Man killed while killing a mou 
2003 Reader Submission
Pending Acceptance
Quote from the story, "Remains of the Day," http://www.metrotimes.com/editorial/story.asp?id=4947
Root hardly pauses as she skims through the images, rattling off details of each case. There are suicides, auto accidents, murders. The photos are startling, showing the carnage of gunshot wounds and the gore of autopsies in cold, unblinking clinical detail. The students look on, mute. But Root is unruffled.
Coming to a set of pictures that show a man lying on the floor and a close-up of a dead rodent, Root glances up. “This is interesting,” she says “This guy, he had a gun and he went to kill a mouse. He hit the mouse with the butt of the gun and it went off and killed him. So there’s the mouse in the corner.”
The students look at each other, apparently unsure of how to respond. Finally, one ventures timidly: “Did he get the mouse?”
Root’s lips compress into a hard line that’s neither a smile nor a grimace. Her response is deadpan. “Yeah,” she says, flipping to the next page, “he killed the mouse and himself at the same time.”
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The story does not identify the Detroit-area man. Submitted on 05/31/2003
Submitted by:
Brian Hinson
Reference:
Metro Times, 5/28/2003
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