Seven Dead at Alma Mater
From 1995-2000 I was a student at Truman State University in Kirksville, Missouri. Some friends still live there (ahem, Mr. Marshall), it’s a quiet little community in the vast fields of northeastern Missouri. Just blocks south of the campus seven people were found dead this weekend. Current speculation points to carbon monoxide poising from a tuck-under garage, however police are tight-lipped and awaiting the autopsy results from the state medical examiner in Columbia. Sad event, involving small children with all of the victims 23 or younger.
Yeah, its kind of shaken up things around Kirksville. I drive by that duplex every morning on my way to our babysitter’s. The autopsy results now say it was carbon monoxide, but they don’t yet know if any other substances were involved that may have impaired judgement, etc. Sad way for Kirksville (and Truman) to make the news.