User:Ravynpearce

Ravyn Pearce:
Born October 12 in San Diego, California. Raised By Vera Rose Reed Ogden and Christopher Jason Pearce. She has a half brother named Chautbreland Zachariah Scott Reed. Also know as Scott Reed. She stayed in California for only a small portion of her life and then moved across the state to Kalamazoo, Michigan. Her family stayed there for a short period of time, her father and mother constantly got into arguments and physical altercations. Her grandmother drove from virginia beach, virginia to pick her, her mother, and her brother up so they could leave. She was only six years old. As Ravyn's life progressed she began to mature at an early age. her mom worked two jobs to support ravyn and her brother, but that wasn't enough. Her mother met Mathew John Ogden in the year 2001. They soon became engaged and married in Las Vegas. Ravyn, Scott, and her mother moved into a large house in Norfolk, Virginia. Living in a rough neighborhood, ravyn worried about her future. in June 2007 she decided to move with her grandmother in virginia beach, all seemed fine and dandy. She got a job at Gino's pizzeria the first day she moved and worked everyday after that. In August 2007, Ravyn had surgery on her spine due to scoliosis. She wore a brace hidden under loose layers of clothing until November 2007. She continued working at Gino's and attending Salem High school until June 2008. After returning from a week vacation she started working at Dominick's pizza and Pasta a few blocks from her house. After working there for only one short week her worst fear came true, she was put at gun point by a man who wanted to rob the restaurant. Here is the article that was featured in the local newspaper:

'''when a man carrying a gun sneaked into Dominick’s Pizza and Pasta just after 10 p.m. Saturday and demanded that he open his safe, Abbondante tried to tell him that there was no money in there, that he should go for the register instead.

“I told him to walk to the register, get the money, leave my store, and no one would get hurt,” said Abbondante, who owns the pizza shop. “In a situation like this, they see the money, they’re going to be happy and walk away.”

The man had his gun trained on one of the restaurant’s employees, Abbondante said, and kept insisting: “Open the safe! Open the safe!”

The safe was where Abbondante, a former security officer, kept his handgun, which he carried with him when he left the restaurant at night with the day’s receipts. If he opened it, he thought, the man would see the gun and start shooting. But he didn’t see any other choice.

So Abbondante opened the safe. The man fired once, and missed, Abbondante said. He fired back – he doesn’t remember how many times – killing the intruder.

“I’m not proud of it, because when you kill a person, you take somebody else’s life. That’s not good at all. Nobody wants to do that,” he said. “But in this case, I’m happy. I think I saved my life and my employees’ lives.”

Police on Monday identified the man who was killed as Johnny Marocco Williams, 41, of Winder Court in Hampton.

Dominick’s was closed Sunday as employees worked into the night, scrubbing the restaurant with the help of a professional cleaning crew. Abbondante said he plans to reopen today.

The shooting was something that employee Ravyn Pearce says she never wants to go through again.

“It was so shocking. It was insane,” said Pearce, who at one time had the gun pointed at her. “People always say, 'If I was in that situation …’ but you never know what you’re going to do.”'''

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