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“This happened in the mid-’90s. The football varsity captain, varsity co-captain, and the junior varsity captain robbed the pizza place next to my after-school job and murdered someone I knew who worked there. One of the captains worked there, and they planned to stage a fake robbery, while the other two captains would pretend to be robbers and make him open the safe and registers. An off-work employee stopped by randomly while this was happening, and one of the ‘robbers’ shot him in front of his two-year-old son with the very real gun.”
“The shooter was in my psychology class, and in my desk pod (the classroom was arranged in groups of four desks pushed together). All week, our teacher would make sure we were all doing okay (the shooting happened in the strip mall closest to our high school, so dozens of juniors and seniors worked in the various businesses there).
He made comments like, ‘I hope they get him,’ and ‘That’s scary, so close to home.’ One day, maybe that same week, even, the police came to the school, and I’ll never forget how I felt in this moment. The shooter was called to the office during our class, and he just stood up, gathered his backpack and book, smiled at us all, and said something like ‘Well, that’s that’ (something that hinted at admission).
And I’m fairly certain they canceled a number of games. The joke in town was, ‘Oooh, don’t play [X] High School, they have a killer football team!’
The trial was a whole debacle because there were other football players peripherally involved, like how they got the gun from another varsity football player. He wasn’t present during the shooting, but worked at a sporting goods store and had stolen the gun from their boss.
All three were found guilty and got varying sentences. They were caught because they used a school logo football bag during the robbery and then dumped the empty bag in the park between the school and the strip mall.”
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