The Times-Dispatch is reporting the arrest of Kent Peace, who has been robbing Southwood Apartment residents and perhaps others by riding up on a bicycle and brandishing a gun. He is involved in as many as seven robberies. Fortunately, Kent never pulled the trigger.

For those of you who recall the story I wrote on Howard Scott, who was involved in the Byrd Park murder of Tyler Binstead, this story is so similar it’s disturbing. I knew Kent, as well as I knew Howard. Kent certainly had a lot more going for him than Howard, but he had all the signs of an angry, apathetic, young man just like Howard.  I never imagined Kent becoming a crook. I didn’t think of Howard as becoming one either, but I could see they were on the road to a bad life.

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