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How many times have y'all read a crime report, and the perp's Mother says "he was such a good Christian boy........" link to story Hazel Yoachum remained in disbelief Tuesday after the 4 a.m. knock on her door.
It was the police letting her know her son � a 20-year-old she figured to be a good kid � was dead from police gunfire.
Mark Stephen Yoachum Jr. was identified as a suspect in an armed robbery hours before at the Family Dollar store on Chaffee Point Boulevard in Jacksonville�s Westside. Police said he wore a mask, menaced customers with a gun, then made a break for it in a stolen car.
Chief John Hartley said Yoachum crashed the car in a ditch on Bulls Bay Highway. He ran amid a full-blown search as police helicopters and dogs tracked him to the 8200 block of Oregon Street, where he was shot and killed.
Police said Yoachum fired at officers and killed a police dog, a nearly five-year veteran named Sarge, during an exchange of gunfire.
Hartley said it was not clear who fired the first shot.
Hazel Yoachum said she wants answers.
�We could not believe what we had heard, that he was involved in anything like that,� she said. �It was definitely not the person we knew. We don�t know what happened. We were always a close family, a loving family and a church-going family.�
Hazel Yoachum said her son, who was known to many by his middle name, Stephen, was home-schooled and attended Promise Land Baptist Church on Blair Road.
He did odd jobs and landscaping to get by, but she said she�s stunned to think he�d ever resort to crime. Duval County court records show nothing more serious than traffic tickets, but Florida Department of Law Enforcement records show Yoachum registered as a felon in Jacksonville in April 2009. He had to do so because of a 2008 burglary charge in Georgia, police said.
�The boy we knew was totally different,� Yoachum said.
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It's a defense mechanism, what would you expect them to say, "my boy is such a punk, we knew it was only a matter of time?".
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After reading many posts on this site alone and the number of people in denial this is easy to believe.
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You'd expect them to know?
There are a lot of things my parents were the last to know, things my mom went to her grave not knowing and likely my dad will too. Better for them, better for me.
And I was not a "bad" kid. Just interpreted the rules as I felt appropriate.
It'd be more interesting to hear what siblings say. They tend to be a lot more 'in the know'.
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You'd expect them to know?
There are a lot of things my parents were the last to know, things my mom went to her grave not knowing and likely my dad will too. Better for them, better for me.
And I was not a "bad" kid. Just interpreted the rules as I felt appropriate.
It'd be more interesting to hear what siblings say. They tend to be a lot more 'in the know'.
Tom Hell my mom still thinks I was a good kid...thank God the old man could see through it.
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A mother's love is blind. Well, usually!
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i about ruptured a kidney laughing on my 16th birthday when my loving grandma said to me... "sweet 16 and never been kissed?" i know i wasnt married and all, but that struck me as pretty funny considering what i got for my birthday from my girlfriend... 
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A mother's love is blind. Well, usually! Obviously in your case, but we understand.
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That's a damned shame about the dog.
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Yes mothers are really that stupid!
I have called Mothers in the middle of the night to tell them that I chased "Little Johnny" all through the city on foot just to tackle him and have a pistol and a bag of dope fly out of his waistband...
The Mothers response..."It couldn't have been his!"
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Many children have a Jekyll and Hyde personality. My brother was like that, at home he was a pretty good kid away from home, look out.
Don't vote knothead, it only encourages them. Anonymous
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Aren't most boys like that?
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I think a lot of kids go thru a wild side in late teens and early 20's, at least a lot I knew did and I did myself.
it sure wasn't for lack of tryin by my folks to instill right and wrong. I just flat wanted to do some wrong and did.
my guess is as a few others have related here, a lot of parents of good folks on the 'fire would be surprised if they knew what activities some of you did as a late teen early adult.
I'm pretty certain when we sing our anthem and mention the land of the free, the original intent didn't mean cell phones, food stamps and birth control.
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Aren't most boys like that? I don't know. I wasn't like that.
Don't vote knothead, it only encourages them. Anonymous
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Wooops
Last edited by Monkey_Joe; 12/28/10.
Have a good day man. In honor of personal freedom and the open squirrel season, I think I'll go put a hole through dinner's head.
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Whats whoops mean? Anything in particular?
Don't vote knothead, it only encourages them. Anonymous
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A mother's love is blind. Well, usually! Obviously in your case, but we understand.
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Seeing as many mothers today do little more than hatch an egg I'm not suprised that they would be so fooled.
However I would like to hear some one once say the little turd had it coming.
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How many times have y'all read a crime report, and the perp's Mother says "he was such a good Christian boy.... Zillions..
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