It's murder at work...

[Lace Neil Singer]

Well, not literally, just on the way. The road near to where I work crosses a river; for the last few days, police have been dragging the river looking for a murder weapon. O_o It kind of creeps me out to think that a murder was committed soon after I drove home from work. Anyone else had a major crime committed near their workplace?

[digilight]

about 10 or 11 years ago I worked for Stop and Go (it has since become Circle K). The way it worked around here was they had a training store that was fully setup like a real store, this was in an adjacent suite to the real store (strip mall location) so the manager could train newbies while he also did his job. After a week at this training store they begin to bounce you around. First its a couple of weeks in the hood (this is a place where even 30 years ago you didn't want to drive thru it at night).

The store was on the outside of the barrio, but it was still rather nasty. On my first day there some one told the staff that the guy who was shot in the parking lot last week had died that day. Yup he died on my first day there. I actually lasted thru my training there, I was to stupid to toss in the towel. I did, however, meet a true OG (Original Gangster), he was about 45 or 50 and still had clout with the soldiers and other thugs. He told me to let him know if anyone F**ked with me. Surprisingly I never had any trouble there except for a beer run (they said those were so common to not even call the cops on 'em).

[Peppergirl]

Back when I worked in my dads laundromat, yeah. It was in a shady part of town near some projects, but most of the trouble was petty. This was back in the mid 1980s and I was about 16, I think.

Some shrieking that came from the general area of the row-houses across the street. Me and the dominos pizza manager ran in fromt of the store to see a woman being forcibly dragged by her boyfriend into the front yard. We both went back in to call 911, but the shrieking got more pronounced, and was mixed in with sounds from her kids, who were screaming from watching at the windows.

As I dialed the phone, he began to stab her repeatedly and then got up and was kicking her in the head. The domino's manager, brave soul that he was, ran out to help at this point, but the guy was too fast and ran away.

The woman died there on her front lawn, in front of her kids.

After I gave my statement to the police, I called my dad to come relieve me so I could go home.

I still shake when I think about it - over 20 years later.

[Jadedcarguy]

Nothing near work that I know of, but we recently had a murder where the body was dumped two blocks from my apartment. And I live in a nice neighborhood!

[VenomX]

Nothing at my work but...

I use to live a block away from a small convenience store. Around 2am one morning I happened to look out the kitchen window and seen tons of cop cars down there. I took a walk down and found out a guy walked in on a robbery and turned around and made it halfway out the door before he was shot in the back. He died right there in the parking lot.

[powerboy]

At my first factory job. It was years and years before my time. My grandfather was a supervisor at the plant. One of his coworkers had a heart attack, while he was operating the crane up above. Well they went and got the nurse. Since she was wearing a dress, she didn't want to climb the ladder to get to that guy. Well he died. The reason he died, was because the nurse didn't want anyone looking up her dress, as she climb the ladder. What a BITCH.

[VenomX]

Oh just remembered this!

I worked a few months at a plant that made plastic stuff.. garbage cans, christmas yard decorations etc...

They were putting a new mold into a machine and it slipped off the forklift and crushed a guy on the shift before mine. The machine was blocked off for ONE day and management got it back up and running. The guy died at the hospital right after it happened.

I quit a few days later. They were only worried about getting the machine back up and running. Just didnt sit right with me.

[draftermatt]

The former owners of the company we share a building with killed a man breaking into their business.

3 straight days these guys broke in, the police wouldn't do anything so they waited. Guys came in, he shouted "Don't move I have a gun" they started running towards him, he fired the one guy died.

Grand Jury threw out the case against them, but they had to settle out of court for "wrongful death"

The guy who pulled the trigger has never been the same. They sold the company and he got as far away as possible.

[Gerrinson]

Not so much near where I work, but near where I used to live.

I lived in the 'nice' part of town. But about two blocks away (as the crow flies) was the beginning of the 'bad' part of town.

I say 'bad' only because there was a two square block area of nice looking houses filled with drug dealers and wanna be gang bangers. In a city of 35,000 people, you don't have too much 'gang' violence. Anyway, there's a bar there, and my bedroom window on the back of the house faced it. Every summer there's 3 - 4 shootings and I could hear the shots quite easily while I was busy getting my electronic heroin...er, internet fix.

The last major killing in that area before I moved was a drive by. Apparently this girl had been beaten and raped by her boyfriend's friends. So, she turned them in to the cops. One of the guys I used to work/carpool with lived in that two block are and he told me the driveby was 'what she deserved' for turning them in. My response was and then I promptly found someone else with whom I could carpool to work.

[TryNotToBeThatOne]

Let's see, a couple years ago someone drove an SUV through a heavy pedestrian area outside my building. No major injuries & no deaths but the trial is ongoing.

The day I moved out of my last apartment some guy accidentally stabbed his buddy with a broken beer bottle. Yeah, lovely neighborhood that. I'm not counting the previous gun battle three buildings over because I only heard about it afterwards.

[Crossbow]

Closest I've had was at my last job. I called one of our factories (I was at the central office) and was told they were closed because one of the line workers shot his girlfriend and himself at the stoplight right outside the plant.

At my wife's last job (we now work for the same company) there was a murder/suicide right outside the employee parking lot. Happened in the middle of the night, but the early staff had to drive around the scene to get to work.

[Broomjockey]

At my first theatre, a gentleman had some kind of episode, causing him to become very confused, and start wandering the auditorium, and he ended up falling over the railing of the stairs to the entry ramp below, and I guess he died on the way to the hospital.

[crazylegs]

I used to work in Gloucester in a store about 300 yards away from cromwell street http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_West but only after it was discovered, apparetly the entire city was a media circus for months.

With my current job I occasionaly am on the periphery of events with major crimes but other than that... (the odd bit of scene guard, house to house that sort of thing)

[WanderingSaint]

We had a lot of gang violence in our mall when I was working at Wannabe Goth Store (still do, I just don't work there anymore ). During Christmas rush, there was a gift wrapping station just down the hall from where our store was. These packing stations are about a 10' by 10' enclosed by tables space with mettle polls set up to guid lines, that can have from five to fourteen girls crammed in there wrapping. AKA, lots of witnesses/accidental casualties.

A big fight broke out an exact WEEK before Christmas between four Asian Gangbangers. I say this, because most of you would invision blacks and/or whites, but here in Vancouver we instead have a increased problem with Asian and IndoCanadian youth.

I was out on a garbage run, so passed the wrapping station, PACKED with people, when all of a sudden, in the middle of the four lines crammed around it, screaming broke out and stuff started flying up above everyones heads like a Sunday cartoon!

It was chaos, everyone running and screaming. In the middle of it though, were two guys WAILLING at it with thier fists, until one of the other two guys decided it would be a GREAT idea to...

Pick up one of the line poles and beat the other guy with it.

There was blood. Ohh goodness was there ever!

The mall security FINALLY popped up, and the four guys scattered, one limping away with an obviously broken leg and no shoes, and the other running off with blood running down his front from his face...

.. and his jaw ripped open and hanging, broken.

They were all apprehended later, but still. Took them two hours to clean up the mess, and even then when I was leaving at night there were still streaks of red on the floor here and there.

It was encredibly gross. I'm quessy thinking about it right now.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I forgot about this; there was this woman who was murdered near the pizza place too; it was sad, she was a girl who had refused to marry this guy in an arranged marriage, and her parents murdered her and dumped her body in the front garden of this empty house. They covered it with bin bags and just left it.

Now, one of my collegues used to walk down that road to get to work; she walked right past that body for about a week before it was finally discovered. She didn't think it was anything but just a pile of rubbish; people were always dumping their crap in that garden, due to the house being empty. After she found out it was a body, she refused to ever walk down that road again. She started taking the long way round instead cuz it gave her the creeps to think that she'd walked past this girl's body for a week.