yo boy from Austin TX

I am a 15 year old child from Austin TX.

I have a cousin named David King, he was put in prison for life because the cops said he shot a guy multiple times in the chest and he shot another guy in the ear and it was all because of a drug deal that went bad. Me personally I don’t think my cousin would do anything like that. Me and him were raised together so I know how my cousin is and how he reacts to things, he is a real chill person and doesn’t like to hurt people or see other people get hurt. The way the cops got him was they told him they wanted to talk about house brake-ins and when he showed up they arrested him for capital murder the first murder of 2010. He was in jail for 2 years before they took him to trial and they convicted him. He has been in jail for 2 years 2 and a half months, the state of Texas convicted a innocent man and I am doing a report on false convictions and there is a lot of people that has been false convicted I think it was 85 in the last couple of years not really sure thou. My cousin taught me a lot of things I use now. He taught me to not let anybody disrespect you, always show people respect until they disrespect you, don’t trust nobody, always protect your family cause its family over everything, think about the things you do or say before you do or say something, fight for what you think is right, and always do what you want and not what everybody else is doing and don’t let people peer pressure you into doing something you don’t want to do. When he was out of jail I was gang bangin, smokin weed, sellin drug, fighting, getting in trouble and I didn’t care about the consequences at all. I saw what my cousins were and other people were doing and thought it was cool so I decided I was going to do it to I was easily influenced and I was raised around that kinda stuff so that how I wanted to be. Ever since my cousin got locked up I have been staying out of trouble I haven’t been fighting and I don’t gang bang anymore. After I saw what happened to him I didn’t want that to happen to me so I decided to clean up my act. I read a book call ‘’the war of the bloods in my veins’’ and it taught me some life skills. The one that stood out the most is when he said “life is like a chess game, you have think make a smart move and win the game if you don’t think before you move in a chess game you are going to lose the game, life is the same exact way you have to think before you make a decision and if you make that right decision you are going to go somewhere in life and amount to something, if you don’t think before you make a decision you are going to end up just like my cousin in jail cause you didn’t want to be smart and think about the decisions you make. Ever since I saw that in that book my life is a lot better.

p.s yo boy from Austin TX.