Dave Lemen

Laundry and Homicide

Somebody was shot tonight at the bus stop around the corner while I was doing laundry.

Monday nights are laundry nights. Our landlord technically provides a laundry room, but it's a long walk down our steep driveway, a couple houses over, up a flight of steps, around the back, and down a flight of steps. Oh, and then you have to remember the combo lock sequence to get in. Aaannnd sometimes the machines don't work.

All this to explain why I throw our laundry in the car and take it to the 24-hour laundromat a mile away, where I can take advantage of the parallel processing power of multiple machines and get several loads done in a couple of hours.

Anyway, I don't know the details. I heard the cop cars go by. Then the rumor waves started rolling through the laundromat:

1. Somebody was shot dead.
2. A hispanic man was shot. Not sure if he's dead.
3. Not sure if the man was hispanic. A hispanic woman witnessed the shooting and yelled at the gunman not to shoot.
4. It was a woman who was shot.
5. It was the second of two shootings, beginning with a shooting in a cemetary at Adelphi.
6. Both victims were women. One's dead and one's at the hospital.

Being without TV, I'm looking for news online, but don't see any.