The New York Times Magazine, Sunday, August 22, 1999

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The New York Times on the Web respect. SUNDAY STYLES Vows Column Archive Victor Ebisan Ekperigin first saw Sarah Frances Redd a year ago, when he sat across from her on a Q subway train rattling through midtown Manhattan. Also, the latest fashions in On the Street. LEARNING On This Day On August 22, 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt became the first U.S. chief executive to ride in an automobile, in Hartford, Conn. See this front page and read the full Times article. You are signed in as w2jcjim View Your Profile | Log Out http://www.nytimes.com/yr/mo/day/ (3 of 3) [8/22/1999 9:13:35 PM] Copyright 1999 The New York Times Company Privacy Information
Killers Among Us • Killers Among Us • Camping Lessons • It Isn't Easy Being Green • Unreal Estate THE WAY WE LIVE NOW Killers Among Us • The Slacker Temp • Plainspeak • What They Were Thinking What kind of person would open fire on innocent kids? An animal — just like any of us. By LARRY DOYLE friend of mine was murdered last month. We had been much closer in college and had fallen in and out of contact as people do; even though we had lived within 20 minutes of each other for the past three years, we had had dinner once. I came to work one morning and a co-worker told me that a friend of hers was trying to reach me about a friend of mine. I called. Janet was dead. She Photograph by Lars Klove/Nonstock had been causing trouble for some drug dealers across the street, and the night before last, people had broken into her home and executed her. She was four months pregnant. I couldn't sleep. Not crying, not mourning in any usual sense, I lay in bed, twisted, caught in the twilight, before dreams but beyond waking. I stood in front of my friend's home. I crossed the street and entered the drug dealers' house, which nicely conformed to the lairs I had seen in movies and on "N.Y.P.D. Blue." And I began shooting. I shot the one on the couch in the stomach, moved into the bedroom and shot two on a dirty mattress, one in the chest and one in the back. In a corner was another one, weeping and begging. I shot him in the head. I had this -- for want of a better word -- fantasy for several nights running, each time shooting more people with more and more and more anger. If one can be half-asleep and enraged, I was. Larry Doyle is a television and magazine writer who lives in Los Angeles. I never did anything, because I'm more or less sane, because it wasn't a very good plan, because I didn't have a gun. All I had was the impulse to kill. Two weeks ago, a 37-old man walked into a Jewish community center a few miles from my home and starting shooting. Two weeks before that, a 44-year-old man bludgeoned his wife and two small children, then walked into an Atlanta brokerage firm and started shooting. Nearly a month before that, a 21-year-old Illinois man got in his car and started shooting. Before that, two teen-age boys walked into their school and started shooting. Because he hated Jews; because he had lost money; because he hated Jews and Asians and blacks; because they were picked on by the jocks. We take solace from the horror or insanity or cold triviality of their motives; http://www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19990822mag-killer-impulse.html (1 of 3) [8/22/1999 9:13:55 PM] ENTERTAINMENT Restaurants Movies Music Theater & Dance Bars & Nightlife Art & Museums Books & Talks Sports Getaways SHOPPING Sales Events Coupons Yellow Pages CLASSIFIEDS Real Estate Autos Jobs COMMUNITY About Community Join a Group Create a Group Update a Group LIFE Food Home Fashion & Style Health & Fitness How to New York NEIGHBORHOODS Near My Home Near My Work Other Areas
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