Double Homicide

So I get home last night 'round 7-ish. All around my block are marked and unmarked cop cars and ambulances. They are everywhere! The place is teeming with 'em.

I get out of the car to speak with the cop that is yellow taping off my alley. He says two people were found murdered in the house right behind me.

The house of a federal judge.

Oy.

Not too much later the detectives show up. What did I see? Was I home today? Nothing and no. Takes my name and is gone.

Then begins the endless buzzer to my building. Reporters wanting to talk. What did I see? Was I home?

It was a madhouse all night long. My room pulsing with the disco beats of red and blue flashes. Cops hollering for this or that.

Today the buzzer continued. I normally answer the buzzer with a nice "yes?" By noon it was "WHAT?!" I did let one crew in, though, to get a shot from my balcony. Channel 7 in Chicago now has scoop shots, thanks to me.

It's tragic. The husband and 89 year old mother of a judge were shot once over the right eye and once in the chest. There is evidence that the husband was forced to carry the mother down the stairs to the basement.

Tragic. And probably linked to the white supremecist group that had a hit out on the judge for a year. She was to be taken out on the anniversary of the beginning of waco.

That was yesterday, incidently.