Making sense of nonsense
People awakened Sunday morning to the shocking news that 19-year-old Latasha Roundtree died early Sunday morning from gunshot wounds she received Saturday night.
A 2012 graduate of Washington high school, Roundtree had been one of the top players on the girls’ basketball team. She was good enough to have earned a scholarship from William Penn University, although she apparently decided that college was not the right route for her and withdrew earlier this month.
It’s too bad it didn’t work out. Maybe she wouldn’t have found herself in the wrong place at the wrong time had she been in Oskaloosa rather than a house in southwest Cedar Rapids Saturday night. We’ll never know.
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