Gone Too Soon
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This book is based on facts of an event – my Dad's murder, that occurred in 1992.
A snippet of his life from birth to joining the Navy, then the Police Department and finally becoming a Disc Jockey, prior to the unfortunate incident on February 18.
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Gone Too Soon - Laura Evaneski
GONE TOO SOON
LAURA EVANESKI
ITI Music Corporation
ITI Music Corporation Publishing
16057 Tampa Palms Blvd West
Tampa, FL 33647
COPYRIGHT © 2019 BY LAURA EVANESKI
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.
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ISBN: 978-0-9995684-4-6
Printed and bound in the United States
Cover: RoxC LLC/www.roxc.graphics/Roxanne Clapp
All Photos: Courtesy of the Evaneski Family
This book is dedicated to John Evaneski.
Thank you to my husband and writer Michael Dion for his encouragement and help in putting this book together. (You can find this book, along with his books and Jazz Label at www.itimusic.live)
Thank you to Bill Jakub for hearing me out and keeping me on the path.
Thank you to Phil Ribera for his emails about my Dad. He is also a great writer – please check out his books.
Thank you to My Daughter for always expecting the truth.
And finally, Thank you to My Sisters for Their Love.
INTRODUCTION
GONE TOO SOON
Late September 2018, I received a text message from my middle sister saying, Call me, I have wildly interesting news.
Being the curious person that I am, I called her right- away.
She told me that a man called her looking for me about a letter I had written to him in 1994 and that he felt bad that he'd never responded to me.
My sister gave me his phone number and email address and within minutes I had typed out an email reply to him.
I told him that I knew I couldn't call him because I would be too emotional but I wanted him to know what an impact he had made on my family and how important he was to my father.
I had to go to an appointment that I had scheduled for the day and afterwards when I looked down at my phone after clearing my calendar, I saw that I had a missed call from him.
After all these years, was he really searching me out?
Was it a hoax?
Two days earlier I was having inner turmoil whether I should write this book. I had started and stopped it so many times, over the years, that ranged from concentrating on the murders or the direction I have chosen to go into that has also been shaped by the twenty-five plus years since the senseless crime, as well as the early years that helped shaped this man.
It's a very personal thing to write about the life, escapades and eventual murder of your own father. However, truth be told, I really didn’t know my Father very well.
In the end, you'll have to tell me what you think?
Was it the right thing to do?
GONE TOO SOON
Chapter 1
The Crime Scene
Assess the scene. Save the savable. The Oakland Fire & Rescue had a horrifying situation on their hands. Years later, one of the paramedics on the scene wrote a book where he discussed what happened that night. That the man that he treated was still alive, but unlikely to make it, so they used their training and saved the savable.
I know the training and understand it but still, I am open about my anger.
What if?
Just in the past couple of weeks as I worked on this book during October-November 2018,