FLINT, MI – Reeling from the panicked phone call telling him that his son had been shot, James Melton sped toward Flint wondering if his son would live or die.
There had been a fight at a house party.Shots had been fired and now doctors were frantically trying to keep Nigel Melton from becoming the city's 69th homicide of 2012.
The weeks and months that followed would be filled with questions, including this:
Why were twin brothers free to shoot his son when they had already shown a history of violence?
In fact, the twins were just two of the people who passed through a revolving door on prisons and jails that has had violent consequences for the city of Flint.
A Flint Journal analysis of homicide cases filed in 2012 -- the deadliest year in Flint history with 68 slayings – found nearly 70 percent of those charged had previous felony convictions..."
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