Allison Stein ([info]astein142) wrote,
2007-04-29 19:32:00
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Too damn close to home...

I am really, really, really glad I changed my mind about going shopping at Ward Parkway Mall this afternoon. I had intended to go to T.J. Maxx and Target after I got my car washed, but at the last minute decided just to go get groceries and head home. Not very much later, the mall became "one big crime scene" following a shooting spree that left three dead, including the shooter. Details. The time line would have put me in that parking lot at exactly the wrong time. That's "my" mall, darn it, and too freakin' close to home.

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[info]kalimeg

April 30 2007, 00:43:51 UTC 5 years ago

Quite -- and the shooting was supposedly at the Starbucks near Maxx, too.

[info]kosaginolegion

April 30 2007, 01:23:31 UTC 5 years ago

Wow. I'm glad you didn't go too. Unnerving to the extreme.

Bannister road is a strangely familiar name. Is there a mall by that name that way? (I used to live in Harrisonville and Belton, MO)

[info]kalimeg

April 30 2007, 01:41:32 UTC 5 years ago

Yes, but it closed. Over half the malls around KC have collapsed, and Bannister was the latest.

[info]astein142

April 30 2007, 01:52:56 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks, Kosa. Yes, you're thinking of Bannister Mall, which is closing at the end of May for lack of interest. Ward Parkway Mall is a couple of miles west and about 10 blocks north of it.

[info]kosaginolegion

April 30 2007, 02:14:49 UTC 5 years ago

It's the way of things. I haven't been in the K.C. MO area for over 20 years, so I'd be surprised if anything I remember was still operating. Like that little sandwich shop across from the Main Library. I have fond memories of that place during summer vacation.

The satellite views of Belton/Richards Gebauer that I find on Google Earth are hopelessly different from my memory, too. *sigh*

*avoids singing Memories*

[info]kijjohnson

April 30 2007, 02:24:13 UTC 5 years ago

Yeah, too close. Glad you changed your mind.

[info]astein142

May 1 2007, 02:42:41 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks!

[info]kalimeg

April 30 2007, 06:01:30 UTC 5 years ago

There is a link to your LJ from the KC Star

http://blogs.kansascity.com/crime_scene/2007/04/ward_parkway_sh.html

:)

[info]astein142

April 30 2007, 12:17:12 UTC 5 years ago

HOw did they get that? And of course it's to the rare instance when I use strong language.

[info]kalimeg

April 30 2007, 13:58:25 UTC 5 years ago

Isn't there a special search engine for web logs?

[info]nkcmike

April 30 2007, 14:08:55 UTC 5 years ago

Good job of listening to that inner voice!

[info]astein142

May 1 2007, 02:43:13 UTC 5 years ago

Sometimes it's best not to ask why, but to go with the gut.

[info]theresamather

April 30 2007, 16:35:41 UTC 5 years ago

EEEEEK!

Wow....so glad you didn't go.

*hugs

T

[info]astein142

May 1 2007, 02:43:29 UTC 5 years ago

Re: EEEEEK!

Thanks, T!

[info]fireguarder

May 1 2007, 00:44:17 UTC 5 years ago

Ditto to what everyone else has said - we're very glad you didn't go!

[info]astein142

May 1 2007, 02:42:18 UTC 5 years ago

Thanks!
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