"We just spent a lot of time talking, getting to know one another, and laughing and joking around. He was a very animated person like that. He wasn’t down there as a rioter or a looter Why was he there? I have no answer. I ask myself that question every day. I did explain to him that things had gotten bad the last few days because he was not in town and did tell him explicitly not to go downtown. There was the mark where Joe had been laying. I put my hand in it, and my hand was wet with his blood and that’s when, again, I collapsed on the ground."