Try To Save Him, End Up Dead

Can we learn anything from Terrion Sherman and Abigail Simpson?

This is a tough one, so I won’t do much heavy lifting because I am probably unqualified to do so. Here is a pretty detailed report on this situation, and I will link a video in a second. Let’s run through some basics.

Abigail Simpson was from Wisconsin. Sometime in maybe 2018, she went to Minnesota to go to Hazelden, which is a noted rehab facility. (One of my uncles went there.) She was a late teenager and her addictions were apparently to alcohol and weed. I know that semantically you cannot be addicted to weed, but “weed” also could be a cover for something harder. I don’t have her case file.

While in Minnesota, she met a young man named Terrion Sherman. Sherman seems to have had a rough life. He was abandoned by his mother, and he had repeated charges for drug dealing, robbery, attacking guys on train platforms, etc. He had a fondness for synthetic marijuana and it made him a little bit crazy when he smoked it.

He had been in and out of “chemical dependency” treatment, so I will guess they met at something tied to Hazelden. Her mom says that she was very empathetic and the rehab program was fostering that even more, so she “loved him” and “thought she could help/take care of him.”

She moved back to Wisconsin after treatment, then a year or so later, she moved to St. Paul to take classes and be with Terrion. Then, apparently in February 2020, with his two-year-old nephew in the house, he beat and killed her. Here is the video of cops arriving to the apartment complex: