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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsEl Paso Shooter lived about 1mile from my home
Just a bit freaked out. My family is multi-racial and we have been many times to the closest Walmart to his home. We shop there alot for certain items.
He also attended my daughters' college at the same time. They did not know him.
Not been this creeped out since I found at we were at the mall that was attacked by terrorists in Nairobi on a day they did a walkthrough (Christmas Eve) before the actual attack.
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)must be a white boy...yep. Sorry but that was only the first mass shooting on Saturday. The second was in Dayton.
BigmanPigman
(51,649 posts)I am sick and disgusted with my country at this point. Good job Putin!
LittleGirl
(8,292 posts)so very sad for all of those innocent people terrorized by these young men with guns.
What have we become?
SunSeeker
(51,787 posts)Pretty upper middle class.
But rapidly changing demographics.
https://allenedc.com/data-reports/demographics/
Just the sort of situation that freaks out the local white racists inspired by Trump, like the killer.
maryellen99
(3,790 posts)JCMach1
(27,585 posts)Kids move there because they have a great school district and literally one of the top 5 HS football programs in the country. Kyler Murray was the latest player of note to come out of the program.
I don't know where his family came from but those houses are new (less than 5 years old). Old Allen was known to be very much a red neck retreat, but that was decades ago. In this particular part of DFW Hispanics and unusually, South Asians flock to. Last 3 elections Collin County went from +30 red to BETO losing by just 20000 votes here.
Relatively speaking there is no crime and it is extremely peaceful and not noticeably racist ...
The shooter lived a posh life in a place that is pretty close to how we think of the American dream right, or left.
tanyev
(42,663 posts)And one of my co-workers who lives in Allen is currently in El Paso visiting family. Hope they are all OK.
Codeine
(25,586 posts)the Nairobi incident back then. Odd how small the world can sometimes seem.
I also left a conference in Lebanon a few years back the day before (hell was even visiting Bekaa valley) Bibi decided to sneak invade and bomb Lebanon.
pwb
(11,304 posts)JCMach1
(27,585 posts)And any number of names/expletives also work.