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Shoots neighbor on Lone Jack Road in Encinitas
I am so sorry for your loss. It is a senseless tragedy Why is the cockroach still caged in Vista and not in a state prison? Why has the trial taken so long to start? It has been almost a year in an open and shut case. Cockroach needs to be sent off to his permanent home. Justice will be served there, but delay is no justice and just adds to the senselessness of it all for the family.— February 23, 2014 8:59 a.m.
Shoots neighbor on Lone Jack Road in Encinitas
My question for Mr. Vilkin is simply this: was it worth it? Mr. Vilkin has sat like a caged animal in a cell since March 28th. From the moment he pulled the trigger (the first time) his life has changed forever, seemingly for the worse. Within moments he was in police custody, and since being taken to jai later that day, has been in a jail cell. He has missed out on the months of April through now August, all of summer, all but a couple of weeks of spring, and for what? Trimming trees or bushes. Now those trees and bushes are growing unabated, and whether they need trimming or not, Mr. Vilkin is not there to do anything about it. And there is a good chance he will never be able to step onto that property to cut his trees or bushes ever again. Plus, at a minimum, his actions have exposed him to the risk of being convicted of murder, of permanently losing his freedom, and risking all his assets, including this piece of property he apparently treasured. He has been vilified to the point where even if he should ever walk free, beat the rap, or whatever, he will have this black cloud of embarrassment hanging over his head wherever he goes. Vilkin had so many other choices that day, and he chose the worst possible choice. He has to be thinking by now, as he has wasted away so many months in a hole, with the awareness that this may very well be how he spends the rest of his life, that maybe it wasn't such a good idea to bring that gun to the tree trimming party and pull the trigger on an unarmed man. Also, I don't like the way he tries to blame the victim, who has apparently never been able to defend himself in this unprovoked attack--not the day the victim lost his life, nor even afterwards, as Vilkin tries to make the victim the predator. The victim was not able to defend himself against Vilkin's gun that day, nor is he alive to be able to defend these obviously bogus claims of self defense. I see a pattern there, and it is one where Vilkin is the predator bully, and a coward too.— August 22, 2013 11:22 p.m.