Samuel Irick, Victim of Affirmative Action Justice, Has been Posthumously Nominated for a Citizenship Award in Houston

 

Hero Sam Irick.
 

Irick’s killer.
 
By Nicholas Stix

Reader-researcher RC writes: More on white good Samaritan murdered by black male: Sam Irick was shot and killed in November of last year, after trying to help a woman as a gunman tried to steal her purse. Irick has now been selected as a finalist for the “Citizen Service Before Self” Award.

HOUSTON (KTRK) -- A man who died while trying to help a woman during a purse snatching is being honored for his courage and selflessness.

Sam Irick was shot and killed in November of last year after trying to help a woman as a gunman tried to steal her purse. Irick has now been selected as a finalist for the 'Citizen Service Before Self' honors. The finalists and winners are chosen by the recipients of the Medal of Honor.

They'll make their final decision two weeks from today.

Anthony Ferrell, 39, is charged with capital murder in Irick's death.

[“Slain good Samaritan being honored for courage,” by Anonymous, KTRK-TV Houston/ABC13, March 7, 2011.]

Sam Irick is allegedly dead because although 39-year-old, lifelong persistent felony offender Anthony Ferrell had repeatedly violated his parole, the members of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles refused to revoke parole, and instead sent him to a no-security halfway house which he never should have been placed in, and from which he walked away. At the time of allegedly murdering Irick, on November 7, Ferrell was a fugitive from justice for a month, but prior to his allegedly starring in a murder videotape, no one in the Texas criminal justice bureaucracy was interested in apprehending him.

See my November reports on Sam Irick:

“Samuel Irick, American Hero, RIP”;

“Update: Suspect Arrested in Houston Murder of Good Samaritan Samuel Irick.”; and

“Was Samuel Irick a Victim of Affirmative Action Justice?”

Members and Commissioners of the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
Members

Rissie L. Owens
Charles Aycock
Conrith Davis
Jackie DeNoyelles
Juanita M. Gonzalez
David G. Gutierrez
Thomas A. Leeper


Commissioners

Freeman, Pamela D.
Garcia, Tony
Hensarling, James
Hightower, Elvis
Humphrey, Billy S.
Kiel, James Paul Jr.
Moberley, Marsha S.
Morales, Edgar
Ruzicka, Lynn
Shipman, Charles
Speier, Charles C.
Thrasher, Sr., Howard A.

Agency eddress:

bpp-pio@tdcj.state.tx.us

Troy Fox Board Administrator Tel.: (512) 406-5452/5453; Fax: (512) 406-5482