This is a small news story - a murder of a successful individual from a poor area by his brother in a part of the country/world most do not think about. However, I think you should give it some heavy thinking:

A GUAM resident who was charged with first-degree murder for the death of his older brother, whom he was visiting in California, is scheduled to be arraigned at a San Diego court today.

Zachary Tenorio, 21, will be in court at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, California time (7:30 a.m. local time today).

He was arrested hours after police responded to a crime scene, where his 25-year-old brother, Jonathan Jake C. Tenorio, was found dead in his Mission Valley apartment Sunday.

Jonathan Tenorio was a Navy officer and former Mangilao resident.

According to reports from San Diego news agencies, police were called to the scene after a roommate reported that he awoke to find Jonathan Tenorio dead. Homicide detectives began their investigation and about 10 hours later, Zachary Tenorio was arrested on suspicion of murder.

San Diego police eventually confirmed it was Zachary Tenorio who called and reported finding his brother deceased.

Lt. Jorge Duran of the San Diego Police Department told ABC 10 News that Jonathan Tenorio was stabbed once in the upper body.

“The initial indication from the Medical Examiner’s Office was that he did suffer a stab wound to the upper chest, which resulted in his death,” Duran said.

He also said a weapon was recovered from the scene.

“We’re not exactly sure what happened,” Lt. Duran meanwhile told NBC 7 San Diego. “There must have been some sort of argument, some sort of physical altercation that led to the victim being stabbed.”

According to the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department logs, Zachary Tenorio is being held without bail at the San Diego Central jail.

 

Guam is a small culture of individuals who literally try to do the best with a culture that was mostly dropped on them - you will see a lot of pride in individuals go on to American military academies, something that may actually be looked down upon by some Americans.

This young man persued success in a society in which many of us actually seem determined to rob success from one another. He got robbed of his life suddenly and for no reason - just like alot of hard working people are doing now due to our collective madness.

I was told the story by Joe (I'll keep his last name quiet for his privacy and out of respect), a Chamorro (Chamorros are the tribe that dominate the island, though the island has plenty of Filipinos). Joe is an interesting guy - he works in daily care for older citizens and is homosexual while coming from a culture from which homosexuality isn't exactly the most popular thing to be.

Like so many tragedies, this one was quite literally out of the blue and almost uncontrollable - as if things that rarely happened before were now happening as regularly as weather storms or floods.

I interviewed Joe when I re-launched the culture website that I started before I traveled to the island. The site had about a year of little to no activity and an article about him and homophobia among minorities was a weird topic to settle on from the hip hop and rap focus we had before.

Honestly, this guy could power about a thousand articles. I'm not sure he knows how interesting he really is. All sorts of prize items came out when I talked to him - especially about the murder of Jake Tenorio.

"I comfort myself by knowing we're a dispensable people and life will move on without us."

What kind of comfort is that? "We're all sort of dispensable when you look at it, Joe."

"Well I find it a consolation that life will keep moving on without me when I'm gone."

How many people think the same? And what does it say about society that that is how we value ourselves?