Go, Read: The Murder Of Jeffrey Babbitt

The New York Times has a short, insightful and respectful write-up here about the death of a 62-year-old retired man named Jeffrey Babbitt, who was struck in New York City in a crime that may have bizarre and fairly arbitrarily applied racial motivations. The general sense of media reports I've seen have the suspect Lashawn Marten declaring a desire to assault the next white man he saw and then doing so, in the middle of the afternoon near a crowded park. That person apparently also attacked the people that came to help Babbitt and was arrested and has been charged. Babbitt hit his head on the sidewalk, went into a coma, and never recovered.

Babbitt was a comics and fantasy fan well-known to the NYC retailer Forbidden Planet near where the incident took place -- new comics Wednesday -- as well as to to pros that met him either on tour through Forbidden Planet or who signed at shows that Babbitt attended. The deceased took care of his aged mother, and there may be an effort on the part of the store and the community of people that visit that store and that might have known Babbitt to raise some money for his mother.
 
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