Tragic day in my neighborhood...

[ZLTFUL]

http://www.kcci.com/news/27481715/detail.html

SO the realtor that sold my GF her townhouse was found today at the model home for our development with 2 gunshot wounds...one to the head and one to the chest. She was alive wehn she was found but died at the hospital not too long afterwards.
Right now the police have no leads and have been interviewing folks in the neighborhood.
Ashley was a very nice person and we had chatted several times when I caught her outside while walking my dog. She had a very bright personality that just made you feel like smiling.

The truly freaky part is where this happened in relation to our house...excuse the rough diagram but this is how close it was...

Model Home where she was found=X
Where our house is=Y

[X][_]     ^
[_][_]      S
[_][_] < E  W >
[_][Y]      N
[_][_]

The officer I spoke with would obviously not give specifics but said that they were larger caliber rounds. I mean I understand how well insulated these buildings are but the model had a large glass frontage replacing a 2 car garage door and there were several construction workers working on finishing the building immediately to the east of this one. Literally some people less than 100 ft away and yet nobody heard anything suspicious.
I hate to speculate but I have read about "execution" style murders before and this whole scenario smacks of something like that.

Anyway, my thoughts and prayers are with Ashley's family and I hope when/if they catch the person who did this that they pistol whip them to death.

[techno]

That's too close to your home for my liking. Make sure you lock up .

Condolences to the family. Sucky way to go.

[Oldfisti]

WOW.


I truly don't know what to say about this one.

[IZ]

Very sad! Like I said, I was always worried when my went out to show homes.  She was a Realtor for 6 years. We had a girl shot last winter in our townhome community <50 yards away from our front door. It's definitely scary! This story makes me sad.

[DRKWNG]

HOLY HELL!! 

That's all kinds of messed up.  Condolences to her family and loved ones.

[TiNi]

 

[mitt]

that is terrible.  I had not heard of it till now.  hopefully the catch the animal.


mitt

[cokey]

Silencer?  Some one should have heard it otherwise.  Last year some one got shot in the face 5 feet from my door.. woke us up, shots came from someone standing about 10 ft from our window..

[ducatiz]

That's just awful. 

Two quick rounds from most >9mm pistols would not be heard that well if fired inside a building.

Remember the DC sniper used the entire trunk of his car as a suppressor, firing out of one of the holes for the tail light (with the assembly removed).  He had removed the rear seat so he could lay prone with the muzzle 6-10 inches inside the car.

That alone was enough to muffle the sound so people didn't realize it was a rifle shot.

Plus most people learned how firearms sound from movies, which are usually about 1% accurate regarding firearms.

My mom was a realtor and when she'd sit alone in an open house, she'd carry a revolver..  It was a cute little model 40 in 38 but that was enough -- she waved off 2 separate "unwanted guests" over the course of 20+ years in real estate.

[Monsterlover]

My moms getting her Realtor's license now.

I worry about something like this

[TiNi]

can someone help me out... what is the motive here?
i mean, why would someone shoot some random realtor sitting at an open house 

[DRKWNG]

can someone help me out... what is the motive here?
i mean, why would someone shoot some random realtor sitting at an open house 

Don't know anything about the area where it occurred, but gangs have been known to use similar tactics (targeting random people) for initiation trials.  Or, it could have been someone taking revenge for some personal grievance. 

[ZLTFUL]

The neighborhood is full of young professionals, new married couples, etc. It is the "upscale"  part of the Des Moines area which makes all of this even more strange. West Des Moines (this suburb) has some of the lowest crime rate percentages in the state and Iowa on the whole is a low crime state.

Kind of strange walking the dog past crime scene tape this morning with a uniform sitting in front of the place.

[ducatiz]

The problem with "safe" neighborhoods is that people become complacent.  "it doesn't happen here" and so on.

My neighborhood is "safe".. i hear all the time things like "you can leave your doors unlocked" and so on.  Of course, when there was several burglaries last year, people were all surprised.

the guys were busted, they broke into one last home and the owner was up late.. he saw them, called the police and sat there with a shotgun on them until the popo arrived. 

people were talking about getting walkie-talkies and having a patrol until then.. 

[Raux]

one to the head and chest, large caliber, no sound... mob execution. Organized crime and land development kinda go hand in hand