A mother's quest for justice
It's late, but I didn't want to let the day escape without directing your attention to Rick's excellent story on Rebecca Ramirez's long-simmering anger over the alleged murder of her daughter. He crafts the beginning with a compelling hook that snared me and kept me for the entire story:
SHERMAN OAKS - Rebecca Ramirez lives with anger. You can see it burned into her eyes, hear it in the tension in her voice - it consumes her.
And for good reason.
In the year since fugitive David Allan Weir was accused of shooting Ramirez's daughter, the mother of four has used that anger to fuel a relentless quest to find the accused killer.
It has spurred her to canvass cities and towns near San Diego for any traces of Weir, charged with murder in the shooting of his 21-year-old girlfriend, Ramirez's beloved daughter Victoria. It has given her the courage to cross into Mexico and question the federales.
"He's going to pay for what he did to my daughter," Ramirez said. "All she did was love him."
Now that, dear readers, is good writing. Our condolences go to Ms. Ramirez along with our wishes that Victoria's killer will be brought to justice soon.
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