Homicide 35 years later?

54 year old Bufor died December 29th. He was shot in the back 35 years ago and just recently had complications with the wound causing multiple organs to fail, and he died. The wonderful legal system is calling his death a homicide after all this time. And to add onto it his wife said that he hasn't really experienced any complications health related up to this point in time, so she herself was very surprised when it was ruled a homicide. The story goes like this... He was seventeen at the time. He had been gambling with some of his peers while on a trip to pick up his girlfriend. He won money and refused to return, which got him shot in the back. His future wife only heard pieces of the story, saying that he had put it behind him. And apparently he ran into the guy later in life and told him to forget about it. The prosecutors are having a hard time turning up any credible evidence. Making it likely that the guy will never be caught... in my opinion.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/28537290/

I read a blog by Dave Beck at http://www.socialdave.blogspot.com/, it was on this same story and his view on it was pretty much the same as mine. It seems a little movie-ish or a CSI kind of thing. It is as Dave said far fetched and the police should realize that it is near impossible that they will find the shooter because of how long ago the incident occurred and do they think the shooter is just going to show up and turn himself in? I guess the latter part of the previous sentence could occur but in my opinion that is very unlikely. I don't quite understand completely as to why his organs failed was it completely due to this gun incident? Who for sure knows... I guess the guys on CSI might be able to figure it out but I am not one of them so I can't tell you. The fact that it happened 35 years ago and that the victim who is now dead forgave the "killer" shows that this shouldn't be a homicide. I mean of course it isn't right for the guy to shoot him but still it didn't kill him "until 35 years later". I would really like to hear if they in fact do catch this killer and also more information about the whole story. It is quite intriguing... and in fact could be pretty good material for the next CSI. Until next time...

~Charlie~