The Hardest Part

Telling a victim's family they have lost a loved one is always difficult, but telling Jimmy it was Katie was the hardest thing I've have had to do in a long time. He knew something was up, she hadn't shown up at Nadine's first communion, she hadn't been heard from for over 12 hours. When the sirens went whaling down the street past the church, he had to have known. When I saw the body, all mangled, in the ground, before I even knew it was Katie, a chill ran up and down my spine. There was something different about this case. It just didn't feel right. I was hoping it wasn't Katie and I wouldn't have to tell one of my childhood best friends his daughter died. I had never been close to a victim’s family before. I had known people from the neighborhood and the mini mart on the corner but never on a personal level, like Jimmy. When Jimmy knew it was Katie and let out the screams and words of horror and disbelief, it scarred me forever. For nights on end every time I closed my eyes I could see the look of terror and hear Jimmy's screams. I never want to experience anything like that, ever again.


Agbaje, Shawler .  Movie #90 - Mystic River.  18 February  2012.  7 November 2013 <http://ajshawler.blogspot.com/2012/02/movie-90-mystic-river.html>.