Post by Scumhunter on Jul 5, 2019 1:47:11 GMT -5
(Above photo credit: Project: Cold Case website)
From The Brunswick News (2013 article):
Bobbie Lane has spent many late nights listening to a police radio scanner at her home in Sterling, wondering if she would ever hear her son Richard's name.
Early Friday morning, her nightmare came true.
As she listened to police chatter about a then-unidentified 25-year-old man who had been fatally shot multiple times at Mary Ross Waterfront Park in Brunswick, Lane thought about her son, and his history of drug abuse, and prayed he was not involved.
But at around 4:45 a.m. Friday, Bobbie Lane got the knock on her door that no parent would ever want to answer.
"The whole time I heard it on the scanner, and it was my baby," Lane said through her tears Wednesday, a day after Richard Lane's funeral.
Brunswick detectives have said they have a couple of persons of interest in their investigation of Lane's murder, but have made no arrests.
Although police have not said Lane's death was drug-related, Bobbie Lane said she feels strongly that drugs were a factor.
"He was not always a good kid. But he was not always bad, either," Lane said, acknowledging that Richard Lane had struggled several years with drug addiction. "Either way, he didn't deserve this."
Bobbie Lane described her son as a happy-go-lucky person who could make friends with anybody, but admitted freely that he had his problems. Still, though, in no way was his murder a proper punishment for his transgressions, she said.
Now, she and her family are praying that police can make an arrest soon, so they can begin to heal after what has been a week filled with questions about what happened at a deserted city park.
Police have said one witness saw a light-colored vehicle leave the crime scene, but have released little else about the investigation.
"Someone out there knows what happened," Lane said. "Hopefully, someone out there has a heart (and will come forward with what they know)."
She is asking anyone who may know who killed her son, and why, to contact police immediately.
But Lane's desire for justice is not just because the victim was the son she called Richie.
"If Richie had been the one who did this, I would want him to be punished for it, too," she said.
She hopes her son's story can be a cautionary tale for others with family members who struggle with addictions.
"Drugs are a dead-end street any way you look at it," Lane said. "As hard as this is right now, I hope some good can come from it. This is a hurt I wouldn't ever wish on anybody."
Neither would Oliver Goodloe of Fathers Against Drugs, a grassroots anti-drug crusade he founded at 1300 Gloucester St., Brunswick.
Goodloe, who was at the Lane house on Wednesday, knows the family well, because Richard Lane's sister, Marion Cason, works with him.
He says the answer to what has become a pervasive drug problem is getting the community involved to stop it.
"On (Friday), it was (Bobbie's) child. Tomorrow it could be someone else's," Goodloe said. "(Drug involvement) has taken a young man's life. It shows how bad the problem is."
It will take unity throughout the community to fight drugs, he said. Police can only do so much, he added.
Bobbie Lane knows firsthand how hard it can be to keep family members from straying, and agrees there is strength in numbers.
Now, she is left wondering if there was more she could have done to prevent her son's problems. Her advice to others struggling with family members taking drugs is simple and straightforward:
"Don't be an enabler. Whatever you do, don't be an enabler," she said as she lowered her head and began to cry again.
thebrunswicknews.com/news/local_news/mother-of-murder-victim-grieves-for-her-son/article_a9828a25-0b18-544a-b4c3-6f33800b5dee.html
Thoughts? I want to stress that the above article is from 2013 so some details may now be outdated. However, I still wanted to make a thread here since as of this posting date (July 5th, 2019), Richard (Richie) Lane's case is still listed as an unsolved homicide on the Project: Cold Case website: database.projectcoldcase.org/?name=lane&gender=&race=&age=&city=&state=Georgia&zip=&county=&weapon=&offense=&status=&year=&reported_min=&reported_max=&more=
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