and tragedy strikes
So many of my friends assumed that all these very old circle of friends started with Amtgard…nope…we were pretty tight long before…
…when they remember Micah, a brutal slaying…they remember those who committed that vile act…so many blame Amtgard, more specifically a few within the game…they were utterly wrong…place blame at the feet of insobriety and reckless indifference to self-control…the entire circle swam in it…and most of the circlewere barely able to doggie-paddle. When 30-40 people dismiss responsibility with themselves…with each other…collateral damage is a certainty…that collateral damage comes in the form of wounded and ruined lives.
Unfortunately…I never would have thought to have heard what I’ve heard and read what I’ve read.
That very large circle of old friends is again burdened with unfathomable tragedy…as I read about this I am just speechless.
On Monday June 23rd, an old friend I haven’t seen or heard from since Micah left us…this is just crazy…I just cant seem to wrap my brain around it…
…the news says the police saw the children laying in a bed covered in blood and when they kicked in the front door were forced to shoot Scott (he charged them). The blood all over the children was their fathers, not their own…and the cause of death in the children is likely being withheld. A lot of people are drawing conclusions about Scott where information about his children simply isnt forthcoming from the police.
My roomate is dating someone from the gang…she had forgotten that we had the same circles at one time, and was seeming a bit stressed and then realized I might have known Scott. Thats when she just let it rip…”Scott Montgomery commited suicide after killing both his children.” I dont think I’ve been sucker-punched so swiftly…I was kindof speechless. I had to think back on it. Scott?! “Bullshit” I thought…no way he did it. I read a couple articles(links below) and then realized that this was fucked up. I have (still) so many questions. How did the children die? How did the children die? and how the FUCK did the children die? I’ve never thought of Scott as being aggressive…HELL…he used to date one of my best friends back in the RHPS days.
I read another one of the gang’s blogs…this is just…god it’s weird. I think I am just going to do some heavy linking and stop now…I need a drink.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_9679127
http://www5.rockymountainnews.com/news/2008/jun/22/police-man-kills-2-kids-cops-kill-him/
http://preview.denverpost.com/news/ci_9679127
http://almosttuesday.wordpress.com/2008/06/28/in-grief-sort-of/
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/16680807/detail.html
So…. Tony…. why DID they kill Micah …. ?
Do what the rest of us have…keep guessing. Everyone and everything was moving far too fast…furious…crazy.
No one will ever be able to justify the actions of anyone leading up to Micah’s murder. He and I had been good friends for nearly a decade already when he died. If you really want to chew on something…chew on this.
I was one of the people that introduced him to his murderers.
So whatever you hoped to gain from your tactless inquiry doesn’t mean much to me.
Happy journeys.
-Tony
I hoped to gain an answer. I know what was said at court, i know the excuse in the statement. I knew his murderers too, well, one of them – and i knew you.
i just wanted to know if you knew the real reason….if there is one… since you’re from a slightly different crowd…
Micah and Scott are both tragedies … horrible horrible tragedies…. the ‘gang’ is not a group anymore… there have been quite a few other tragedies as well, as is expected when you get a mish mash of beautiful but misfits of society that come together via computers, parties/addictions, and amptguard, etc. Most of us are just lost…. as Scott was… apparently… i hadn’t talked to him in a while since he moved to Colorado, he was ‘doing the family thing’ he ‘got out’ he was one of the ‘lucky ones’ to ‘escape Dallas’. He ‘cleaned up his life’ – makes ya go ‘hrmmm…’
I don’t know of a stronger love-hate relationship than that between Richard and Micah. As free a thinker as he was, Micah had some rules about life in general that often put him at odds with the way the rest of the world wanted things to happen. When Richard and Micah started hanging out, the circle Micah and I had met through was already thinning and reforming to include a good amount of the group that were friends before the Green Dragons were brought into existence. Richard and Micah weren’t exactly inseparable, but despite so many malicious acts towards each other…well…better to say after doing so many things you simply do not do to your friends, it seriously seemed like Richard held an almost fascinating amount of anger towards Micah. Not on the outside…they were friends, they laughed, got high, fought…but it always seemed like Richard was pissed at Micah for something. Roy was just an accomplice. In the state that Rich and Roy were in. Richard could have told Roy that Micah was a anti-christ and Roy would have accepted it for truth….such was their relationship. Richard also had a lot to fear from Micah. Richard’s relationship with Mary and Scooter. Details revolving around the drug usage, Richard’s *jobs*…a lot Richard hated about himself Micah held in the palm of his hand.
It’s my understanding that the altercation started when Richard and Roy were caught in Micah’s place looking for drugs. This undoubtedly tripped a pretty bad situation as Rich and Roy were loaded 24/7 those days. I am astounded that it did happen and the degree to which that tragedy was taken, but as far as whether or not it is was within the scope of Richard’s mental status…that was never in doubt.
Hope that helps. I honestly don’t like talking about it in too much detail. A daughter lost her father, a band of brothers lost their leader, and I lost my faith in an entire circle of friends permanently. Trying to find more closure than that usually leaves me in a less-than-desirable mental state.
Regarding Scott…it was always a very calm a serene picture. I’d seen him steaming mad before, and even flipped out on him once where I was the one everyone needed to worry about…he stayed calm and didn’t let things escalate. I can push anyone’s button. I’d pushed his, got nothing for the attempt. And…he stayed a more tolerable distance from whoever it was I was protecting…don’t remember…but I do know it was a girl and he was making a move…anyhow. 😉 Bottom line is I never would have thought. Scott’s brother lived across down the hall from me for some time and I’d get updates infrequently through him. But what happened with Scott? No something I coul have ever predicted.