Criminal Minds

Shemar Moore is clearly close with his mother, Marilyn, so I thought I’d find out a little more about their relationship. She sounds like a great mother, and her son obviously adores her.

Marilyn was a teacher. After she and Shemar’s father were divorced, they moved to Holland. Shemar’s mother only spoke Dutch to him so he didn’t learn English until he was five or six.

About his race, Shemar says:

The world sees me as a black man, but my mother didn’t raise me as a black man. She didn’t raise me as a white guy. She raised me as Shemar Franklin Moore. She said; don’t worry about being black or being white. Just be you, and go tell your story.

Shemar also biked 100 miles to raise awareness and funds for the National MS Society. His mother, Marilyn, has the disease. He got his Criminal Minds buddies to help him out and plans to do the bike tour again.

Shemar’s mother also made sure her son took his education seriously. While in high school, Shemar was a star pitcher.

I could run, but I was throwing 93 mph coming out of high school. So I got drafted by Baltimore and Boston, so I thought I had a chance to play at Fenway Park. But I got drafted out of high school, and my mother wasn’t having it. She was like, you’re not about to think that you can just play ball, because if you get hurt, you’re going to be out of luck. So you’re going to go to school, and you’re going to get that piece of paper, and then you’re going to do whatever you want to do.

One more day. Season three starts off with “Doubt,” the lost episode from season two. “Doubt” was pulled out of the lineup last year because of the shootings at Virginia Tech.

(Officers at Virginia Tech tend to the wounded)
On April 16, 2007, Seung-Hui Cho killed thirty-two people and wounded four more. He then killed himself. Cho was diagnosed with a severe anxiety disorder in middle school and received treatment until his junior year of high school. While at Virginia Tech, he was accused of stalking two female students and was declared mentally ill by a Virginia special justice. At least one professor suggested he seek counseling. The Virginia tech shooting surpassed Columbine and the University of Texas shooting as the most deadly school shooting in the U.S. Wikipedia has an extensive entry for the shooting if you want to know more about it.
So the producers pulled the episode because it was to air so close to the time the shooting occured.
It’s definately a timely topic. On Friday, September 21, two students were shot at Delaware State University. The campus was closed immediately - classes were cancelled and students were told to stay in their dorms. The reaction was swift because Virginia Tech had been widely criticized for not taking action sooner to prevent more deaths.
Police have identified two “persons of interest,” one of whom is in custody. The victims were one female, who is said to have possibly life-threatening injuries, and one male, who is in stable condition. Thankfully, there were no more injuries and no fatalities.
In the Criminal Minds episode, a college campus is shut down after shootings, and the BAU works on a profile of the unsub. After they have a suspect in custody, the shootings continue.