http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=305671

This happened right down the street from my parents house, the house I spent most of my life growing up in. This kind of thing hasnt happened ever in recent memory in my hometown, I'm not sure that there has ever actually been a murder there.

The police questioned the son and impounded his car to search it for evidence... he hasnt been listed as a suspect yet but its obvious that they think he might be involved. I remember him, he graduated from my high school the year after me. He and I weren't friends, but we did have mutual friends so we saw each other occaisionally. He never seemed to me the kind of person to do this, and I dont think that anyone who actually knows him thinks that he did it.

My hometown is really shook up about this though; it's affected a lot of people, even those who didnt know the couple. The story also made the newspapers here in Rochester since the son who was questioned goes to UofR, and the couple had an older son who graduated from RIT... people have been asking me about it since they know I'm from the area. It's all just so crazy.

A few years ago in my neighborhood, this woman was going around collecting for some charity or church. She came to this one house, and the guy told her to go around the back, where he had some stuff. When she came in the back yard, he stabbed her and raped her in front of his wife (who apparently helped subdue her) and two kids.

it's like a modern day... that girl that killed her family with a hatchett... back in the day... in San Francisco. Really quite gross.

Where I live, people are murdered daily. Perhaps I have become cold to it, but I find it hard to become distrubed or very affected over something like this. It's a common occurance where I live.

One gets accustomed to it after while.

People get killed in horrendous ways, and it never makes the newpapers, websites, or evening news. It happens too often.

There are too many murders to count in my hometown. There was a gang shooting about a mile down the road from where I live. Closest it's been for me. A guy on a motorcycle was waiting at a stoplight to get on the freeway and a van rolled up and started shooting.

Growing up, I recall three drive-bys on my street (and I lived in the "nicer" part of town). Two of my neighbors were murdered in their home, and another was raped at the local grocery store. That's what happens when you live in the barrio.

Lizzy Borden

There were two kids killed in a drive-by about 10 years ago and it was all over the news and there was a huge memorial. I guess that murder just isn't as common here in Phoenix.

Makes me really glad.

A bunch of people chased down and nearly stabbed a kid to death near here. People were just driving right by, doing nothing. He's in critical condition.

Murders certainly aren't common here where I live. Still, in the previous apartment building I lived before moving to my current place, a man was stabbed to death just one floor downstairs from my apartment. One morning I left for work, using the stairs instead of the elevator like I always used to do, and I saw drops of red colour from the third floor all the way down to the first floor. I was just wondering who had spilled paint on the stairs.

When I got back from work that afternoon, the police had taped shut the door of one third floor apartment (with that "police - do not cross" tape). Next morning it was mentioned in the newspaper that somebody had been knifed to death right there...

Lassev, was this in Vantaa by chance?

i love the part where our shariff was campaining on how all crimes have gone down, particurally about there being 0 murders in lexington county this year....well at least untill my friend killed his father. yah that kina shot down our sherrif's ambitions to be re-elected again.. unfortunatlly he was running un-upposed.

oh yah, i to have been de-sencitised to murder. life sucks.

Such a lovely thread I've started here...

last one i recall was about 5 months ago, stabbing in a pub car park.

probablys drugs.

Last one around here was a woman that shot her unborn baby with a pelit gun while it was still inside of her...

Last time someone was killed around my town was probably in 1996 when some man was killed in a toilet. Hm.

wtf?!

No, it was in Oulu. A district that is said to be the worst in the city. One joke was that you don't need a TV if you live in that district, because if you just open your window, it'll be an action movie going on outside, all the time. Of course, in reality very rarely gets anybody killed or even roughed up. It's such a peaceful country, Finland.

No murders around here that I know of. We've had a woman rob a kiosk with a toy gun, and found by the police in the bar next door, drinking. And then we had this escaped convict (charged for taking a household hostage and executing them), running around in the woods roughly a hundred meters away from here a few years ago before he surrendered. Not very pleasant. Apparently he was trying to make it to the Hell's Angels HQ which is pretty close too (really cute how they have decorative Christmas lights starting around this time of the year)

A few years ago some teenagers ambushed and killed a man and wife in their car with small-calibre rifles, and then they dumped them into the Gulf not far from where I live. Some dirty money thing.

A few years ago there was the first carbomb in Finnish history. Killed 1 person (the intended target), and injured one other (the guy who set the bomb off, he was driving right next to the car when it blew). Again, just some narcotics/dirty money thing.

But then again, Finland is really pretty safe in that respect. In 2000 there were apparently only 28 manslaughters and 148 murders.

That's more of a makeshift abortion then murder. 2 different things. Now let's stay on topic and not start out on that tangent.
(PM me if your opinion differs from mine so I can tell you to shut up, thanks)

I remember in San Diego when I was in 3rd or 4th grade I was at school and this car drives by the school, guy sticks a mac-10 or something out the window and starts trying to swiss cheese my school. I think a couple kids got hit, one died (but he was a bully :D) and a porta-potty had to be put down.

But it could been worse.

Weird, I didn't know that the kid was a suspect O.o
He lives in the same building complex as me at the U of R and there's been at least one Rochester police car parked in the courtyard between our buildings ever since it happened.

People used to get shot, stabbed, mugged, executed (yes), right near where I used to live and in my general area my whole life in Toronto... It's nothing new.

He's not a suspect yet, just a "person of interest."

Add this to the list of reasons that CCW permits should be issued in all 50 states..

If we're talking about the last murder in our home towns, it was probably flast night. I don't know this for sure, but the murder rate in Oakland is at least on every other day.

I don't think anyone's ever been murdered (at least not in the past hundred or so years) in my county, let alone town. Although, down the street from me a man shot his wife.. but she survived.


Murder is a sick thing. I hope they find the ******* who did that and bring him to justice. Although there isn't even much justice anymore, the average term served by murderers is a whole 7 years.

Yep.

Except I don't have anything to add, other than I live in the city where the Amber Alert was first created. I remember when it happened too.

Yea, it's realy not bad here in Phoenix, which is good.

Nice to see how open-minded you are..
If an individual murders a pregnant woman and is charged with two counts of murder, killing an unborn child with a pellet gun should most definitely be murder as well.

Back on topic..a friend of mine was almost shot in a drive-by shooting a while back..he was on his bike and someone drove by and shot at him..

I live in a pretty quiet part of Washington state, so not many murders here. Freaks you out though, when you get the news that a level-3 sex offender is moving in half a mile from your house. *shivers* Double freaky when you recognize the name and remember that he was in your math class last year. He was one of those quiet ones, and you know what they say...

Here in ole' quiet town in Colorado, we barley get any crime. I find it odd to, since I live almost 5 miles away from lakewood, and that is a nice town, with a bunch of gangs.

I have never ever been involved in a fight. Usually when they threaten me, the butterfly knife makes an appearance and they back off.

I have never used that thing, and hope to never have too.

BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Ooh, a tough guy.

Around here, nothing short of a .45 and a kevlar vest will help you. Unless you know your way around (where not to go when, what not to wear, who not to look at directly), you're in trouble.

Maybe, but he lives in Colorado, not Colombia :p

i was getting the impression he was living in one of those war torn african countries.

My sister's friend works in a pub about 2 miles away, about 2 months ago some guys went in with shotguns, tied her up in the back, and stole her boyfriends car, leaving it burning to a crisp about 5 miles aaway

Yeah they caught her when she went to the hospital to repair the vaginal damage the gun causes to her.