There is something seriously wrong in this country, that teenagers routinely kill people who tell them not to misbehave.AYLMER, Que. — As family members, friends, military brass and soccer buddies gathered in Aylmer on Wednesday for the funeral mass for Paul Hines, the 19-year-old Pontiac man originally charged with assaulting him was arrested on an upgraded charge of manslaughter.
An overflow crowd at St. Mark the Evangelist Catholic Church paid tribute to the 57-year-old Aylmer man who died doing the right thing.
Hines, a retired public servant with National Defence, died after he was badly beaten in an altercation last month outside an Aylmer grocery store.
Hines had witnessed two young men stealing a pumpkin from an outdoor display and told them to return it. Hines suffered serious injuries in the altercation and was in a coma before he died about a week later.
And then the teenagers are only charged with manslaughter?! You kill someone in Canada while committing a crime, all you get is a few years in jail.
Something is horribly wrong.