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04-17-2003, 07:47 AM
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A murder 200 yards from my house!
Two bodies were found in a parking lot early this morning. This parking lot is about 200 yards from my house. When I left for work investigators were stopping cars and asking questions. I heard a noise early this morning (around 5 am) which sounded a little like 3 gunshots, or a car backfiring or something. I didn't realize it at the time, but apparently they were gunshots. I've been listening to the news but not a lot of information has been released yet. According to the news, someone else apparently heard 5 shots.
Here's a map I doctored up to show where this happened relative to my house:
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04-17-2003, 07:54 AM
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yikes
Jeff
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04-17-2003, 08:10 AM
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I don't mean to make light of the situation, but I can't help it with that map-
Do you live on the wrong side of the tracks? 
Fear not- my policeman friend tells me that 90% of murders aren't random acts perpetrated against strangers.
Todd
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04-17-2003, 08:34 AM
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I know how you feel. In the early summer of 1997 a serial killer terrorized the city I live in. One morning on my way to work, I noticed news vans from every local station parked in front of a townhouse right behind mine. The serial killer was a close neighbor! He was executed last year.
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04-17-2003, 09:10 AM
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Do you live on the wrong side of the tracks?
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Ok I don't get it.  The tracks aren't in use.
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Fear not- my policeman friend tells me that 90% of murders aren't random acts perpetrated against strangers.
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So I only have to worry about 10% of them then...
No new information yet.
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04-17-2003, 09:44 AM
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I had a murder-suicide just 4 houses down the street from my house last year.
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04-17-2003, 10:12 AM
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The only thing Death related that happened by me was somebody jumped from a pretty high building to his death in Pittsburgh when I was going to college there. A friend and I were walking to go get groceries and cops were all roping off the neighborhood. At the time we went into the grocery store, one could see a silouette profile of somebody on the roof. By the time we got out of the store, he apparently jumped.
Jay
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04-17-2003, 10:31 AM
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They found a body in a dumpster across the street from our townhome complex, and my wife had to call the police one morning when a body was thrown out of a slow-moving van right in front of her... we bought a house in another part of town the month after that happened.
As was pointed out earlier, most murders aren't random killings. Stay out of trouble and you'll be OK, for the most part... it's still very disturbing when something like this occurs, especially near one's home, where we want to feel safe. 
/Mike
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04-17-2003, 11:05 AM
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I live in Canada. No murders anywhere within several km of whereever I lived.
Well, there were many fights outside the bars that were across the street from my apartment building. Plenty of car accidents during the day (lots of bad drivers go shopping), and I do recall a standoff with police outside that same apartment at 4 AM.
Never live close to bars/pubs. They suck.
Now I live in a townhouse next to an indian reserve in the SW area of the city. It sure is boring here. Bunnies are flocking around the schoolyard next door. I'm pretty sure they fight over scraps of thrown food, but so far no one has called the cops.
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04-17-2003, 11:13 AM
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A woman who lived in the apartment right next to mine was murdered several years ago.
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