mk and colleagues/friends are okay.

All well here. Just surreal. 3 or 4 blocks away.....

was wondering. Yikes!!! Wook!

News trucks everywhere. Massive vigil across the street. Surreal.

never understand the pure evil, and is kinda glad she never will.

Says we were looking at pics of the gunman and realized we had walked past him a few times in the last few weeks.....he sat on a bench a couple of blocks down.

YIKES! To bad you can't see into someone's future just by looking at them.

Says I know! We kept thinking he looked kinda familiar. He was the guy that hung out in front of Walgreens. Saw him Sunday morning.

whoa! Talk about a brush with fate. I read somewhere that residents of the neighborhood quickly disavowed him and made it clear that he was an outsider.

Not everyone. The former mayor talked with him most mornings, giving him advice on job hunting....good places to eat....

of course, reality and post-trauma rewriting of narratives are two different beasts.

Exactly. I think that's part of it. Del Ray is really small, though - so you do tend to notice new faces. Apparently he was friendly with some people and gruff and mean with others.