They murdered a young Marine in front of his girlfriend because the man only had $8 on him. A young Marine who pulled himself out of the ghetto by his bootstraps, Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield was murdered by two people who told him he didn’t deserve to live because he had the audacity to serve his country with honor. The only fitting punishment for these two degenerates is death:
CLEVELAND – On leave from the violence he had survived in the war in Iraq, a young Marine was so wary of crime on the streets of his own home town that he carried only $8 to avoid becoming a robbery target.
Despite his caution, Lance Cpl. Robert Crutchfield, 21, was shot point-black in the neck during a robbery at a bus stop. Feeding and breathing tubes kept him alive 4 1/2 months, until he died of an infection on May 18.
Two men have been charged in the attack, and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Bill Mason said Friday the case was under review to decide whether to seek the death penalty.
“It is an awful story,” said Alberta Holt, the young Marine’s aunt and his legal guardian when he was a teenager determined to flee a troubled Cleveland school for safer surroundings in the suburbs.
Crutchfield was attacked on Jan. 5 while he and his girlfriend were waiting for a bus. He had heeded the warnings of commanders that a Marine on leave might be seen as a prime robbery target with a pocketful of money, so he only carried $8, his military ID card and a bank card.
“They took it, turned his pockets inside out, took what he had and told him since he was a Marine and didn’t have any money he didn’t deserve to live. They put the gun to his neck and shot him,” Holt told The Associated Press.
The two men charged in the attack were identified as Ean Farrow, 19, and Thomas Ray III, 20, both of Cleveland. Their attorneys did not respond to The Associated Press’ requests for comment.
Where would someone pick up the idea that Marines didn’t deserve to live? Hmmm, that’s a tough one.
I hope his family sues anti-recruiting organizations that promote hatred for the military and I hope Ean Farrow and Thomas Ray tell the press where they learned to have such animus toward the military … on their way to the gas chamber.
h/t Gateway Pundit
Two wrongs don’t make a right. No one should have the power to decide wether someone dies or lives except god.
“Where would someone pick up the idea that Marines didn’t deserve to live? Hmmm, that’s a tough one.”
I don’t get it. Please explain the linking of soldiers who fought in the Iraq War, who are opposed to it as part of a sarcastic remark. Would you feel the same about this poor vet if he spoke out against the war? Just curious?
Have you ever served? I did.
These two cowards also deserve a fate WORSE THAN DEATH… if that is at all possible…
When are we going to FINALLY send a message to the bad people in our world. Yeah, these two deserve to die, right now. No trial that takes 2 years. They’re guilty and a message needs to be sent, IMMEDIATELY!
This just makes me sick.
This guy tried and did make his life better. God be with him and those that new him.THANK YOU for your serve to help keep all of us FREE!!!
“Two wrongs don’t make a right. No one should have the power to decide wether someone dies or lives except god.”
Let me see, based on your way of thinking, ‘God’ decided that this young man, who had worked hard to become a ‘productive member of society’, DESERVED to be killed by a couple of thugs! I beg to differ. However, if we implement your thought process, lets just release Ean Farrow and Thomas Ray back into society, and I guarantee you, that someone will ensure that these individuals ‘get what they deserve’, and we’ll just right it off as, ‘it was God’s will’. Works for me.
Is it really TWO wrongs? Or, one WRONG being righted. That man was murdered in cold blood. The perpetrators deserve the same treatment and consideration that they provided the victim.
These two punks deserve to die. If you even hesitate to question that, you’re either a “born-again reservist” or simply a sympathizer. ANY man or woman, home on leave, or not, who served(s) their country should be respected and honored, as Cpl. Crutchfield should have been. Instead, two punks, two trashy, kids with nothing better to do, with their time or their lives, put a bullet in his neck. Wow! They are men, aren’t they? The defense will probably use some type of intoxication excuse to get them off, or that they didn’t have a “positive male role model” as they grew up. Well, to all the ultra-liberal social workers and psychiatrists out there, there simply IS NO EXCUSE for what they did, and instead of tax payers providing for their life behind bars, I say reinstate the electric chair and shock them into next month, ensuring a good burning to add some “discomfort” before death. Even better, hand the pair of “men” over to Crutchfield’s platoon in Iraq and allow them to “vent their frustration” on them. As a veteran myself, and one who is sick to death about the way our veterans are treated, and the terrible things that happen to them while on leave (across the country), let these two be ripped to shreds by an angry inmate, wherever they go; if the guy needs a few bucks for the inside, I’ll certainly pay him.
Ricky Bones-Actually, just as in the case of the original “Winter Soldier” campaign the majority of the winter soldiers either never served or were thrown out. Much of the testimony is a rehash of old war crimes charges that circulated on websites a few years ago, including on the White Aryan Resistances.
These spectacles are designed to make civilians think those in the service are murderers, this in turn makes young radicals perceive them as deserving of punishment including death. Is that clear enough?
I wish that punitive labor was an option. They would would be forced to produce for society, learn new skill and NEVER get out of prison again. with the profit we could not only sustain the increasing cost of prisons but also help our economy.
Eye for an Eye. Tooth for Tooth!
They knew what was going to happen when they pulled the trigger! Throw the book at these bastards!
Too bad the Marine didn’t have a firearm to protect himself with.
Semper Fi to all my brothers!
If you are going to let them off with life then you should make a special sentence and send them to Leavenworth. Though the prisoners there are prisoners they would roll out a welcome mat for what these two have done to a Vet! Or maybe duty in Iraq as a dismounted IED discovery team.
It makes me sick when this happens. I remember when it first happen when they was looking for those two shits. Like what Fred said, many people dont give a shit about our vets. It’s not right. They come back from wars, get let out of the service and the U.S. don’t do shit for them for the rest of their lives, but they make sure they take care of each other when they leave office. This man tried to make something of his life and it’s a shame that this had to happen. There’s always someone tring to knock you down. I feel for his family and his girlfriend that watched the event. But they will try and blame someone else as always and try their best to get them off so they can hit the streets and do it again. To the family and friends Robert Crutchfield, Semper Fi.
Yeah, Blare, you’re outta serious gas with that one. Those two should die in just the same way they caused him to die. It’s a different type of evil that would kill a soldier who was in a war, and they are it. Someone ougtta just go take them out, not wait for the tax paying citizens of Cleveland to pay for their 3-hots-and-a-cot for the next 10-15 years while they appeal (which will happen, b/c it’s premeditated capital murder). Too bad they can’t be sent up to San Quentin or down to Raiford, those boys would make a good example of them, in the case that they don’t get taken out first. God Bless the men and women of all of the U.S. Armed Forces that continue to serve in the hopes of both keeping our country strong and safe, and to provide for a better life for themselves and their families where opportunities are slim. Unfortunately, part of the reward of that continued service is the right for idiots to say idiotic things, sort of a rose and thorns issue. These people are (and have since this country formed), losing life, limb, family, property, and sometimes sanity, as a result of being away for such long stretches of time. They were not the manufacturers of this war, they just took orders, orders that others are not willing to sign up for. I’m grateful for their service, and honor them, regardless of Abu Ghraib, or Gitmo, or ANYTHING else that comes to light. There are nuts in the military just are there are nuts in society, it’s a perfect place for them, but one (or a few) bad apples don’t spoil the tree, and they deserve our respect. As such, it makes it especially horrific that these men would not only kill a U.S. Marine, and in the execution style that they did, but that they, who are society’s worthless, would dare say that Because he was a Marine, that he didn’t deserve to live. They don’t even have any credibility for those words, and I hope they are punished to the full extent of the law, the justice systems, or the vigilante’s, it doesn’t matter to me.
I found Ean Farrow’s myspace page, guy looks like a douchebag.
http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendid=131721152
Semper Fi Marine!
Release those two into the neighborhoods of the liberals. See how much u like them then.
PLEASE,PLEASE! Let me throw the switch, aim in, inject them,any thing! I just want too see them suffer!!!!
make the execution nice and messy….oh yah and in public…better yet lets have national news broad cast of these two guys getting offed. Theres a message, some justice, and a warning for everyone.
man i hope those guys get their asses molested by some big dck inmate who loves young men, those two fckin pussies deserve the worst punishment imaginable, where are their parents? they need to be stoned to death for producing such garbage and releasing them to society!!!!! or better yet, why not ship them to Falluja with no weapons, no ammo, shit nothing, let Haji have some fun with them. Robert Crutchfield, I salute you, may the lord keep you and protect you and give your loved ones the strength to cope with your lose. SEMPER FI MY BROTHER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
These two subhuman animals should be charged with with Treason and publicly hanged by the neck until dead.
Send them to Iraq.
just to let you all know for all of you to be so damn patriotic you forget one thing…in this county it is always innocent untill proven guilty not the other way around, as you all have played it. all of you go by what the media says but dont know anything about anyone and their everyday lives. also i just want to tell you that for you all to be so high and mighty your comments make you seem ignorant and uneducated. i also want to let you know that im am now free and love your comments and fan mail… 🙂
You got off because the Judge ruled Crutchfield’s dying declaration inadmissible. You are guilty and you know it, scum.
actually i beat it because im innocent. mr.taylor for you to know so much you need to read the transcripts from the court room. i was never identified by anyone. the crooked cuyahoga county justice system is who has claimed all of that. READ THE TRANSCRIPTS!!!! then you will see the errors of your ways.
YOU ARE POOR WHITE TRASH YOU DON’T EVEN KNOW ALL THE FACTS OF THE CASE IF YOU WERE FOLLOWING THE CASE YOU FUCKING PECKERWOOD YOU WOULD KNOW THAT THEY WERE FOUND NOT GUILTY OF THIS CRIME BECAUSE THEY ARE TRULY INNOCENT. YOU’RE THE FUCKING DOUCHE BAG YOU FUCKING PUSSY YOU FUCKING WETBACK GOT A LOT OF BALLS ONLINE!!! YOU ARE THE ONE WHO DOES NOT DESERVE TO LIVE ONLINE SPREADING HATRED NOW SUCK MY ASS UNTIL YOUR JAWS BURST WITH HOT SHIT!!! IN FACT YOUR WHOLE WETBACK FAMILY CAN!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU ARE A BITCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YOU FUCKING RACIST MOTHERFUCKER GO STRAIGHT TO HELL AND LEAVE MY COUSINS ALONE!!!!!!
YOU YOUR MOMMA AND YOUR DADDY ARE ALL FROM WEST VIRGINIA FUCKING EACH OTHER THAT’S WHY YOU HAVE A WARPED MIND. SUCK MY CLIT YOU LITTLE MINDED BITCH
First of all who the fuck r u people to say that the 2 men deserve to die i dint know god was here on earth again, they r out because they beat the fuckin case they didnt do it! there r some white people on here that r really (niggerish) not black people it means uneducated jack asses.
I hope Ean Farrow’s next victims are you.
hey convicts lets play a game. so you got away with it and you say you didnt do it, i think thats cool. want to have a little more fun, you see im the kind of person who kills the killers just to kill the right for reason even though its so wrong dont you agree.well i9 didnt ever get caught cuz i never did it , dont you agree, only time will tell when i decide to meet you i love living in the streets and hunting little men like you all. hey we might even become real good friends with my dick in your ass and a gun in your mouth. but youll love it. hey even if you didnt do it and are not guilty its too late youve responded to the mail and have made yourself a wonderful target because of your self lust in taking pride for not commiting a crime, when you should be taking pride in a actually doing it and not giving a fuck or b serving the usa. dont worryu i will never tell you when its going to happen. i cant wait to play again. he he