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Earlier that morning, Spooner had told Ald. Bob Donovan, whom he met inside a George Webb's restaurant, that burglars had taken about $3,000 worth of shotguns from his home two days earlier, that he suspected his neighbors and that he was frustrated police had made no arrests.

Donovan said he mostly listened as the men sat at the counter, and Spooner ate a breakfast of two pancakes, eggs and sausage.
He said he has known Spooner for years and knew Spooner had been a crime victim many times in the past and had even installed surveillance cameras on his home's exterior. He said Spooner mentioned that he was lonely since his wife died in 2004 and that he was dying of lung cancer.

"He seemed burdened, truly burdened," Donovan said Thursday.

Cryptic comment

He said Spooner also said something else - that "there are other ways to deal with situations" the police couldn't solve. Donovan said he didn't really take it as more than a passing comment at breakfast.
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According to court records, police seized 16 guns from Spooner's house in December 2006. According to his handwritten form to reclaim them, the guns were taken because a felon had been a guest at Spooner's house.

The guns included eight rifles, four shotguns and four handguns. A judge ordered them returned to Spooner in April 2007.

At the crime scene Thursday, detectives recovered two .32 caliber shell casings, one from the porch of Darius' house and one from the grass next to it. There were two rounds still in the gun, including one in the chamber with strike mark, suggesting the gun had misfired on an attempted third shot.

A man can just take so much. Things just build up and explode.

The boy's mother chimed in, telling Spooner he should just go back inside.

Yeah, she just "chimed in". I would love to hear what she actually said. We'd probably need an interpreter.

The old man was wrong to kill the kid. But I wonder if the cops checked the kid’s house for the missing weapons.