2008 Taco Bell Murder: A Personal Reflection

I was working at the Pizza Hut next door around the time of a tragic murder that took place at the Taco Bell in 2008. Na’lisha Gravely was murdered in cold blood by her then boyfriend. She ran in screaming “Help, he’s going to kill me” and jumped over a counter to hide in a mop closet. Her murderer came in with a gun and shot her in a busy restaurant because she ran away from him during an argument. It is just a crazy story I think about every time I go out there.

So on this day I was doing my usual but Spark was kind of dead so I switched to Door Dash. I like doing EBT (earn by time) in my area because no one has money to tip they are getting the stuff delivered because they don’t have a car, and public transit is nothing to speak of around here. Pretty quickly I got an order to the Patrick Street Taco Bell going across the river to one of the hotel/motel deals off the Montrose exit. I was thinking about that story so I looked it up.

Now for the why… Life is short, sometimes some crazy asshole will try to take you out because you hurt his ego. Usually that is not the case though, it is best not to live life expecting that. However, when things like this happens it reminds us of the importance of raising our boys to treat girls with respect and raise our girls to leave a man that doesn’t respect her right away. Na’Lisha did nothing wrong here so I don’t want it implied that she should have left sooner or anything like that. Take care of each other and help raise the children right… they will be taking care of us one day!

Thank you for riding with me!

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