One of the Good Boys

Nathan Foster may not have been the intended target of Friday night's gunman according to the Sunday Times, which seems to have been alone among the national papers in sending someone down here to find out what went on.

This corresponds to what I was told by one of my neighbours yesterday, who told me when she had informed her teenage daughter who'd died the response was:

"But mum he was one of the good boys"

A Shooting at the End of My Street

I should have realised something was going on when my street, usually very noisy with kids, went very quiet around eleven last night. This morning as I headed for the gym, people were gathered in little clumps discussing what I had already heard on the radio: that another young man had been shot dead.

He's already been named to me but I shan't post that here at the moment. The bush telegraph says he was a nineteen year old youth worker murdered after he declined to intervene in a dispute over a gold chain.

There was very little police presence at the cordon this morning, and no senior officers on hand to brief the media. Perhaps efforts to reassure the jittery community, who are concerned about reprisals, may start on monday when the management return to the office.

My neighbours tell me guns are now freely available 'for peanuts'.

If there's been an arrest I haven't heard about it.