If you are a local reader you may already know about the big news here in the neighborhood (of the store). It has taken me 24 hours since I first heard the news to even begin to process it all. The story is HERE. Kind of scary and really sad. You never think that a major crime like this is going to occur literally in your front yard. (The main crime scene is two doors down from the store and the secondary scene is across the street, but the victim did pass right by here from one to the other.)
I can honestly say that other than this one house and its occupants, this is a good neighborhood and I've never felt in danger while here at work alone all day. I am very pissed off that this house with known drug offenders has been allowed to remain in operation across from two middle schools and within walking distance of an elementary and the local parochial school however. Now that all this has happened I find out that most of the neighbors and the police have been aware of these guys. I hope now at least something will be done about it.
Something similar to this happened to us this spring. Our house sits on a corner, and we noticed a police car sitting there at 12:30 at night...no big deal, we figured he was doing paperwork. When we got up the next morning, there were more cars all over the block. Turns out they had a huge drug raid only four houses down from us, and while I was giving the baby his breakfast I heard yelling outside the kitchen window-there was the ATF with all there guns drawn on a car! I yelled for Steve and ran the baby down to the basement...it still shakes me up! I would walk by that house with the stroller all the time! It amazes me that even the quietest neighborhoods still have that bad element.
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