Posted by ColdBeer on May 15, 2008 at 7:11 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Dealing drugs, carrying guns illegally...

I'm sorry for your pain Alice Meyers, but your son brought this on himself. The unknown shooter may even be the parent of a kid that lost his/her life due to crack your son supplied.

The P&C sure tries to paint a pretty picture of this dirt bag.

Posted by Rooster07 on May 15, 2008 at 8:28 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Such a quick rush to judgement, ColdBeer. You should be ashamed of yourself. Although he had a criminal background involving drugs, there was no indication (at least in the article) that drugs were involved. Wait until facts are supplied before 'painting your own picture.'

Posted by ColdBeer on May 15, 2008 at 8:38 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Rooster07, I didn't "paint the picture" I don't even know this guy. He painted that picture himself and he painted a dirt bag. His arrest record, in Charleston County alone, actually goes back to 2003, not 2006. He was arrested, several times, for Possession with intent to Distribute in close proximity to a school and for unlawful possession of a fire arm.

If I live to be 200 years old I will NEVER be arrested for drugs or unlawful possession of a firearm:
1) I don't distribute drugs (to anyone, much less kids)
2) I don't possess drugs
3) I don't use drugs
4) All of the weapons I own are owned legally and used legally.

As I said, I feel sorry for the mother. There is no doubt in my mind that, with the number of arrests this guy had, that he caused her a lot of pain and suffering long before this incident.

You can look at these articles through rose colored glasses if you wish Rooster07, but the bottom line is that the Low Country is a little bit safer with this guy off of the streets.

Posted by Weeeee on May 15, 2008 at 8:48 a.m. (Suggest removal)

The whole purpose of this comments section is to voice your own opinion. Rooster, this guy was a turd...a drag on society. Search his name on the Charleston County website. It's obvious to anyone who can read that society is better off. That all being said, I feel for his mother, but even she's in denial.

Posted by forget on May 15, 2008 at 9:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Usually when a poster immediatly goes with the standard "you don't know this person", they also may have a listing or 2 on the Chas County website. Only another person living on the wrong side of the law would sympathize with another criminal. While I do have some sympathy for his mother, even with his other drug and gun arrests his parents still didn't have a clear picture of what their son was into. All they said was they know he "smoked marijuana occassionally".

Posted by carolinagal on May 15, 2008 at 10:24 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Does the family not have a picture of this guy to put in the paper that makes him look somewhat respectable? He looks like a thug.

Posted by ColdBeer on May 15, 2008 at 10:37 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Yesterday, the responses started off questioning his looks. I kept my mouth shut because I have actually known some people that, for some reason, want to look this way and yet they are good people. I've never understood the draw. I did, however, look in to his criminal background on the Charleston County site and found out that it isn't just a look thing with him, he actually is a criminal thug.

This photo looks odd too. Almost as if it has been Photoshop'd. It looks as if his image was placed against a different background.

Posted by Rebel_Yell on May 15, 2008 at 11:09 a.m. (Suggest removal)

According to most posters here if you even think "innocent until proven guilty", you must be hiding something and deserve to die. You people have no backbone and would roll over in a second to give away every right that this country was founded on. I guess now I am a criminal and must have a criminal record according to your logic . . . if that's what we are going to call it. Jesus would be ashamed of you all for being so closed minded and judgmental.

Posted by deon_staley on May 15, 2008 at 11:27 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Enough is said!!! RebelYell

Posted by jca on May 15, 2008 at 11:39 a.m. (Suggest removal)

that pic is photoshopped yesterday the same pround

Posted by forget on May 15, 2008 at 11:40 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Rebel - try looking at things this way. I do loans. You come and sit in front of me and apply. I then am going to read your past credit history. At this point, I'm going to judge whether or not you are likely to pay this loan back by your HISTORY. Ok, this person's rapsheet is like his credit history. You take that into account, put it together with what happened to him, and a person can make an educated assumption of the scenario that probably led to his death.
As my mom used to say "you are judged by the company you keep".

Posted by ColdBeer on May 15, 2008 at 11:47 a.m. (Suggest removal)

Rebel_Yell, get over yourself. The guy was a dirt bag. Not being able to see that is your problem, not ours. He's gone and we're better off now that he is gone. Hopefully. many more of the same types of dirt bags will follow suit. FYI, I could care less what your jesus thinks of me.

Posted by Charles_Town on May 15, 2008 at 12:23 p.m. (Suggest removal)

It's a shame. I do believe people can change, but in some cases when someone has a lot of bad records from their past I think the number is very low and quite often anything from your past can come back to haunt you. I mean I can understand an occasional mistake or two, but to keep repeating them, apparently you are not good at it and need to find something else to do with your time.

Posted by abitskeptical on May 15, 2008 at 1:12 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I think Rebel-Yell also was commenting on forget's comment that "Only another person living on the wrong side of the law would sympathize with another criminal".

This is probably the wrong case to argue this point because this guy has multiple arrests & few, if any, people are wrongfully arrested over & over again as he had been....

but, I beg to differ with forget.

People who have knowledge of corruption within the system which have led to wrongful arrests & convictions tend to take much of what is reported with a grain of salt, & might indeed sympathize to the extent that in this country everyone is supposed to be innocent until proven guilty & even then there is no guarantee that the innocent will go free. Imagine what would happen if we do away altogether with that concept.

Posted by abitskeptical on May 15, 2008 at 1:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

clarification..lest part of my above post is read wrong--I am not implying that he was wrongfully arrested...what I mean is that he was arrested over & over & it would be very unlikely that with that history all or any of the arrests were wrongful...

Posted by JohnS on May 15, 2008 at 1:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

This is a sad story. No one deserves to be murdered.

Posted by Tulane75 on May 15, 2008 at 1:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Some of you are assuming that the past criminal history is relevant to the murder. I don't know whether it is or not. Is the logic that once someone has a criminal record, the the circumstances of his murder do not matter?

Is it possible that his murder was committed by someone who didn't know him and that it was a random violent act? What is there in the story that relates past behavior to this crime?

What in the world is an "EDUCATED ASSUMPTION?" There is nothing educated about an assumption! An assumption is really just a rush to judgment. You are just judging by appearance, judging a book by its cover.

Posted by forget on May 15, 2008 at 2:26 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Tulane - please refer back to the loan scenario. If you sat in front of me and applied for a loan, I read your credit history, and it lists defaulted loans. I'm going to make an EDUCATED ASSUMPTION that there is a good chance you won't pay this loan back either. So therefore, you are judged by your past. Your past mistakes are coming back to haunt you. Now fast forward to this young man. This article (and they seldom do) doesn't list his past "accomplishments", so to get a full story of his life and how he lived it go to the Chas. County site and look up his name. There you will find his long list of arrests for drug distribution and weapon charges. Now I'm not by no means saying anyone should be murdered or anything of that sort, but living that sort of lifestyle makes one likely to meet their end by these means. His murder might not have had anything to do with his past, but there is a better chance that it did. I do hope they get the individual(s) that did this, because if they don't, we'll just be discussing the same thing at a later date involving yet someone else.

Posted by ColdBeer on May 15, 2008 at 3:10 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I made no mention as to this murder being related to any of his arrest. For my argument, that doesn't even matter.

All I said is that the Low Country is a little bit safer with this guy off of the streets. Period. I did not draw that conclusion from his "looks", I drew it from his past actions.

Posted by IKnowMe on May 15, 2008 at 3:48 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Okay...let me start by saying that I have known Jesse since 2001. I haven't spoken to him in a while and I'm really sad that so many of you that don't even know him can say some of the things you have said. "Dirt-bag", "thug"?!?!?!? Really???? For the people that thinks he deserves to have been murdered but say you feel sorry for his mother...you all should be ashamed. Inevitably people will die, but no one deserves to be murdered...no matter how they live their lives. I'm really hurt by what you all said. The Jesse that I know was very funny, very outgoing, and far from thuggish. Maybe he did go on the wrong side of the tracks. When I left for college, we kind of grew apart...but, nonetheless, when I saw him from time to time over the years, he was still the same Jesse. The insensitive comments really hurt. Think about if it was someone YOU knew. If it was your brother, your uncle, your bestfriend. Would you really want people saying "Look at his criminal record, that dirt-bag deserves to have been murdered and left in the house to die." It's really pathetic. I'm not vouching for the life that he has led, but we were the same age, we hung out together in high school, and we had fun at high school sporting events. He just took a wrong turn...should he be murdered for that? Oh and by the way...that picture had to have been photo-shopped (HORRIBLY). I didn't even recognize that photo. It looks way different that what he really looked like and I just saw him a few months ago. So for those that are judging by the picture...what other reason do you think he should have been murdered for since you thought that he looked like a thug?

Posted by Charles_Town on May 15, 2008 at 3:50 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I agree with most of your post AllWoman.

Posted by ColdBeer on May 15, 2008 at 4:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)

IKnowMe, you are directing your anger in the wrong direction. We did not make Jesse Meyers deal drugs. He made that choice on his own. I understand your disappointment and anger with him. I too would be upset if I found out my friend was a drug dealing dirt bag.

Regardless, the Low Country is a little bit safer with out him on the streets.

Posted by Test2007 on May 15, 2008 at 4:14 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I would also point out that it says he was never convicted BUT it always takes a few on P&C to rush to judgment because they assume he was a "thug" or "dirt bag". Absolutely wonderful. No one knows for sure if his prior arrests had anything to do with him getting killed. Unless you know someone who was there or know of any evidence to state the contrary then I wouldn't be so quick to past judgment. I'm sorry forget but yours and allwoman's analogies just seems like a bit of hogwash to me. Nothing is as cut and dried or as black and white as you all seem to think.

Posted by IKnowMe on May 15, 2008 at 4:15 p.m. (Suggest removal)

ColdBeer...I'm not angry with him for selling drugs...I'm not angry with you for leaving your crappy comments either. I think the real dirt bag is you. Like I said, I'm not vouching for the things tha he did...but do you think his murderer is a hero for killing him and making the lowcountry "a little bit safer"? With people thinking the way that you think, the lowcountry will never be safe.

Posted by ColdBeer on May 15, 2008 at 4:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)

IKnowMe, I never once said that the murderer should not be found and put to death. I feel he/she should and I hope it happens quickly. I'll be glad to know that we have one less drug dealer AND one less murderer on the streets.

Again, I understand your anger and disappointment. I even understand your reluctance to direct them towards their cause.

Posted by forget on May 15, 2008 at 4:46 p.m. (Suggest removal)

He had only been arrested for those offenses, not convicted.....yet. Now, I do understand that maybe people might get arrested for something they may have not done. But not over and over again. I have been existing on this earth for about 40 years. Not once have I been mistakenly arrested for anything. Haven't even been involved in any type of investigation about anything. The reason? I don't get involved in illegal activity, nor do I associate with those that do.
Now, if you don't want people to think that you are a criminal, don't act like one, look like one, or associate with the likes of one. Pretty simple.
Oh, and one more thing, maybe hold down a job. And working the streets doesn't count.

Posted by abitskeptical on May 15, 2008 at 5:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

allwomen I also agree with you & have had the same talk with my kids.(I had a similar situation occur with my oldest when he was younger-he is now almost 24 & is a fine young man with tons of integrity.)

I have told them that their good reputation is invaluable;

that if they want to be given the benefit of the doubt they had better do every thing in their power to live up to a good reputation;

that it almost always takes a whole lot longer to repair a damaged reputation than it does to damage it--that this might not seem very fair at times but that's the stuff of life.

Unfortunately, as I have said before, experience is not always transferable & some kids have to learn all about this themselves rather than being told all about it..hopefully earlier in their lives than later.

Posted by BPFROM843 on May 15, 2008 at 8 p.m. (Suggest removal)

YALL DRIVE ME CRAZY LIKE YALL ARE ANGELS LIKE YALL NEVER TRIED DRUGS OR DONT HAVE AN UNCLE OR A BROTHER ON DRUGS AND BESIDES THAT YALL SAY HE WAS BAD FOR THE COMMUNITY HE WAS NEVER CONVICTED ON ANY OF THE CHARGES SO HE WASNT GUILTY BUT YALLS EYES SINCE YALL ARE GOD AND YOU CAN PASS JUDGEMENT SINCE YOUR SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO PERFACT AND NEVER BROKE ANY LAW

Posted by luvmydogs59 on May 15, 2008 at 8:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)

As a teenager in the 70s, I was a straight-A student, held down a job, etc. I also smoked pot for a couple of years (quite common in that time frame). It never affected my schooling or my job. By the time I was 19, however, I realized that even something as simple as smoking pot could affect my future in a negative way, and I totally quit. I had acquaintences that did not have that way of thinking and ended up in a bad way. This young man went to work every day, but it was his what I call, extracurricular activities, that did him in. He may have been the nicest person and hard working, but his choice of lifestyle concerning the drugs lead him down a path that he should have realzied, and didn't, might lead to exactly what happened to him. A shame...a total shame.

Unfortunately, there are too many young people nowadays who think they are invincible and this type of thing ends up happening. Regardless, noone deserves to be murdered, whether a person involved in doing drugs, or an innocent person on the street. There are many upstanding citizens with wonderful jobs and families, who go home in the evening and light up a bowl or snort some blow. I can't count how many news stories I've read of doctor's, lawyer's, etc. getting busted for drug use. This makes them no different from anyone else that does drugs, no matter what position in society they hold.

Just remember, there are so-called "dirt bags" from every walk of life.

Posted by ColdBeer on May 15, 2008 at 9:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Posted by luvmydogs59: Just remember, there are so-called "dirt bags" from every walk of life.

VERY true. There are many people that never get arrested, and never mess with drugs. They get married, have kids, work every day and go to church and some can still be dirt bags.

Posted by abitskeptical on May 15, 2008 at 9:42 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Now ColdBeer...just because you think you have no God, you didn't have to get your dig in about the dirt bags who go to church :)

Posted by abitskeptical on May 15, 2008 at 10:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

For the record, I go to church regularly, so I wasn't meaning to slam church goers.

I was merely acknowledging ColdBeer's insight that there are dirt bags who go to church...also for the record, I am not one of them & I don't think anyone even thinks that I am...except maybe lillycollette :)

Posted by realman on May 16, 2008 at 8:34 a.m. (Suggest removal)

If it looks like a duck and walks like a duck and acts like a duck, well, it's probably a duck.

This young man was probably a thug.

He was gunned down for a reason. What that reason was, only his murderer(s) know. It's extremely unlikely that this was a "random" act.

It a shame his culture insists on promoting a lifestyle that devalues life and cherishes death. (And, yes, I'm talking about "Rap" music and the "Gangsta" culture! Just look at his photo! His tough look and general appearance strongly suggests that he was, or wanted to be, a "Gangsta"!)

Posted by donjohn on May 16, 2008 at 3:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Rest in Peace Purple. We love you

Posted by bunnie on May 16, 2008 at 10:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)

I feel this mothers pain, and its not up to anyone to judge her son, god is the judge and let him do that, if you never had to do what you had to do to make ends meet be quiet, but no matter what her son did she loved him, just because he sold drugs don't make him a bad person, he just made bad choices, no one should die like that, satan is misleading the whole earth and we should learn to trust in god, pray to him and do his will....so lets pray for his child and the rest of his family....I'm close to someone on drugs to and i know that was his choice to put it to his mouth I still help him and love him but i know one day god will do away with all things that is bad and unfair......

Posted by mememememe99 on May 17, 2008 at 4:21 p.m. (Suggest removal)

COLDBEER U DNT KNO NOTHING ABOUT JESSE SO HOW DARE U SAY THOSE COMMENTS!!!!

JESSE REST.IN.PEACE