Poll: do you personally know someone killed by a gun?

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28. 1977 friend murdered; 2000 brother suicide

In August 1977 a friend (Cathine Rada Brooks) and her next-door duplex neighbor were murdered in the neighbor's apt by a guy (Robert E Williams) that my friend didn't know, but the neighbor and I both did. I didn't know her neighbor, but we knew a lot of the same people.

Ironically Cathy and Williams had both babysat my toddler daughter so I could go to a weekly class (Cathy) or run errands (Williams - once)

When Cathy's 5-yr-old daughter woke up the next day and couldn't find her Mommy she called Cathy's BFF Annie who I've known since kindergarten.

Our parents were neighbors. I was at my parent's house when Annie's mom called to ask if I knew Cathy and tell them the news.

This article was published in December 1997 just before Williams was executed 20 years after the murders.

https://omaha.com/townnews/crime/families-of-robert-e-williams-victims-remember-the-lives-he-took/article_3f5fb46b-9f6d-5c3d-90e9-d194b0d2e2c5.html

Williams has his very own entry on Murderpedia.com
https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w1/williams-robert.htm