Lock him up & throw away the key. He murdered a fine young man who bowled with my son in their younger days

The real kicker is ..it has been said he was so high on heroine he didn't have no clue what he did.so basically he is sitting in there with nothing to think about other then he has lost freedom...he needs to see pictures of what he did and dwell on that....maybe if he seen the outcome of what he made a choice to do that dreadful day he would have some sense of remorse..that smirk on his face discusses me...i hope that anyone who drives under the influence of drugs or alcohol takes a hard look at the affects it will have on their family as well as someone elses whom they may affect by their irresponsible decision if something were to happen like Jordan stewart did...you took away a life that just began...rest in peace josh we love ya buddy....

I was in a line of traffic behind that accident shortly after it happened. As we passed the site there were people tending to the young man in the car and I prayed for him as I passed his car- prayed that he wasnt in pain, that the EMTs would get to him quickly and that he would be ok. I go pass that site every day and see the flowers and special things the family have placed there to honor his life and it reminds me daily to stay alert, never text while driving, never be preoccupied with anything else but driving. My heart and thoughts go out to his parents and family every day. Shelley DeFries

Everyone pays for there consequences whether it be in this life or the next. Jordan was also a fine young man at one time, who like many others, fell victim to heroin addiction. Many who know him, find this unbelievable. Heroin has horrible consequences that are sometimes and often deadly. Unfortuantely in this case heroin claimed two lives. My thoughts and prayers go out to both families because in the end they will both have suffered a devastating loss. Jordan and his family will live with what he did for the rest of his life and nothing will ever bring Josh back.

I bowled with josh for many years and remember seeing him the Thursday before the accident we actually bowled against each other and I will never forget how great of a guy he was and was always smiling! This idiot who took his life better rethink his life as he sits in jail. I would make him have a picture of josh in his cell at all times just so Josh's face can be burnt into his memory!!

My family is grateful for the amazing support from the community and from Josh's friends. As Josh's brother, I have to disagree with you, Mike. Jordan Stewart may have been a "good guy" at one time. His driving record says otherwise. Good people do not blatantly disregard the law. People make mistakes, but Jordan Stewart has a consistently bad record that indicates a complete disregard for his life and the lives of those around him. Jordan Steward did not fall victim to heroine, he came from a family of privilege, raised with a father who provided him with a very comfortable living. My brother and I lost our father as children. My mom has buried a husband and her youngest son.

Jordan Stewart willingly tried heroine, he consciously used an illegal narcotic. Heroine did not cross a center line and hit him head on in his car, heroine did not magically jump into his system. Jordan Stewart made a decision to become an addict. Josh was not simply a consequence of someones poor judgement. Josh lost his life because someone had an absolute disregard for human life. He willingly got into a pickup truck, turning his fathers work truck into a deadly weapon. The Stewart's may have to live with the guilt, but Jordan Stewart still gets to live. He has the opportunity to get clean, he has the opportunity to turn his life around, he has the opportunity to marry and raise a family, he has the opportunity to talk to his parents.

Josh does not have the opportunity to do any of this. Instead my mom wakes up to an empty room, an empty chair at dinner. She will never see josh marry the girl of his dreams, she will never hear the laugh of his children or the low rumble of his car pulling up outside. So, there is very little sympathy for Jordan Stewart. This was not an accident, the road was not wet, the sun was not dark, a deer did not jump into the road. Jordan Stewart chose to get high, the first time and every time since, his family chose not to help, and if they did it was not enough. Unlike Jordan, Josh was being a responsible young man, going to work on his day off. Josh was completely innocent, and heroine did not kill him. A reckless kid, with no respect for himself or others, killed my brother.

A year after the crash, he is charged? With all due respect, as soon as they got back the sobriety blood or breath test that he was drunk, he should have been charged.

Why did they wait so long?

This whole thing might not have happened IF: 1) Someone never introduced him to the drugs in the first place. 2) If drinking was involved, not sure but ban the sale of this killer drinking kills and disables more people every year then anything else. I'm sorry for the death of this young man, he won't be the last and he sure wasn't the first. I pray the family finds in their hearts to forgive this man and get their life back together. Prayers for all.

I lost not only a cousin but my best friend because of Jordan. Don't blame the drug but the person who was irresponsible enough to take it in the first place. Josh was an amazing person who did not deserve to be taken away from us so soon. This man needs to pay for taking away joshs life. Even if "two lives were lost," Jordan is responsible for both still. Rest in peace joshy I love and miss you. Hopefully Jordan will finally get what he deserves.

Are you kidding me there should not be any pity for Jordan. If I am not mistaken he has been involved with other driving offenses and it wasn't his car so yes I hope his patents feel terrible for allowing a monster to drive and not putting him in rehab prior. I will never have my cousin to look after me. I don't have a brother and he filled that place for me. He taught me so much and was so talented. He will never be at my wedding meet my kids or anything because his life was taken so stop complaining you still have Jordan he may be dead from heroine but at least you can touch him, smell him, hear his voice and gave him grow old with you. And more than anything I hope Jordan will remember my cousins face lying there holding on to his life because he crossed the road. I love you Joshua you have always been an angel but now your my angel.

I hope they throw the book at Jordan Stewart. This was not the first time that Jordan drove under the influence. As for both family's suffering, I disagree Jordan's family can go to the jail and see him. They can talk to him on the phone. Jordan can breath and open his eyes tomorrow morning. Jordan's family has hope that their son can get better, they still have hope that one day Jordan can have a family of his own and they will have grand children from him, josh Hanna had his last breath taken in the prime of his life by someone who obviously had no concern for life it's self. Josh's parents can't call josh they will never have grand children by josh. Josh's family my son my family and all of josh' many friends have a huge part of our lives missing. JORDAN STEWART I only wish you could have been sober enough to see and recall what you did that day. I wish Jordan could feel the pain that Josh's parents felt when the police knocked in their door or when they seen the condition josh was in at shock trauma, the great loss and pain they endured at josh' funeral. It is totally unfair that there is a chance that Jordan Stewart could get out and he and his family could return to a normal life, and Josh Hanna and his family and friends didn't even get to say goodbye.

I wonder if the person(s) that sold Jordon the drugs can be held complicit for Josh's death in a civil wrongful death case. It's been done before with similar cases involving bars and bartenders.

I cannot understand why he was allowed to remain free for an entire year before the indictment. With his priors and this, he should NOT have been allowed to be free for even one single day. He could have killed someone else! There's no justice! He should NEVER be allowed to see the outside of a jail cell ever!

@Chris be careful when you refer to the loved one lost as "the dead kid", revenge is not the answer, but have some respect for my brother and my family when referring to him. Josh is not some dead kid, he was and still is a wonderful person who was taken prematurely by a kid who deserves ever consequence coming his way in both this life and the next. Jordan will one day stand before his Creator and will give an account to why he took the life of one of God's precious creations. Choose your words more wisely, one day you may lose someone close and you'd expect the same courtesy.

No, my friend you do not have respect. Justice is not rehabilitation, Jordan can go through private rehabilitation paid for by his family. The justice system executes justice in the form of incarceration, removing his rights for a determined amount of time. Sorry for your few losses....try losing a father and a brother....the loss is a little different then a friend. And get your facts correct...Jordan Stewart was not drinking, he was high on heroine, a vastly different situation. How about you pay for Jordan's rehabilitation, let him live with you, go through withdraw, steal your money, relapse and kill another person. If you had any idea how an addict functioned you would know rehabilitation only works if the addict wants to change, Jordan Stewart does not want to change. If he wanted to change he and his family would have reached out to my family. They never did.

Man you really do not pay attention. Its not an issue of punishment. Jordan Steward broke the law, his actions resulted in the death of another person. His actions were completely his own, he must face the consequences, and in our society of law, the consequence is incarceration. Once again rehabilitation does not work. It is a personal choice to change, not something conferred on you by the state. I guess the state could try rehabilitation, pass people through a program, pat themselves on the back for a job well done, but in the end the criminal will go break the law again.

I'm wasting my breath because you've proven to be rather dense, considering you are still referencing alcohol, when alcohol WAS NOT involved.

Cbristopber, let me ask you to re read all th post on here. I never once said an eye for an.eye. I never once mentioned revenge. I simply felt that the post mike posted sounded like both families are at a equal loss and that's not a fair statement. As for our legal system, i am sorry to say that i have little faith in it. Why didn't our legal system have Jordan Stewart off the road in the first place , then maybe all these psst wouldn't be here now. As for the dead kid he was my friend he has a name it is Josh hanna, he was a son a brother a grandchild cousins and he had many friends that all the rehab and legal system in the world can never fix by bringing josh back. So as i stated in my fist post i hope that jordan stewart gets the book thrown at him. Oh and Christopher please refer to my friend that was taken away from us by a repeat offender by his name Josh Hanna and keep. It respetful for his family .

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Revenge and punishment are not synonymous. They are two different things. Our justice system should be about punishment and rehabilitation.

I hope the Hanna family finds some peace.

I am glad that this guy I now behind bars. All I am reading is that this guy is not responsible for his actions because he is an addict, yes the drug did get a hold of him but he is the one in the beginning that CHOSE to do heroine and we have all been taught how addicting of a drug it is. But as I said he made that choice, a conscious decision. Josh was the true victim here. Lets not forget that. He was just heading down the road, like many of is do as do our children. I am sad for this guys friends and family that will lose him. But only the ones that had tried to get him help. Not the ones that stuck their heads on the sand and armed him with a vehicle. I do wish Josh's family peace, and ppl please stop attacking his brother. No one knows how he feels.

Jordan was in rehab at one time, his parents did what they could, granted, it could have been more. Jordan sitting in jail only contributes to our nation's debt, (about $70k annually?), it would be a much better turn of events if he had heavy fines and could use the rest of his life to preventing these events in anyway he could. The family of the lost son should team up with him and show everyone (mostly highschoolers) the dangers of these drugs and driving under the influence. The family would rather just lay blame which is the easy way out. The hard thing to do, which is also the most beneficial would be to help everyone around us LEARN FROM THIS.

I am also wondering why if the police report a year ago said that Jordan crossed the line, he wasn't arrested on the spot? That is grounds enough for negligent driving, the truth is at the time of the accident it wasn't proved who crossed the line first and it appeared as if they both did. Another example of how evil drugs are, the man who survived with drugs in his system gets all the blame simply because it was in his system. All the people reading this need to consider everything they put into their system and the effects it could have on other and their future.

Before I address the gross incompetence of your posts User One, I want to know where you got your information? NO ILLEGAL SUBSTANCES were found in Josh's system! I have been civil in my previous posts, but this crosses the line, you have no idea what you are talking about, nor do you seem to care to have your facts correct. IF Mr. Stewart was so heartbroken and grieved by his actions, he and his family would have reached out to my family.

I DON'T KNOW HOW I CAN ARTICULATE THIS ANY CLEARER FOR ANYONE WHO CARES TO READ: but my family lost a loved one, a person died. Are you so desensitzied that the lose of life is so flippently overlooked that you would suggest my family "team up" with the Stewarts like its some sort of boy scout project. BLAME!? Your going to accuse my family of wanting only to lie blame? My family wants their son, brother, grandson back.

Yes we are laying blame on Stewart, he crossed the line, he was intoxicated, he had drugs on him. He chose to turn his truck into a weapon. How about going a step further and saying people should take responsiblity for their actions. The police report is public record, it would benefit anyone who feels the need to speak an opinion to read the report. And to be perfectly honest, I could care a less about anyone's opinions concerning the accident or Jordan Stewart. I just know how much this event has crushed my mother. I have seen how she was once a strong outgoing individual, but now is withdrawn and chronically depressed. So posts your comments of righteous indignation calling for both parties to come together and sing kumbaya, but the reality remains the same, an innocent life was lost and justice must be executed.

I understand that life was lost, this is a terrible thing, in an unnatural way such as this. But there is nothing that can be done now to bring him back, sadly. So all we can do is learn from this as I've been trying to say. You also mention that the Stewart's have not reached out, which is a bit disturbing, but has your family reached out to them? And I'm positive that nobody knows the absolute truth of the incident but regardless, Jordan shouldn't have been behind the wheel of a car. I am also wondering if heroin was in his system or if he was actually high at the time of the incident. I just hope anyone who reads this sees how horribly dangerous heroin is.
I offer my sincerest condolences to you and you re-cooperating family, this isn't my place to speak but you and your devastated family should try to celebrate his life and the time you spent with him instead of obsessing over the unfortunate, too-soon, ending of it. I wish you and your family the best.

So once again we see a number of people who wish to excuse the user and blame the victim (including making up 'facts'). I suppose they, given their probable lifestyle choices, are trying to positioning the argument in case they are involved in a similar future accident. How pathetic.

Rehabilitation and punishment are not mutually exclusive. If found guilty, lock this killer up and treat his addiction behind bars.

Joshua Hanna was GOD's Creation. Justin, I apologize for all of these insulting, degrading comments that you have endured from such idiots! Pay NO attention to them, do not even answer them. There is no good that comes from earthly uglies. You were raised in a family with morals and values that they may never know. I am honored to know your mom and grandmom, they are wonderful loving people. Know in your heart just how much they love you both and always will, no matter what! These other people mean nothing. I know your family's pain, I've lost a brother, a sister and a father. My mom has endured the same kind of grief, as do you and I. The Stewart family owes you all an apology at least, but if they are not God's people you may never get one. I'm very sorry for that, I truly am. As far as the "Justice system" that is run by men too, not to worry, God's vengence will have it's wrath, I promise. You owe no one, except your family. Hold onto mom and grandmom, they will never steer you wrong, their love is too deep! Trust God, trust me, when I say "You are God's child too and He wants the best for all of you." "The world" doesn't even know what real love is, or respect or things that really matter, but you do.

I would want to stand up for my brother in this situation too, but honestly, they are all a bunch of morons to even begin posting like they are. Simply honor your brother always by being the best man you can be and you are a good man too! No matter what the outcome is, you and Josh have the greatest gift that God could ever give you...true family love. May He bless you every day of your lives. With much love and respect, Kristy

I have lost multiple friends within the past years. Josh was one of my best friends who was always there for anyone who needed him. He was not doing drugs, or abusing anything he was being a good person and going to work on his day off. He was a hard worker and one of the best people I will ever come in contact with. THe statement only the good die young must be true cause the day that jerk crossed the road he took a great one. He will never be able to help another person or brighten another day. Revenge will never bring back Josh but justice most be paid. A year later Jordan Stewart is finally charged is completely rediculous. He has been able to roam the roads and is lucky he has not taken another life. If he wanted to change his addiction he had a year to take actions and go to the family and put himself in rehab programs and prove he felt remorse and wanted a change. I can't imagaine knowing you have taken a life and not want to change my own for the better or going to the grieving family and change my act. Sorry for my spelling and grammer but that's the last thing on the mind when all I see are the faces of my friends that are gone and I can never share a laugh or a hug with them again.

This is Vikki,

I first met Joshua from my daughter. He had come over to my house and introduced himself and was very polite and courteous. My daughter has a heart condition and he was always a friend she needed around. He would pick her up food if she was sick or come see her in the hospital. He has helped her when she had attacks and was always trying to do the right thing. I have had to watch over the past year my daughter grieve many losses of her young friends. She never thought people she talked to about growing old with wouldn't make it to there 22nd birthday to celebrate and see the joys of life with her. Through my daughter I met the Hanna family out of couriosity of where this fine man was brought up.I made a point to meet his parents, I believe good parents need to know there friends families. We all have to look out for one another and our kids. I became very close with his mother and family. I was there the night she heard the news hours after the incident had happened. I couldnt even begin to describe the pain in her eyes and how my stomach felt about the news. The last thing a mom wants to hear is anything has happened to there child, the last thing you want to hear is it resulted in a death. She was very outgoing, strong, and a pleasure to be around as was josh and now she is sad and depressed and will never be able to see her son come home again. I pray for there family everyday as a mom i could never imagine living with that loss.

This is Vikki,

This family will never be the same because of this loss. I just can't understand why someone who has taken a life is aloud to be free for so long like nothing has happened. It makes me sick to know that he has been driving around and could possibly to take another life without any punishment for what he has done. I pray that he is punished very soon. The sadness of this situation is that the sentence Jordon gets will never be enough for taking Joshua's life and won't take the sadness from Joshua's families hearts. It's so sad that we are losing all these young people to these drug additions. I just can't understand how someone can live with themselves after doing something so horrible to another human being. I hope Jordon and his family realize how this has affected Joshua's family and pray to God for forgiveness.