Let me clarify my conclusion (AND IF THESE GUYS WOULD HAVE BEEN INCARCERATED FOR THEIR PREVIOUS CRIMES THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE MET ON THAT STREET THAT NIGHT AND THEY COULD HAVE BOTH BEEN ALIVE AND SAVED US 25 TO LIFE IN FURTHER INCARCERATION EXPENSES, NOT TO MENTION THE LOSS OF HUMANITY.) While I am "strict" on crime, my postion is that if crime were were approached with shympathy towards the criminal I would hope we could use their incarceration to rehabilitate them. Mental/emotional counciling, job/trade training in my humble opinion should take priority over punishment. My position is hit them hard and hit them quick before the alternative becomes attractive. I can understand giving a person a chance, but just one chance. Then it is time to institutionalize change, thorough and complete rehabilitation. It can save more than just a person, it can save a life, a human being. However, there are times when you have to read the writing on the wall as they say and irradicate the problem for the betterment of society as a whole. In those cases there is no good reason to prolong an unrealistic or unreasonable hope.

Think we should remember these KIDS both have people that are hurting because the choices they made!!! If they were both locked up as they should have been we would just have two other names in the headlines.

Postings ... lol .. It proves you don't know how to navigate the net .. or to lazy to do so! ...

A million dollar bond is okay. We all know that he can't post it. Might as well be $5 million. He probably doesn't have a pot to p in nor a window to throw it out of as the old saying goes. What ever his reason, it isn't good enough to kill someone. He needs to be put to death just like he did that young man -- whatever his reason. Lock him up until such time as he can be dead -- the quicker the better. And really I don't want to hear about his momma mistreating him, or his daddy being gone from the home or his uncle or cousin abusing him. That's crap.....

@ Economystic - I also appreciate your postings. Lets everyone else see that these thugs are not the wonderful up-standing members of society that their friends/family members will post they are. Thanks.

Economystic, thanks for posting court records. It proves our assumptions are correct!

Economystic .. there is no need for you to post Clerk of court records ... when we can clearly access that information ourselves... Stop being so self-serving ... you didn't find it first .... Geesh! (That's probably why you don't use your real name.... clerk of court records about yourself!) ....

It SHOULD be standard for murder, but some of the bonds seen lately have been a joke - that is why I wondered in this jackwads' case if there was something else to jack it up to almost reasonable for a murderer....uh, 'alleged' murderer

@Ammys2Cuties - that's standard for murder. Also the shooter had a warrant out since May for trafficking cocaine and heroin and possession

23 YEAR OLD DERDEN STEVEN /07/CRB/8265 DERDEN STEVEN /07/TRD/12427 DERDEN STEVEN /08/CRB/45486 DERDEN STEVEN /09/CRB/20112 DERDEN STEVEN /11/CRA/16093 DERDEN STEVEN /11/CRB/21799 DERDEN STEVEN /11/CRB/33774 DERDEN STEVEN /11/CRB/33775 DERDEN STEVEN /11/CRB/524 DERDEN STEVEN /11/TRD/1157 DERDEN STEVEN L 75/3798601 DERDEN STEVEN L JR /09/CRB/23892 DERDEN STEVEN L JR A/250768 mostly drugs, at least one gun, disorderly, and domestic violence each. + misc. If the guy would have been in jail he might not have been shot on the street (while PROBABLY selling drugs). AND 20 YEAR OLD STEVELT CARL /12/CRA/13249 HEROIN STEVELT CARL /12/CRA/34490 MURDER STEVELT CARL /12/TRD/20954 STEVELT CARL C/12/CRB/4482 FIREARM STEVELT CARL C/12/TRC/7145 CONSIDERING THE DAY I BRING UP POLITICS. One of the two sheriff candidates (subliminal Neil) said there are 400 cells in the courthouse that can be used for housing. He said it is used now to hold inmates who are going to court. How come Symon Lies never used those cells? That would give them 50% more cells. AND IF THESE GUYS WOULD HAVE BEEN INCARCERATED FOR THEIR PREVIOUS CRIMES THEY MIGHT NOT HAVE MET ON THAT STREET THAT NIGHT AND THEY COULD HAVE BOTH BEEN ALIVE AND SAVED US 25 TO LIFE IN FURTHER INCARCERATION EXPENSES, NOT TO MENTION THE LOSS OF HUMANITY.