Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Law and Order Murder or Accident, 19-year-old Northeast Nashville Kid is Dead
Posted by Brantley Hargrove on Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 11:31 AM
Trevino Rawlings and Quvando Beddingfield
On Saturday night, Trevino Rawlings, 19, was playing with a pistol in the Charter Village Apartments on Rio Vista Drive. Police say they weren't drinking or anything like that. Rawlings handed the pistol to 18-year-old Quvando Beddingfield. The circumstances haven't exactly been nailed down yet, but Beddingfield pulled the trigger, shooting Rawlings in the mouth. He died from the wound.
Like me, you may be wondering why it's being investigated as a homicide. Sounds like two dumb kids playing with a gun that accidentally discharged. Involuntary manslaughter or reckless homicide at best. And that could actually be true. But if these guys were friends, that friendship had limits.
Here's why it's now considered a homicide: Beddingfield and several others present at the shooting hauled Rawlings' body into a red Chevy Impala, where paramedics and police found him after a neighbor called 911.
Beddingfield was sentenced to three years in prison in September for a felony aggravated assault. Rawlings received four years in 2007 for reckless homicide.
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seems like if both their asses were in jail where they belonged this wouldn't have happened. tell me any of the ways this statement is wrong.
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If both of these boys were at work, reading a book, or doing 1000 other productive things, they also might not be in the mess they are in (or dead)....
It sucks. I know. But it's the freaking truth.
I'm sick of hearing excuses about being a poor "gangbanger". Get your ASS in school and f&)@#n study.
True enough, Cupcakes, but I think neither you nor I have even the vaguest notion of what it is like to be a young black male in this country.
This story is real life. Boys are drawn to
danger. I can not believe some of the comment
that are on here. It is repulsive.
how u gon say sum shit like that i knw both of them and the one thats dead i used to go with and u know what he had a job workin hard to provide for his 1 year old daughter it was an accident bitch they were best friends trust me i know
I agree with shutup everyone!!!!!....Trevino had a job and a daughter he loved very much. What happened was an honest mistake and no one has the right to judge him because yall didn;t know him.
Well then what happens if the gun goes off and hits someone else? Someone completely innocent? Like his daughter.
If he loved his her so much, why'd he risk his life by playing with a gun? That's not an honest mistake, its a fuckin STUPID mistake. If you are idiotic enough to shoot your friend in the head, even accidently, you don't need to be on the street. Lock his dumb ass up!
It truly is a tragic mistake that should never have happened. Neither one of the young men, considering their previous felonies, should have been anywhere near a firearm. What I'm confused about are the actions of Mr. Beddingfield. If the two were such good friends, as shut up!!!! claims, why didn't he call the police? And why was he stuffing Trevino's body in the back of a car when the police finally arrived?
I have known Vino for several years, since he was about 4. It is no one's place to judge the events that occured in that apartment that night. None of us was there, none of us knows exactly what went on. All I know is that Vino is dead and is never coming back. The comments made here show what is wrong with society. People are so concerned with the what if, instead of the what is. Vino is dead and yet another young black male is losing his life to the system. Yes, they both made mistakes....bigger mistakes than some, but all the same, they were mistakes....but they are humans.
What saddens and baffles me is the ignorance that people are posting in this comment section. If you don't know the circumstances or the people, you can't base everything off of a newspaper article. Instead of the stupidity and ignorance that is being spewed here, think of the mothers of the 2 boys that may come to this site and see your ill-mannered comments.....acid to a burn.
Everyone have a blessed day!
Trecie
I would quite easily and correctly judge someone who is playing with a gun as an idiot. Those two were putting far more than their own lives at risk. That bullet could have ended up anywhere. It doesn't matter what color they were or what side of the tracks this happened on.
Stupidity comes in all colors and I'm sure everybody's mother knows that. What a waste of two perfectly good lives.
REST In PEACE TREVINO RAWLINGS!!!!! You ARE STIll THOUGHT OF AND MISSED DEARLY!!!
I knew both of them and they were loving people the one who is jail is my uncle he didnt try to shoot him so just stop making bad comments about him but he will be out soon just keep praying for him and will make a way
fIRST OF ALL YALL DONT KNW SHIT BOUT MY BROTHER SO FUCK YALL. HE WAS A VERY LOVING PERSON.
Vino its still hard for me to accept that you are gone. I sit up in my apartment everyday and wanna dial your number.
I think its stupid most of these people on here didnt even know anyhting about Vino but yet they are so quick to judge him as a person. I drove around Charter Village Apartments today because i thought it would help me deal with Vino being gone but it actually made it worse. I miss you best friend!!!!
trevino was my brother.not biologically but he is the father of my niece syriah. he is also my son Messiah's uncle.. and despite all of the foul and deformative comments that these ingorant and in sensitive ass holes are leaving he was a great person.To know him was to love him.. i miss those road trips to waverly bra. ME, YOU DARRYL, PEEWEE(MY SONS FATHER) AND LIL BRIAN. Sumtimes i look in the backseat when im riding and i swear i see you. but i aint tripping cuz i know that i will see u again.. so rest in peace lil bra. u nkow me and pee wee got syriah for u.. we miss u. bra. damn i cant believe you gone.. just shine ya lite down on us bra...(the suit)lol. man i miss u bra. love ya always yo sistah ashleigh armstrong.
first of all yalldnt know wat the fuck yal talkin bout.. my daughter dnt have a daddy and i dnt have the love of my life anymore..how would you feel if something like this happend to someone that u know.. i struggle dealing with teh fact that from this day forward i am forced to not only be a single mother but to also be left alone in this without my one and only true love, and the fact being that my daughter syriah will see her father again painsmy heart everytime i think about,. so the next time any of you have something derrogatory to say make sure that your own plate is clean before u start judging. cuz kharma is mafuka.. and for q man i hope that u are dealing with this better than i am buyt i will never forgive for taking my daughters father away.. i love with all my heart trevino.. your wife and one and only tru love..brittany armstrong...(ima kiss syriah for you..
I Know Its Too Late To Be Sayinq Anythinq , But First Off Yall Got My Cousin As Yall Wanna Call Him "Mr. Beddinqfield" Messed Up && All Sideways These Boys Grew Up Toqether & They Are Really Good Frann So We Dnt Need NO White People Tht Juss Tryna ASSUME Wht Goinq On Cuhh Yall Dnt Know Ishh . ONLY TREVINO KNOW & QUVANDO KNOW . & This Goes To CUPCAKE , HUH? , TETSUO, HARGROVE .
&TETSUO : YEAH IT A STUPID FKCN MISTAKEE . & VINO WOULD NEVER IN A MILLION YEARS PUT HIS LITTLE GIRL IN DANGER NEVER IN HIS LIFEE . SO WHT IF THEY WAS PLAYIN .W GUN . NIGGA . IS THEE HOOD LIFEE YU OBVISIOUSLY DONT KNOW WHT THT IS. SOME PEOPLE MAKE IT OUT THE HODD & SOME DONT. VINO IS BEING TAKEN CARE OF RIHT NOW BY GOD . NIGGA. SO GET YA SHXT TOGETHER NIGGA .
&HARGROVE : AS FO YO ASS NIGGA . LIKE I SED THEYY GREW UP TOGETHER . & THEY HAD HIS BODY IN THE BAKC OF THEE CAR CUHH THEY WAS TRYNA TAKE HIM TO THE HOSPITAL . KNOW YO STORIES MANEE . MY CUZIN WAS TOO IN SHOCKED THT HE KILLED HIS BESTFRANN . HE LIVIN .W THT SHXT EVERYDAY OF HIS LIFE . SO MY OTHER COUSN CALLED THE POLICE . SO BEFORE YU START BEING SO CONFUSED ABUT MY COUSIN & WORRYING ABUT HIS ACTIONS , IMA NEED FOR YU GET THE "REAL STORY" BEFORE YU START OPEN YO MOUTHH . CUHH THEE MEDIA DONT TELL YU EVERYTHING & DONT HAVE THE FULL STORY.
PISSES ME OFF THT; YALL SIT HERE TALKING LIKE YALL REALE KNOW BT YALL DONT .
Anyways Good Day ! Im Out . My Cousin Will Be Out In Nov. & We Will Be Goinq To Vino Grave .
:Shoutouts Go To Thee RAWLINGS Fam . RIP VINO!
ITS BEEN OVER 2 YEARS NOW AND EVERY DAY I SIT AND THINK ABOUT MY LITTLE BROTHER BEING DEAD, THE CIRCUMSTANCES, PEOPLE INVOLVED, AND WHAT WAS GOING THROUGH VINO'S MIND AS HE LAID THERE TAKING HIS LAST BREATHS...I DONT KNOW THAT I WILL EVER GET OVER LOSING HIM! I MISS HIM MORE AND MORE EVERY DAY. I DONT SEE IT GETTING ANY EASIER...I JUST LOVED HIM SO MUCH AND WISH THIS WHOLE THING WOULDNT HAVE HAPPENED. ITS SO HARD DEALING WITH NOT BEING ABLE TO SEE HIM PHYSICALLY. HIS DAUGHTER NEEDS HIM SO MUCH RIGHT NOW. BUT GOD MAKES NO MISTAKES SO IM COUNTING THE DAYS TILL I CAN SEE HIM AGAIN...I LOVE YOU TREVINO!
