Dear Confused and Concerned:
Murder in Mozart. Shooting in South Wheeling. Double murder in Belmont, Ohio.
And now a double stabbing and shooting in Moundsville that has resulted in two fatalities?
What. Is. Going. On?
It is the question we’ve all been asking ourselves the two past weeks because, thankfully, those kinds of stories are very rare here in our valley. But during the past two weeks, it’s been one after another and today’s incident in Marshall might not be the end of it.
But why? Is it because these days people now take guns and knives to a fistfight? Is it pandemic-induced anger? Do we respect human life anymore? Is the ongoing drug epidemic somehow at the root of these crimes?
What we do know is some of us have lost friends and family members and we don’t know why.
So, again, WTH?
Sincerely,
We’re Confused and Concerned, too.
