In 1990, Edwin had a son, Jeffrey, with his then-wife, Suze Jupiter. 12, 1962, had four siblings: three brothers, Wallace, Frantz and Didelot, and a sister, Sylvie. 1, Moore boarded the B46 bus and didn’t pay the fare.Įdwin Thomas had been a bus driver in New York City for seven years. The justice ordered his release and promised to drop the charge within six months if he stayed out of trouble.įive months later, on the morning of Dec. That July, according to court records, Moore violated parole when he was caught carrying a knife longer than four inches. But starting in April, he was once again unemployed. He attended anger management classes, and from what she could tell, her son was headed in a new direction. The streets had turned her “quiet, soft spoken and respectful” son into an “angry, impatient person.” But Moore was humbled by his daughter’s birth, Campbell wrote, and after he was released on parole Feb. In a letter to the court dated October 2010, Anne Marie Campbell, Moore’s mother, wrote that her son hadn’t always been a troublemaker. Moore was convicted of attempted murder in the second degree, sentenced to one to three years in lockup and sent to juvenile detention. The court proceedings for that charge were still in progress in April 2006 when Moore was arrested after he stabbed and nearly killed a teenage boy. Moore was 17 when he pled guilty to one count of endangering the welfare of a child, but he spent no time in detention. Moore was arrested again in 2005 and charged with sexual misconduct and failure to exercise control of a minor after he was found to have been sexually involved with a 13-year-old. He violated that probation in July and was sent to juvenile detention after police caught him carrying a loaded revolver. His criminal record begins in February 2003 when he was convicted and put on 18 months probation for armed robbery. The court withdrew the case and sealed the record the charge isn’t on his rap sheet. In December 2002, when he was just 14 years old, Moore was accused of robbery. Horace Moore is no stranger to the criminal justice system. *** Horace Moore (Source: Brooklyn Supreme Court) But Moore returns, rushing back onto the bus and toward the driver. For a moment, it seems the incident is over. He moves to the steps of his bus, making as if he’ll follow, but quickly returns to his seat behind the steering wheel. ![]() The driver stands to follow the delinquent passenger while more than a dozen other riders watch from their seats. Moore flies into an inexplicable rage, punching the driver’s head, grabbing a transfer and turning to flee the bus. When the driver refuses, citing the unpaid fare, it begins. Moore swipes an invalid MetroCard and, though he doesn’t pay the fare, the bus driver doesn’t hassle him.Īt his stop on Malcolm X Boulevard and Gates Avenue, Moore demands a two-dollar bus transfer. ![]() The back doors of the B46 bus open just before noon at the stop on Utica Avenue between Saint John’s Place and Sterling Place, and Horace Moore boards. While her uncles and grandmother speak, Edley gazes at the flame. “Things haven’t been the same since my brother died.” ![]() When Frantz moves in front of the NY1 television cameras, he pulls a bandanna over his face, holds a vigil candle in one hand and clutches under his arm the Bible that Transport Workers Union Local 100 gave his mother in memory of her slain son. People in the crowd call out, “We’re all with you, brother.” Wallace steps back, unable to finish his sentence. Wallace begins to talk about his brother, his voice cracks and tears run down his face. Edley Thomas, their niece and granddaughter, stands to the side, quietly leaning against the wall, vigil candle in hand. Frantz rests his hands on his mother, Marie Josette Nerette’s, shoulders. Next to him is Frantz Thomas, his brother, whose Yankee cap is pulled low. His long graying dreadlocks fall around his shoulders. Wallace Thomas stands in front of a flower arrangement made of white tiger lilies and white roses and tied with a white sash. Someone passes out white vigil candles, and the bitter wind makes them hard to light. Bus drivers and passersby are bundled in jackets, scarves and hats, and they gather in a tight crowd around the four members of the Thomas family at the B46 bus stop on Malcolm X Boulevard and Gates Avenue in Flatbush. as the December sun creeps lower in the sky. Three years after Edwin Thomas was murdered on the B46 in broad daylight, his family mourns his death.
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