Eric Connell Fields Jr. was found lying dead in a chair on his mother's front porch one August morning. His brother pulled him inside and started CPR. Later, the family told the press that he had been to a nightclub the night before. This morning, I read that the autopsy report showed that Fields had suffered fatal injuries to the head and that this had been the result of a fight in the club. He had been in this fight only hours before his death. According to the article, Fields also had a high blood alcohol content. The article read, " During the autopsy, the medical examiner determined Fields had a blood alcohol content of .16 percent"(Tomsic1).This was another possible factor as to why Fields was involved in the fight, because he was too intoxicated to make good decisions. The article ends telling about how the police have taken action and gotten search warrants to investigate and hopefully find the murderer of Fields. After reading this article in the paper I was deeply saddened. Murder is a very serious crime to me. This crime would easily relate to circle 7 round 1. Round 1 pertains to the violent against neighbors. I think Dante would agree that the murderer would be placed in this circle. I feel that compared to people of this round like Alexander the Great and Attila who are almost fully submerged in the river of blood, this murderer would only be in knee-deep blood. Dante describes this round saying, "But turn your eyes to the valley; there we shall find the river of boiling blood in which are steeped all who struck down their fellow men"(Alighieri94). With no doubt I believe that Dante would agree in putting the murderer of Fields in round 1.
The relationship between the murder of Eric Connell Fields Jr. and the sin described in circle 7 is very similar. I believe Dante would also agree to put the murderer into the circle 7 category. The police will continue to search for the murderer and hopefully justice will be served.
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