[Don Joe]

Putting out a public APB with the shooter’s description would have quickly garnered the desired result.

The desired result?

Or perhaps the UNdesired result?

Who is the perp?

Is he "connected"? Related to some "town father" type "person of influence"?

There is often tremendous pressure to sweep "bad news" under the rug in small communities. I say this as someone who lives in a small community, and has lived and worked in small communities for approx. thirty years, and has seen an awful lot of awful stuff -- an awful lot of which never made it to the newspapers.

(The "cone of silence" is quite effective in terms of "keeping it out of the news" but it's less than useless when it comes to keeping it off the grapevine. When you work with a variety of gov't and police officials, and chat with bankers and other in-the-loop folks, you tend to hear things that will basically wreck your faith in "the inherent goodness of your fellow man.")

[sodpoodle]

“””Who is the perp?”””

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,299946,00.html

An off-duty sheriff’s deputy went on a killing spree early Sunday morning, gunning down six youths in a Crandon home. The suspect, 20-year-old Tyler Peterson, was shot and killed by authorities after a manhunt.
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The victims included his estranged girlfriend - a recent HS graduate.

[Lucius Cornelius Sulla]

wreck your faith in "the inherent goodness of your fellow man.

I am a Catholic conservative, and have never believed anything as silly as that!