Meet the neighbors
Published: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 3:01 p.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 at 3:03 p.m.
Name: Kristine Floyd
Occupation: Daycare employee
Lived in neighborhood: 24 years
Quote: “What scared me the most about the incidents is that residents weren’t being taken care of. We needed to put our foot down, so I started a petition to have the family evicted.”
Name: Mary Pheil
Occupation: Retired, former pre-school teacher
Lived in neighborhood: 19 years
Quote: “After the shooting, families that live on nearby San Rafael Drive wouldn’t even walk over to see us, but everything eventually settled down.”
Name: Charles Riedmuller
Occupation: Retired, former director at California Maritime Academy
Lived in neighborhood: 33 years
Quote: “Most residents have been here for a long time. We often hear about things like shootings happening in other neighborhoods, but not here, so it shook us up a bit.”
Name: Ken White
Occupation: Retired, former AT&T employee
Lived in neighborhood: 34 years
Quote: “These were the first incidents that have ever happened around here. Afterward, no one would go walking, and no one would go near the house where they happened.”
Name: Liz Youngberg
Occupation: Retired, former bank employee
Lived in neighborhood: 35 years
Quote: “This is a closely knit neighborhood, although not quite as much as when the children were little. We interacted a little more then.”
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