So true.
Missy


--- On Mon, 11/2/09, jmajgrigg@... <jmajgrigg@...> wrote:


From: jmajgrigg@... <jmajgrigg@...>
Subject: Re: [Andy Griffith Show Fans] Mount Airy, N.C. shooting
To: "TAGS" <andygriffithshowfans@yahoogroups.com>
Date: Monday, November 2, 2009, 12:58 PM


That's sad... Its happening all over the country... We live in a small rural
area in SE ohio and we've had more murders in one year than we did all together
in the last decade (1990s)... The burglery and robbery rate has trippled and the
drug trade is rampent.  And child abuse has almost doubled in the past three
years... Blame it on whatever you wish... But this country is not safe for
anyone anymore
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-----Original Message-----
From: "stevezl1" <stevezl1@...>
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:21:30
To: <andygriffithshowfans@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: [Andy Griffith Show Fans] Mount Airy, N.C. shooting

Now I know there's nowhere safe in America anymore.

Subject: Mount Airy, N.C. shooting

Police: 4 shot dead in N.C. parking lot

Town was inspiration for fictional Mayberry in `The Andy Griffith Show'
The Associated Press

MOUNT AIRY, N.C. - Four men were killed in a shooting at a northwestern North
Carolina television store on Sunday, and authorities said they were looking for
a suspect who might be armed with an assault rifle.

Mount Airy Police Chief Dale Watson said at a news conference that the victims
were shot in the parking lot of Woods TV store in the town on the Virginia
border and less than a mile from the police station. Police said a warrant has
been issued for the arrest of Marcos Chavez Gonzalez. He is charged with four
counts of murder.

Watson said the victims and the suspect were at the television store for a
reason.

"We don't feel this was a random event," Watson said. "We do have an idea why
(they were shot), but we won't be releasing that."

Watson said alerts have been issued in North Carolina and Virginia to be on the
lookout for Gonzalez. Authorities had detained two men but released them after
it was determined that they were not involved in the shooting.

Tears

Nursing supervisor Sue Coe at Northern Hospital of Surry County confirmed that
two people died at the store around 2:30 p.m. She said two who were wounded died
at the hospital, just across the street from the store. Woods TV sells
televisions and satellite systems.

Police say the victims' names were being withheld because their families have
not been notified. Watson said all four were from Surry County that includes
Mount Airy. The town served as the inspiration for the television town of
Mayberry in "The Andy Griffith Show."

WXII-TV in Winston-Salem reported that people who knew the victims gathered near
the store and began crying and collapsing to the ground.

Mount Airy, with a population of approximately 8,700, is about 100 miles north
of Charlotte. Griffith is a native of the town, which has built a tourist trade
on nostalgia for the show that continues to thrive in syndication.

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