On March 25, the day before the much-covered Trayvon Martin shooting, 34-year-old Zachary “Zach†Gamble, a former U.S. Marine and veteran of two tours of duty in Iraq was found lying unconscious in an apartment complex parking lot in Cobb County, Georgia.
Gamble was attacked by a group of men as he left a friend’s birthday party held at the Concord Chase Apartments, according to police.
Gamble was rushed to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital in Marietta, with severe head injuries. He never regained consciousness and was taken off life support April 8.
Gamble left behind his 7-year-old son, Luke.
On May 1, police arrested Arthur Lynell Batchelor, 37, of Acworth, and Jason Scott Hill, 35, and Tarell Winston Secrest, 36, both of Marietta, while Sean DGene Hall of Atlanta, 38, was arrested a day earlier.
The Marietta Daily Journal has reported that Hall has also been charged with violating his probation stemming from a 2009 DUI conviction.
There had been a total of $30,000 in reward money offered by Atlanta Crime Stoppers and Tina Robbins, the victim’s mother for information leading to the suspect’s arrests. Police have not yet said if the reward led to the arrests.
Gamble was white and all of those accused of his brutal murder are black, and while the details of this tragedy did not rate even a mention from the national press…the very next day, such details seemed to become the only thing that mattered to that same press in another tragedy.
So, is the race of the victims and that of the perpetrators the only reason the press has so heavily pushed the Martin killing while ignoring Gamble’s fatal beating?
We have been told many times that the reason for the disparity in the coverage of the Trayvon Martin shooting and other violent crimes was that the admitted shooter, George Zimmerman had not been arrested.
However, that simply does not hold true in Gamble’s case, as no arrests were made until weeks after his death as well.
Unfortunately, violence, murder and racism are sad facts of life in this country and none of the aforementioned maladies show any signs of weakening.
The least we should expect is equal and fair crime coverage from the press, yet we are not receiving it.
The press has a duty to cover the news…all of it.
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