The followups on the victims are always formulaic: "Spring Street is lined by two-story houses with picket fences. It's a place where nobody thinks anything horrible could happen ..."
LOL does he write for The Tampa Bay Times?
(The Times does that kind feature-y crime stories all the time, and it is often written like this. I know other reporter's do this at other places, but TBT was the first that comes to mind.)