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Title: Understatement, Knoxville Style
Post by: dave from knoxville on February 28, 2008, 06:42:46 AM: Here's a horrifying story out of near-Knoxville

http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/national/2008/02/27/Apartment.Shooting/ (http://www6.comcast.net/news/articles/national/2008/02/27/Apartment.Shooting/)

4 Dead in Tenn.; Gunman Commits Suicide

BRISTOL, Tenn. — A man killed his ex-girlfriend's current boyfriend, her mother and two other people, then killed himself after police caught up with him in a rural area, authorities said.

Rusty L. Rumley came to the family's apartment in a public housing complex Wednesday morning under the ruse of needing help moving furniture, Bristol police Chief Blaine Wade said.

Rumley, 26, took Francis Watson — his ex-girlfriend's 43-year-old mother — and her neighbor Roy Malone to a breezeway outside the 10-story Edgemont Towers where he shot them, police said.

Then he returned to the family's eighth-floor apartment and asked his former girlfriend for a drink. As she got it, he fatally shot her boyfriend, Brandon Michael Roskos, 20, and another friend, 53-year-old Danny Wayne Murray, Wade said.

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So, later in the article, we get this

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"We are looking into the possibility of him being distraught," Wade said.
Title: Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
Post by: Shaggy 2 Grote on February 28, 2008, 10:17:58 AM: You have one dark sense of humor, Dave. Though I have to admit that I do too.
Title: Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
Post by: Pat K on February 28, 2008, 10:39:03 AM: That is hilarious.

Whenever I see a story like that, I always want to start keeping a scrapbook, sort of a "No Shit, Sherlock" file. For all those times when you see headlines like "Gunman May Have Been Distraught", or "Study Suggests Inactivity May Be Linked To Obesity". Gee, y'think?
Title: Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
Post by: Sploops on February 28, 2008, 10:44:55 AM: Ghouls
Title: CSI
Post by: Spoony on February 28, 2008, 10:45:49 AM: There was probably an officer at the crime scene that suspected 'foul play.'
Title: Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
Post by: Josh on February 28, 2008, 10:46:20 AM: Why didn't he off the ex?
Title: Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
Post by: B_Buster on February 28, 2008, 10:56:04 AM: Quote from: Josh on February 28, 2008, 10:46:20 AM
Why didn't he off the ex?

Deep down, he was probably an optimist.
Title: If I had to get inside the mind of a killer...
Post by: Spoony on February 28, 2008, 11:06:58 AM: He may have shown up with the intention of helping out, but then changed his mind when he remembered that it was an eight story walk-up.

Not my idea of a "measured response." I would have faked food poisoning.
Title: Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
Post by: Sarah on February 28, 2008, 12:59:22 PM: Quote from: B_Buster on February 28, 2008, 10:56:04 AM
Quote from: Josh on February 28, 2008, 10:46:20 AM
Why didn't he off the ex?

Deep down, he was probably an optimist.

Well, there is no quicker way to a woman's heart. (Except for a bullet, of course.)
Title: Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
Post by: scotttsss on February 28, 2008, 01:11:12 PM: Quote from: B_Buster on February 28, 2008, 10:56:04 AM
Quote from: Josh on February 28, 2008, 10:46:20 AM
Why didn't he off the ex?

Deep down, he was probably an optimist.
:D
Most I've laughed while reading this message board. Well done.
Title: Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
Post by: Phantom Hugger on February 29, 2008, 03:46:41 PM: He did shoot someone with the middle name of Wayne, who knows how many future murders he prevented.