Mourn yes but inflame, no [Update]

Let us mourn the untimely death of anti-abortion activist James Pouillon, without creating the illusion of a war where there isn't one.

The man arrested for Pouillon's murder reportedly told Owosso, Mich., police he was also involved in the death that day of Mike Fouss, a gravel pit owner.

As of this writing, nothing actually explaining the motive for the killings available.

Randall Terry's rush to declare Pouillon a martyr is heat without light.

Update:

AP reports Harlan James Drake, 33, has been charged with first-degree murder in association with a grudge-killing spree. Pouillon and Fouss were killed and there would apparently have been a third death had police not apprehended Drake after the second killing.

Drake "didn't like the activist [Pouillon] holding a sign with graphic images of a fetus in front of students," AP reported. The story goes on to say:

The gunman drove next to a gravel pit business and shot and killed the owner, who apparently also upset him, police said. Authorities believe they stopped a third slaying by catching up with the gunman before he could kill again. ''The defendant had ill will toward these three individuals -- not for the same reason necessarily, but had a grudge,'' said Shiawassee County Prosecutor Randy Colbry.

Read the entire story here.