Victims’ friends still uneasy 2 months after fatal shooting
JACKSON, Tenn. — Two months after a former Lane college student is gunned down at his front door, friends said they are still haunted by the sounds of gun fire in the middle of the night. “I wake up sometimes, two or three in the morning, from it. Cause it kinda bothered me. It still kinda bothering me,” Stanley Richardson said. Richardson and Robert Beasley, the 22-year-old gunned down at his front door, met during their dorm days at Lane College. “He always knew how to make you smile,” he said. Richardson said he remembers hearing the gun shots and waking up to the crime scene. “That was kinda hard to take in, ’cause I never witnessed anything like that,” he said. Beasley’s death still makes Richardson feel uneasy about living off campus. Living one building over from Beasley, Danny Gardner said college students should feel nervous about leaving campus. “‘Cause somebody got shot. Could probably happen to them,” Gardner said. Not everyone agrees. Lane College student Brian Simmons said he has never felt unsafe off campus. “It’s kinda different when you stay off campus, ’cause you stay and have a lot more freedom to do what you want to do, but other than that, it’s pretty safe,” he said. Police told us they have no new updates in the July shooting and have not made any arrests. Anyone with information that might help with this homicide investigation is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 731-424- TIPS (8477). All information is anonymous, and you could be eligible for a cash reward.
