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dave from knoxville

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Understatement, Knoxville Style
« 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/

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.

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Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
« Reply #1 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.
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Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
« Reply #2 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?
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Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
« Reply #3 on: February 28, 2008, 10:44:55 AM »
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« Reply #4 on: February 28, 2008, 10:45:49 AM »
There was probably an officer at the crime scene that suspected 'foul play.'


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Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
« Reply #5 on: February 28, 2008, 10:46:20 AM »
Why didn't he off the ex?
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Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
« Reply #6 on: February 28, 2008, 10:56:04 AM »
Why didn't he off the ex?

Deep down, he was probably an optimist.
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« Reply #7 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.

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Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
« Reply #8 on: February 28, 2008, 12:59:22 PM »
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.)

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Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
« Reply #9 on: February 28, 2008, 01:11:12 PM »
Why didn't he off the ex?

Deep down, he was probably an optimist.
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Re: Understatement, Knoxville Style
« Reply #10 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.