Hitting Close To Home

So much of our reaction to crime is a matter of proximity.

The guy had paint-spattered pants and a baseball cap on, smoking in the doorway to his apartment so he wouldn’t foul the air inside. The subject of our conversation was foul enough, I guess.

Two men had shot each other dead in a robbery gone wrong in his apartment building the night before. They opened fire at 7:30 p.m., no more than one hundred feet fro…