Shooting of Mormon missionaries in Pennsylvania

[snowman]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

I really do appriciate constructive criticism like that. We can always learm from our peers right?>

absalootlie!

[CreepingDeath]

Originally Posted by DavidMn

All I heardd about this this morning oin the news was a quick blurb about how 2 mormon missonaries were shot while going door to door. I didnt hear if either of them died, but whatever happened this made me wanna gag.

I heard one of them died, while the other is in the hospital.

What happend to them is just disgusting. My heart goes out to their familes.

[CelticGypsy]

Here is more information if anyone is interested: This was from the Deseret News in Salt Lake City, UT. Just terrible news that someone would do this to innocent people.



2 elders shot on mission in Virginia

Associated Press

CHESAPEAKE, Va. — An LDS missionary going door-to-door was fatally shot and a fellow missionary was wounded by an assailant who fled, police said.
The attacks happened just after 6 p.m. Monday in the Deep Creek area of the city, police said, when a man approached the two, shot them and ran away.
One of the missionaries ran to a nearby nursing home seeking help, police said.
The missionaries were identified by church spokesmen Dale Bills and Michael Purdy as Morgan Young, 21, of Bountiful, and Joshua Heidbrink of Greeley, Colo. Chesapeake police said he is 19.
They were taken to Sentara Norfolk General Hospital, where Young later died, spokeswoman Cheri Hinshelwood said. Heidbrink was upgraded to good condition Tuesday.
Police described the gunman as a black male about 5-foot-10, wearing a black hooded sweatshirt and denim jeans.
"This is close to home," said Bobby Gatling, who said he has lived on the block for two years. "Nothing like this has ever happened here before."
Parents of both missionaries planned to travel to Virginia.
Winslow Young, the grandfather of Morgan Young, said a church official visited the family in Bountiful on Monday night to inform them of the crime and then accompanied them to the airport.
Morgan Young was a graduate of Bountiful High School, where he excelled in computer science. He had spent nearly two years in Virginia on a mission for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. He was due to return home in March and planned to study computer science at Brigham Young University.
"He was a very outgoing young man and he was as excited as could be to be going on his mission," said Winslow Young, of Centerville, Utah.
The family was in regular contact with Young, who never expressed any concerns about his safety, his grandfather said. He described his grandson as easygoing and happy in his work for the church, and as a leader for the younger children in his extended family.
"Whenever we had the family together, the other grandchildren would be climbing all over him," he said.
Young was the oldest of four children.

[DavidMn]

For the Record, my apoligies for not getting Virginia right. sorry about that.