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Shooting on Easley

August 25th, 2007 | Category: Crime,Traffic

shooting.jpgThanks to alert neighbor DS for the heads up on this. Someone was shot last night about 100 yards away from my house. Right in the path I take when walking home from downtown. Many thanks to ABC7 news for apparently being the only local news outlet to report this story.

According to the story, the shooting happened around 11:15pm Friday night and took the life of 30-year-old Mark Ray. Witnesses saw a man fleeing the area, but there aren’t many other details. If you walked down the camera angle from the photo for about 60 seconds, you’d probably be in my backyard. This is a little disconcerting, to say the least.

And in other news…

The Washington Post has a story about speed cameras coming to Montgomery County. Our esteemed County Executive was well quoted:

“Unfortunately, we’re here to remind the citizens of Montgomery County again of the need to slow down and observe safety regulations in order to prevent tragedies,” such as the four pedestrians killed in the county during August, said County Executive Isiah Leggett (D) yesterday during a news conference near Wheaton High.

How about the need for people to not jaywalk with a sense of entitlement? Sure, people need to slow down, but not for the sole purpose of being able to stop for some idiot that crosses against a light – or nowhere near a crosswalk.

UPDATE: Right after I posted this, the story on the ABC7 site was updated to say that a suspect has been arrested in the incident. No other details yet.

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  1. Bonifant more sinister than Thayer August 27th, 2007 10:41 am

    Okay, Easley is more sinister than Bonifant.

    My bet on the shooting is that this was not a random act of violence. I expect the shooter knew the victim, and I would be surprised if it wasn’t premeditated.

    Does anyone know who Mark Ray was? Did he live in the neighborhood?

  2. Eric August 27th, 2007 8:06 pm

    I would tend to agree that this was an anomaly, and I think most of the residents will probably assume that’s the case.

    No more details as of yet, and still not covered by the Post at all. Anyone know motive yet? When do the police let out that kind of information?