[Blaster86]

Across the street from one of the stores I run and in the community I call home.

Thankfully all my staff were safe, and so far I haven't talked to anyone who has been directly affected, but Lynn Valley is an incredibly tight community. I am dreading the fact that one of the women passed as she will likely be known in the community and it is heart breaking in a place that is so interconnected.

It was stunning how hard this is to process when it happens so close. At first I just didn't believe it. Then I couldn't process how serious it was. Lynn Valley is not immune to violence, I thought. Then I started getting calls from friends and family asking if I was okay. It went from a stabbing to four people stabbed to six. At this point I packed up my stuff and b-lined for the store. On Thursday I had called the police about young man walking up and down Lynn Valley road talking about how he was going to stab himself or someone else and I was incredibly worried that it was related and I had guilt about not following up with the police. The suspect was not someone I recognized, thankfully, but I definitely understand why some people are such hawks about other people's business if it looks strange or out of place now. I used to sit in judgement of those people and wonder why they can't just mind their own business.

Obviously as any news comes out from the community I will update here, though it will likely mostly be about grieving the woman who passed.