My former boss was found shot to death in Washington...

[brooklynite]

Ronald Kirby, top D.C. region transportation planner, slain in Alexandria home

A man who helped shape the region’s transportation policy for a quarter-century was fatally shot inside his Alexandria home Monday in a stunning incident that has police — and his many friends in politics and the media — searching for an explanation.

Officials said Tuesday that Ronald Kirby, 69, director of transportation planning at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, died of multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and that the medical examiner had deemed the case a homicide.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/crime/dc-council-of-governments-official-slain-in-home/2013/11/12/c08d1590-4bb8-11e3-be6b-d3d28122e6d4_story.html

A messy world we live in.....

[In_The_Wind]

1. How long ago was it when you work for him?

[brooklynite]

2. 1988-1990

...when I was starting out in transportation planning.

[In_The_Wind]

4. Good thing it wasn't recently.

Who knows how many questions you would have to answer.

[HappyMe]

5. That's terrible.

I'm sorry to hear that.

[malaise]

6. Sad

This planet needs healing

[otohara]

7. Searching For An Explanation

Seriously?

This is America after all!

[adirondacker]

8. Sorry to hear this Brooklynite. The transportation beauracracy has to be an interesting and

frustrating one to work in.

Peace.

[bluedigger]

9. Sorry for your loss.

Having driven on the parking lot known as the Beltway, I can come up with a few theories as to motive, however.

[MADem]

10. No forced entry, multiple gunshot wounds to the torso?

I'd be interviewing family members and friends; I'd be all over his cell phone and land line phone records, I'd want to know who he'd been with lately.

Sounds like whoever shot him knew him and was angry with him.