Monday, October 22, 2018

Haley Bogdon - Virginia Man Beaten To Death Trying To Help A Stranger

This article is about a man who beat to death a good samaritan who was trying to stop a woman from being sexually assaulted.  Patricio Salazar, a 54 year old man was killed by 27 year old Michael Nash.  Nash was seen physically and sexually assaulting a woman in front of Salazar and he tried to step in and help the woman out.  A witness heard the woman screaming and when he walked over, he say her in a ball without clothing and screaming.  The witness saw Salazar laying on the ground with blood all over his face and he said that he was in a lot of pain and the back of his head hurt.  He later died after arriving at the hospital.  The witness told Salazar over and over that he was a hero for stepping in to help.  A GoFundMe page was created by the witness to raise money for Salazar's family and nearly $5,700 of the $10,000 goal was raised that night. 

This article saddens me and I feel that it just shows the state of the world today and how senseless acts of violence happen for no apparent reason.  I feel that the writer gave the facts, but also brought in some emotion to the writing when it was mentioned that the witness let Salazar know he was a hero and is trying to raise money for his family.  I hope that people will not hear about this story and not want to help out people in need in the future.  Hopefully Nash will spend the rest of his life in prison for these violent acts that he committed. 

5 comments:

  1. This is terrible, why are people like this... The worse part of it is that the man was trying to help a women get to safety from a sexually assaulter. I hope in the future we can help to eliminate situations like this where someone is hurt because they we helping people. - Joziah German

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  2. It was very brave of Salazar to step into the situation. People usually do not involve themselves in them because it's not their problem. A poor man's life got taken but I hope his legacy will live on in his family.

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  3. I hope that this article doesn't make people wary of doing what's right. This man was brave and deserves everything that this world will give him.

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  4. It's so sad, seeing this is the kind of world we've become. I hope this story gets more recognition to hopefully change things around.

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  5. This article is very upsetting. It's so sad that we still have to hear about things like this going on in our world today. Great work though, Haley! -Karsyn Kelly

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