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Getting Away With Murder&amp;nbsp;

by Tymme Mitchell


Tymme tells her chilling story of the events that lead up to Reggie&#39;s death.




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Last week I received an interesting message on my Facebook messenger. It was from our next door neighbor on New Street in Champaign, Illinois, and it was in regards to that horrible day I and my 4 siblings were viciously attacked on our property. 

Remarkably the message was from the youngest member of the family who had to be 5 or 6 when it all happened.  
David Stewart had popped in to say </atom:summary><link>http://valsank.blogspot.com/2018/09/reggies-story-continues.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (www.vascts.com)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3v-oX7wrx-_2crsdR13AeQ-0ugxjCMuLiO1MuJCx3KNTw5uEa1rxnJqpa5qKFIuCr2BlV8O3FihW0W2cq4TfooA7I5DU5yidA55ZBnE2SkihRSHm1t0wmrt-Ry8xL4MSNcj_qzA/s72-c/410779_10151102120720230_1050887012_o.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>11</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200037.post-4058496437002663580</guid><pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2018 20:38:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-10-18T22:52:00.314-07:00</atom:updated><title>In Memory of Reginald Allen Sankey</title><atom:summary type="text">










 Reggie at Edison Jr. High School Champaign, Il

 One of his last photos

Read the account leading up to the murder of Reggie Sankey&amp;nbsp;

written by Tymme Mitchell, our mother.

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Prettiest Baby Ever&amp;nbsp;







Classic Reggie





Brothers Larry &amp;amp; Reggie in line to see Santa.






All 5 of us!

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Halo by Valsank









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Panhandler supplements disability income with students&#39; spare change

Photo by: Vernon Jones/University of Illinois 

Champaign-Urbana&#39;s David Sankey sits on the sidewalk outside a Daniel Street restaurant in February. He says he has panhandled from that Campustown location for years.

Sun, 04/11/2010 - 8:50am 
The News-Gazette

CHAMPAIGN – David Sankey swallows </atom:summary><link>http://valsank.blogspot.com/2010/04/he-aint-heavy-hes-my-brother-panhandler.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (www.vascts.com)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAZPn6L0dvxXvW47OwYhn8EChgIQ6bmOVgp8C0z6htIk9EyywmJ5LT7WZKaReecVPlmqDWHubb-oKZhMAXY-4Cak5UvUpePRneStQ431z0RYgsUgVqV6DXCDM6m34fZ66jtpfcbw/s72-c/DavidSankey.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200037.post-5170212505695242882</guid><pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:15:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-09-19T11:30:45.389-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">goodbye</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">grandmother</category><title></title><atom:summary type="text">IN LOVING MEMORY, of my grandmother Mary Humphreys. She was my shero. She was a model grandmother, a woman with class. Soft-spoken, wise, strong. A teacher and a role model. 
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My Family Nightmare: Matthews&#39; Story


I am Valorie Sankey of Wichita Falls, TX, a mother of three grown boys. On Sept. 27, 2009, I got the kind of call every mother dreads. My son&#39;s girlfriend called from California to tell me that my son had gone missing for several days and was finally found in a park. He was naked and nearly blinded by his own hand. I was stunned, unable to accept what I was</atom:summary><link>http://valsank.blogspot.com/2009/11/my-family-nightmare-matthew-story.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (www.vascts.com)</author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8GNDI_4sQ-19ZuW7a30L9b1HQgIND9UJYgh6z5Ei7bJcnT1rh43jVhd3Get_beza5HRn379nQ0KBCLxAYaLFsERKdES6qetj4mKnVVg4a48G11q_GE9U5sBto5QMh_DdHE3flFg/s72-c/MeAndDaBoyz1.jpg" height="72" width="72"/><thr:total>0</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200037.post-8775279545859584397</guid><pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 09:25:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2018-09-19T11:30:45.597-07:00</atom:updated><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">laugh</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">laughing</category><category domain="http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#">laughter</category><title></title><atom:summary type="text">Beware!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LAUGHTER IS CONTAGIOUS!I love to laugh. I am always laughing about something. O but today!, I learned the meaning of &quot;Split my side laughing, or &quot;die laughing&quot;.I laughed so hard, I literally could not breathe, my stomach hurt so bad and I could not stop.I was out shopping with my mom, my sister and a friend of ours. We were getting in the car after a full day, </atom:summary><link>http://valsank.blogspot.com/2009/05/beware-laughter-is-contagious-i-love-to.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (www.vascts.com)</author><thr:total>2</thr:total></item><item><guid isPermaLink="false">tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6200037.post-5777530838494919660</guid><pubDate>Sat, 16 May 2009 19:37:00 +0000</pubDate><atom:updated>2009-05-16T12:37:50.753-07:00</atom:updated><title></title><atom:summary type="text">Lupus Lupus Go Away!To all who fight lupus (the wolf)Lupus Lupus Go Away,Leave my body right away.My cells obey my commands, My life is in my God&#39;s hand.No longer will you lurk here,No longer are you my fear.My cells are strong and wellLook at me, can&#39;t you tell?It&#39;s time to say goodbye to you,It is time to bid you adue.Never ever to see you again, Remember, my life is in my Gods hand.Valorie </atom:summary><link>http://valsank.blogspot.com/2009/05/lupus-lupus-go-away-to-all-who-fight.html</link><author>noreply@blogger.com (www.vascts.com)</author><thr:total>0</thr:total></item></channel></rss>