Hometown Drama

longtime lurker, first time poster
BUT

my mother was the one to witness this, from a second floor bathroom window, so this is a second hand recollection of the events.

so when i was a junior in highschool, my family lived in an apartment behind a restaurant, and the landlord and his wife owned the restaurants (one fancier restaurant and literally a sub shop)

i forget how the ownership of the restaurants worked, mainly because i was in high school and i’m kind of dumb, but i don’t believe the landlord owned the fancier one, i think the owner of the fancier restaurant was technically his wife and her father in law.

WELL. father-in-law and landlord (we’ll call them Jim and Doug respectively) did NOT get along. so much so that Doug, one time, long before this story, beat the brakes off of Jim so badly, he had to be helicoptered to a bigger hospital.

some time after my sister and i went to school, Jim was at the restaurant, doing business, whatever may be, and then— Doug arrives. there was a shipment coming in, big ass semi that essentially blocks the view from my (nosy) mother, except for their feet. they start loudly arguing, getting louder and louder, still facing each other. then— my mother hears a gun fire, once. Jim, in a fit of rage, shot and killed his son-in-law, Doug.

what makes this crazy, is that from the investigation, they found that the bullet used to kill Doug had Doug’s initials engraved on it.

AND HE WAS FOUND NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES.

but that’s all i got ✨