If I Can't Have You, No One Can by Don Lasseter

Author:Don Lasseter [Lasseter, Don]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Published: 2014-08-30T04:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 16

It Was Her Fault

A welcome telephone call came to the Placentia Police Department night shift watch commander at 1:00 A.M., Sunday, April 20. A Santa Ana PD dispatcher informed him that a 1997 black Nissan Sentra, wanted in a homicide case, had been towed from a strip mall parking lot, near a budget market, and stored in a police impound lot.

A quick check showed the vehicle was owned by Richard Namey’s sister. He had been driving it on the day Sarah Rodriquez and Matt Corbett were shot, and he had abandoned it in the parking lot, where he had met Alberto Zavala, carjacked his red van, and sped away.

According to three letters seized by police in Namey’s apartment, he had not planned to survive when he left his mother’s home in the Nissan on that deadly Wednesday. The first letter was addressed to Namey’s mother. In it, he acknowledged being nothing but trouble to her, expressed love for his daughter, and said she would be better off living without him. Asking his mother not to be sad, he said he would finally be at peace. He had never been happy, he noted, and speculated that he never would be in this world, which he hated. The letter ended with an expression of perpetual love for her, no matter where he wound up.

Letter number two, addressed to Namey’s daughter, also affirmed his love while telling the child that she should not bear any fault for his actions. In a strange comment to a young girl, Namey said that he was far from perfect, and was “all fuct [sic] up” in the head, which made him do strange things. He hoped she would be happier living with her grandmother, he said, and reminded her that when he was gone, he still would be watching her from the sky. With a caution never to “do drugs,” or be negatively influenced by her friends, and to always do the “write” thing, Namey signed off with another expression of love.

The third letter, to Namey’s sister, apologized for the way he had treated her. He had just wanted to give her his love and protection. Since she was now a woman, he said, she could probably take better care of herself than he could of himself. Namey repeated his assertion of being “fuct up” in the head, and admitted being a terrible brother, son, and father. Since he doubted his ability to improve, he had decided to go away forever. With an appeal for her to help his daughter grow up, Namey ended with a promise that if he found the ability, in the afterlife, to make things better for his family, he would do it with love.

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