This happened Tuesday night, three doors away from my house. At five o’clock I came home from work and there were cops parked on the side of the road. We took the dogs for a walk to see if anyone knew what was up – all the neighbors had found reasons to be outside. At that point Deb and Bryce were “missing”. We went home for dinner at 6:15ish. We came back out when an ambulance drove past our house at maybe 7:30. There were still three ambulances parked and the neighborhood consensus was a murder-suicide. I am amazed that something like this happened in my neighborhood. This is a quiet, friendly suburban neighborhood, where everyone knows everyone else and everybody waves when they drive or walk past. I didn’t know much about this family – we knew them as the neighbors whose chihuahuas would chase us in the street when we walked past, and the house whose lawn was never mowed. We didn’t even know a child lived there until around 2 months ago; we’ve only seen him once. I feel badly that I complained about the lawn when there were obviously much deeper problems in that house.
Please keep this family, and all the parents in our neighborhood trying to explain this to their children, in your thoughts tonight.
I read about this in the newspaper, and it was so very sad. I always find it terrible that there are people who really need help out there and aren’t getting it/can’t access it.