Senseless... anger is senseless...
A good friend of mine from Michigan called to tell me a friend has been killed. A good man. A family man with four children and a loving wife. He was 33 years young. All because someone was angry.
If we feel angry, we need to take a breath and look inside. Usually, the things that make us angry are things that have to do what's inside of us -- not anyone else. Look inside and find out why you act the way you do. Then change. No excuses.
Work on yourself and let others live their own lives and walk their own paths. You are in control of your own world. Don't be a victim. Stop feeling upset with others and figure out why you are angry within your core.
Don't try to control anyone else's life... no one has that right.
Not this guy with the gun. Not you with your anger.
To Troy... rest in peace...
To Troy's family... my heart goes out to you...
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Realtor shot 'execution style' by client in office
Posted: July 1, 2008 09:40 AM
Updated: July 1, 2008 10:17 PM
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By Dee Morrison and Tony Tagli
MUSKEGON, Mich. (WOOD) -- A man, allegedly upset over a real estate transaction, shot a realtor in the head at the realtor's office Tuesday morning.
Robert Johnson, 73, walked into Nexes Realty at 880 Broadway in Muskegon and asked for the realtor, Troy VanderStelt, by name. He went into a conference room and waited.
"It appears this was essentially an execution-style murder in the conference room," Muskegon County Prosecutor Tony Tague said. "He went over there with a handgun, asked specifically for this real estate agent, went into a conference room and within minutes fired a shot at point blank range into the side of the victim's head."
Johnson ran from the office and went to his ex-son-in-law's home on Leif Street in nearby Norton Shores. There, he turned over the gun and surrendered to police.
"You could hear him saying, 'Come out with your hands up.' And they were putting their vests on, their bulletproof vests, and coming out with their guns," said neighbor Christie Hall. "Then they brought him out. And he came out without any real fight. They had him handcuffed."
Tague said Johnson bought a home from VanderStelt. 24 Hour News 8 looked at tax records from the city of Roosevelt Park where the home in question is located. They state Johnson bought the home for $143,000 in 2005. Johnson decided to sell that home and went to a different realtor. The second realtor told Johnson that, in these tough economic times, the home wasn't worth what he paid for it. The home is now listed for $139,900.
Johnson allegedly felt VanderStelt took advantage of him financially and went to the realty office and shot him. According to the Muskegon County clerk's office, Johnson did not possess a permit to carry a weapon.
Tague said this is the first murder in Muskegon County this year. He is working on charging Johnson with first-degree premeditated murder. "It appears he premeditated this murder that he was thinking about it for a lengthy period of time," said Tague.
VanderStelt's pastor, Russell Carlson, said VanderStelt was only supposed to be at work for a few minutes Tuesday. He was planning to take his family on vacation.
VanderStelt, 34, is described as brain dead. He leaves behind his wife, a 16-year-old stepson, a 14-year-old stepdaughter, a 2-year-old son and an 18-month-old daughter. His family is working to donate his organs.
VanderStelt's father was a longtime principal of Mona Shores High School.
Carlson, of Forest Park Covenant Church, said relatives are, of course, struggling to cope with their loss. Those who knew VanderStelt describe him as a good and proud father, a positive and good man, and a good Christian who volunteered at his church.
24 Hour News 8 spoke with a woman who lives across the street from Johnson and knows the VanderStelt family. She said she was saddened and shocked by the way prosecutors describe what happened between her neighbor and her friend.
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