A lesson in being judgmental

I learned a very valuable lesson about being judgmental this week. I had always believed that when I read about a person being involved in a street fight that they were either involved in drugs or weapons, had started the fight or otherwise deserved to be in the altercation.

Well, all that was dispelled when I learned that a young friend of mine was not only involved in a fight but was killed in it on Thanksgiving Day here in Fallbrook.

Nicholas Raymundo was a very helpful, happy, honest, churchgoing, hardworking 23-year-old father of two who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time...