Mr. Deneke was born March 9, 1978, at Wichita, Kan., and was a resident of Amarillo since 1981. He was an artist and worked for Marsh Enterprises Dynamite Museum, Amarillo.
Survivors include his parents, Mike and Betty Deneke of Amarillo; a brother, Jason of Amarillo; and his grandparents, J. Omer and Marie Bieker of Concordia, Kan., and Darlene and Loren Lehmann of Gaylord, Kan.
The death has been ruled a homicide.
One December night, a rumble between the rival groups culminated with a "jock" from the more affluent side of town named Dustin Camp deliberately mowing Deneke down in his father's Cadillac. Camp was found guilty of "voluntary manslaughter" but never served a day in prison for the crime, nor did he have to pay the $10,000 fine he was served upon his conviction, in part due to his attorney's ability to pin Deneke's death on the boy's punk persona -- he was a "menace" and an aberration; he practically deserved it, went the defense. (Camp did ultimately serve five years for parole violations, years later.)
Mr. Deneke was born March 9, 1978, at Wichita, Kan., and was a resident of Amarillo since 1981. He was an artist and worked for Marsh Enterprises Dynamite Museum, Amarillo.
Survivors include his parents, Mike and Betty Deneke of Amarillo; a brother, Jason of Amarillo; and his grandparents, J. Omer and Marie Bieker of Concordia, Kan., and Darlene and Loren Lehmann of Gaylord, Kan.
The death has been ruled a homicide.
One December night, a rumble between the rival groups culminated with a "jock" from the more affluent side of town named Dustin Camp deliberately mowing Deneke down in his father's Cadillac. Camp was found guilty of "voluntary manslaughter" but never served a day in prison for the crime, nor did he have to pay the $10,000 fine he was served upon his conviction, in part due to his attorney's ability to pin Deneke's death on the boy's punk persona -- he was a "menace" and an aberration; he practically deserved it, went the defense. (Camp did ultimately serve five years for parole violations, years later.)
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