Once again a mother and children and family and friends are mourning a useless death, this time on the West End where a businessman was gunned down in a robbery.
Darryl Terry had opened his Allendale shop less than two months ago in Sheraden in the West End when a robber entered. In an attempt to get away, leaving the robber with the money and whatever else he wanted, Terry ran out the doo. However, the robber followed and gunned him down, not only shooting him, but shooting him multiple times after he was down.
This brings several questions to mind. How much money could have possibly been in the register? Small stores do well, but not to the point where they are worth robbing. Yet one of the biggest reasons stores don’t locate in Black communities is just that, robberies.
I had a friend who took over a community store from her father. Between her, her mother, her sister, and some community people, the store served the community. Sure the prices were high, and they only sold certain items, but they got constant business. Bottom line, they were a service to the community as most of these small stores are. But she had to close her doors because of a number of robberies. Her fear was that one day one of those fools would pull the trigger, and her mother, her sister, or one of the community people she employed would be dead. Was it worth it? She said no and closed the doors, leaving some community people who had fallen on hard times without a job, and a community without a convenient store. And we ask why don’t Black folks have anything?
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