On 10 December, 2023, a 17-year-old girl who was driving along Interstate 45 near Houston, USA, was shot dead point-blank by a driver whom she had overtaken. Though her heart was fatally injured, she managed to slow down to a halt, for those with her in the car.
Internet links :
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https://www.foxnews.com/us/hero-texas-teen-drove-friends-safety-being-shot-heart-during-road-rage-incident
(2)
https://abc13.com/road-rage-shooting-teen-girl-killed-17-year-old-shot-i45-gulf-freeway/14167001/
Also see :
(3)
https://www.foxnews.com/us/denver-father-dies-protecting-2-year-old-daughter-being-hit-car
(4)
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=china+woman+fell+in+escalator+threw+baby+to+safety
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HOUSTON, WE HAVE A HEROINE…
1st section
Louise Jean Wilson,
Just seventeen,
Seventeen,
The prime of life,
Mow’d down by a murderer…
2nd
Changing lane innocently
Led to a death untimely…
Changing lane was an offence :
“Retribution” was swift,
As swift as the murderous bullets :
Rough and ready slaughter…
3rd
Cold-blood’d murder,
Callously snuffing out an innocent life
In a final, mortal strife…
The guy was prosecutor, judge,
Jury, witness, executioner :
All in a matter of seconds…
4th
With gore the car interior was splash’d :
The heroism worldwide was flash’d…
A broken heart,
A shatter’d heart,
Pumping out the last drops of blood,
Holding the chariot steady,
With a bloodied thoracic cavity;
Struggling to give life to others :
What a heroism,
What a final sacrifice…
5th
She herself was fading,
Fading into history,
But she steer’d the chariot
To a safe halt…
6th
Her legs were going,
Her life was lapsing,
Her heart was slowing,
Her vision was blurr’d,
With sacrifice her heart purr’d :
A murderer gave her demise :
For her mates, tomorrow will rise…
7th
She ensur’d for them a tomorrow :
How will humanity recover from this sorrow…
8th
Instead of enjoying a life,
She was given a eulogy :
What a tragedy…
A life gone too soon,
Snatch’d away pitilessly,
Mindlessly,
Ravenously…
9th
The chariot stopp’d,
Her heart finally stopp’d :
Not until she renew’d life for others,
Even while she fell to terminal shudders…
10th
Bloodied garments,
Dripping with gore :
Holding on to the steering wheel,
Fighting the excruciating pain,
The torture :
Preserving life for others…
11th
A rare lesson from the entrails of America,
The noblest sacrifice,
A move that could only come
From a deep-root’d humane nature :
An act that kick’d in instantly :
A lesson for entire humanity…
12th
The murderer can run :
He hath to run :
He must keep running :
But, he cannot outrun jail,
Nor infinite poetic retribution…
13th and last
Louise Jean Wilson,
A name that hath been immortalis’d,
An act that shalt be sung again and again :
The sacrifice shalt not be forgotten…
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Soman Ragavan
Mauritius (Indian Ocean)
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