Is McWhorter trying to influence the police investigation of the shooting? Shouldn't law enforcement personnel refrain from commenting about, or giving an opinion on an investigation in another jurisdiction, while the investigation is still in progress?

Just curious.

It really dont matter about your up bringing when you get to be grown you make your own way some make the right choices some make wrong ones clearly this was a wrong one God bless the family

Come on Carolyne, surely Decatur has a better Police Dept than to let the fact that the Blankenships were raised in a Christian home influence an investigation. McWhorter is just stating facts on their personal lives, how is that in any way an attempt to influence the investigation? The fact that both were single and had no children was reported in yesterday's Daily, guess they were attempting to influence the investigation too?

I agree with Carolyne. This crime happened in Decatur, Should stay out of other peoples business. Why did the Decatur Daily call McWhorter? Or did he call them?

how can you sit there and print an article talking about how GOOD of boys they were when they was trying to KILL the other boy!!!! I mean come on dont be blind to the facts they might have came from a good family but that has nothing to do with the fact they tried to kill somebody. somebody that im sure came from a good family and had good raising aswell.....p...

Anybody hanging out at 2 a.m. in an alley off Fourth Avenue SE is up to no good.

ok Larry were you there? They still have not determined whose fault it was. The gun did belong to Josh or Caleb but, the guy that is in the hospital was stabbed? Caleb and Josh were shot so do you think maybe that the other guy got the gun and Josh and Caleb defended themselves with a knife? One of the boys was shot two times in the arm and two times in the ribs self defense does not mean shoot one guy 4 times! also, the guy that survived did not show back up at the sceen until after the police came and determined Josh and Caleb dead! i grew up knowing both guys and do not get me wrong they have been in some trouble before but, they came from an awesome family! I understand that when you grow up you make your own decision's and mistakes but, don't knock their raising or faith you do not know what was really going on as neither do I!!!!! also tim was just commenting about knowing the deceased not trying to influence the investigation!!!!! So i hope God helps Kathy and Jerrald through this difficult time and people leave them alone about their kids!

at 30 and 34, the raising they had at home was over ten or more years ago. i cant think of a mother or father who would still be walking around kids that old, holding their hands, and saying...no no ......hot burn you. just being in an alley at two in the morning, with a gun should tell you they were not at sunday school. drugs seem to trump raising every time.

Linda...... arent you a bit tempermental huh???? Well you know opinions are like yesterdays and everybody has one!!!! I stand STRONG behind every word I said and they may have been raised goood good boys blah blah all that but with you saying all that about them because you know them what gives you the right to put them on a pedestal like they were perfect and put the other guy down...... how do you know he wasnt just as good as the blankenships OR IF NOT BETTER!!!!!!!

i bet ole tim Mcwhorter call the daily. who died and left him in charge? only in lawrecne county can someone appoint themself the boss. he thinks he is going to be sheriff, but it ain't going to happen. let me get this straight, when ole tim interrogate someone on a potential crime, does he go by how good the family is. like if the family is bad does that mean the son or daughter is bad and if the family is good does that mean the son or daughter is good?

Like I said the day this story broke. CRACK KILLS! Don't smoke crack or you will find yourself in an alley in a bad part of some town in the middlle of the night with no money and a gun........willing to risk anything to get CRACK. Everyone jumped my tail for saying that originally but I know what was going on. To people around my way.......it wasn't a secret. I feel sorry for the parents. I hope God and their church family holds them up. Maybe some child can learn from this story. But for that to happen it must be told truthfully or else it's all vain. As for the Decatur Daily..........you kill me with these romanticized relationships after someone has died. There was another story the other day about a father who passed in a wreck. Rather than leave it at that The Daily tried to convince people of how loving the father and son were toward each other. But I know full well just a couple years ago The Daily was reporting a dispute between the two that resulted in the son shooting at......toward......or near his father. Don't tell me it's raining because I know your peeing on me!

i was not trying to be any thing or offened anyone. i was not trying to put the Blankenship's on a pedestal or anything i was just telling what i know about them. I do not know the other guy either. all i know is the parents are hurting and no one was better than the other in this situation. also alton they might have been dealing drugs but, i am not sure that they smoked crack well if they smoked it they did not look like it

Everyone has the right to an opinion and, luckily, we have the right to voice it. America is AMAZING that way. I am glad to live in a country where I can voice my opinion. That being said, please keep in mind that the parents of these young men, or parents of anyone involved in an article, might be reading your post. No matter what your children do, you still love them. Before you post something, anything, stop and think...if it were you, would you want to read all of this about your child? Does your opinion relay anything helpful or useful? If you can live with what you post, then that is fine. But think of it like this, would actually say these things to someone's face? If not, then don't post, it is no different. Your words are still out there and you have still said them.

All GOOD parents raise their children to the best of their ability. The minute a child (no matter his/her age) walks away from mom and/or dad they make choices. Some of these choices are about things we consider minor and some are major, alot of that comes with the age of the child. We can only raise them right, pray for them, live a good example in front of them and then, eventually, they are own their on. Our prayers are with the Blankenships!

I have everyone in my prayers... I know how they feel..... I also have lost someone in my family at a young age and its very hard thing to go through!!! It will never be easy to deal with and IT WILL NEVER GO AWAY!! I dont wish something like this on anyone ever!!!!