He was a creature of habit and followed the same morning ritual that his mother had for most of her 97 years. The morning heat was already oppressive and the sun had not even come up yet. He knew it would be a scorcher once the day was in full swing. He sat with his coffee in the living room and prepared to read the paper and do the crossword puzzle and the Jumble. He enjoyed the mental exercise and felt this kept him intellectually challenged far removed from his responsibilities as a biology/genetics professor at the University of South Florida in Tampa. The front page top center banner of the Tampa Bay Times that morning read Fifteen Killed by Gunman at Mall in Miami. The article went on to describe a demented former employee of one of the stores in the mall who returned after being fired and killed six people in his former employer’s store as well as nine shoppers in the mall itself. Ron finished his coffee and what he wanted to read in the paper and went out to the beach for his morning two mile run. As he ran, the image of those fifteen deaths as well as those in El Paso lingered and he knew there must be some genetic reason that would cause extreme violent behavior like that. The world had become a dangerous place in which to live and he decided it was time for him to find out why and how to change it. Davies was born in Philadelphia and lived there with his three generation family until he was eight years old. His mother was an Irish immigrant who came to America when she was twelve years old from Belfast, Northern Ireland. Her father served in the Merchant Marine and upon leaving the service became a master boilermaker assigned to work on the Titanic at Harland and Wolff Shipyard in Belfast. Davies’ father was an orphan who grew up in the Odd Fellows Home in Philadelphia with his brother. Both lived a hard life without any real parental support and learned to fend for themselves in the tough neighborhoods of Philly. As Ron grew up in the city, he learned “street smarts” from his father and how to protect himself. It was there he became aware of the evil that can be found in the environment around him. On his way home from school one afternoon, Ron was confronted by an older boy who demanded Ron’s jacket and any money he had on him. The boy was about eleven years old and Ron knew he was outmatched in size and weight. He knew what kids like this were like on the streets and knew he would either have to concede or make the decision to stand his ground. His father had always taught him to try to talk his way out of a confrontation whenever possible rather than fight his way out. But if he had to fight, anything was fair game. Ron did his best to talk the older boy out of stealing his coat and what little money he had left on him from school. The older boy would have none of it and made his move toward Ron to take what he wanted. Ron’s size and speed made all the difference in dealing with a thug like this one. As the boy made his move, Ron sidestepped him and went down on one knee just as his father taught him. Using the older boy’s forward movement, in one swift, decisive move Ron focused all his strength into a punch directly between the older boy’s legs and hit him squarely in the testicles. The force of the blow dropped the boy to his knees and he couldn’t catch his breath. The boy lay there whimpering as his friends watched and snickered. Ron immediately ran for home and didn’t bother to look back. Ron’s parents eventually moved to Florida where his father worked for an aerospace corporation in St. Petersburg until his retirement. Living in a three generation family his entire life gave Davies an insight into the various habits and idiosyncrasies of his family that fascinated him. So much so, that when he graduated from high school he attended college and majored in biology with an emphasis in genetics. Following 9/11, he enlisted and served as a sniper in the Army Special Forces during the Middle East campaign. Following his tour of duty, he returned home and continued his post graduate studies ultimately completing his PhD in genetic engineering and biotechnology. Each morning as he read the daily paper, Davies was struck by the number and severity of violent crimes committed throughout the world. It seemed like the front page of every issue focused on some local, national or international incident involving an individual or group that had perpetrated some unthinkable act of violence against innocent people. In very few circumstances, could investigators isolate a specific reason that prompted these acts. For the most part, the reasons given were mental instability, revenge for something their company or friends had done to them, problems with relationships with family or lovers or issues related to chemical or alcohol dependency. He could easily understand the old media adage “If it bleeds, it leads.” Over time, this constant barrage of violence-related news began to suggest to Davies that perhaps there was a more significant underlying reason for this proclivity toward violence throughout the world. Perhaps the issues were not just mental instability, but rather genetic in nature and that something in the genetic makeup of the perpetrators was the basis for these bizarre acts. So Davies decided to take matters into his own hands and begin his own study of the major issues of violence that have rocked the world over the past few decades. Davies decided then and there to create a list of specific incidents he felt were among the most indicative of the kind of behavior that required study. He opened his laptop and started to write: Perhaps the most obvious event was that of the 9/11 attacks in the United States. Viewed as one of the greatest “hate crimes” in the world, evidence suggests that this heinous terrorist assault on September 11, 2001 was committed by Islamic members of Al-Qaeda under the leadership of Osama Bin Laden who saw their mission as part of a greater “jihad” or holy war against the United States. This single act of violence caused the death of almost 3,000 innocent Americans and injured roughly 25,000. Bin Laden subsequently became the subject of a decade-long international manhunt and on May 2, 2011, was shot and killed by US Navy SEALs inside a private residential compound in Pakistan. Under his leadership, the Al-Qaeda organization was responsible for many other mass-casualty attacks worldwide. On October 1, 2017, Stephen Paddock opened fire on a crowd of innocent concertgoers at the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival on the Las Vegas Strip in Nevada killing 58 people and wounding 413. The total number injured as a result of the panic created...