“Gun Death” Robbery

Here’s a messy one.

Police on Friday charged a Smithfield man with murder, burglary and armed robbery after his 74-year-old neighbor was found dead in her home the day before….Salentine, 34, is accused of killing Patricia Stevens, whose son found her body about 5 p.m. Thursday at her house at 309 N. 3rd St. Police Lt. Keith Powell said she died from “blunt-force trauma,” though he declined to elaborate, citing the ongoing investigation. Salentine was arrested at a gas station on U.S. 701 near Four Oaks after investigators linked him to suspicious activity in Stevens’s bank account.

He also faces three felony counts of uttering a forged instrument — or knowingly using a forged document such as a check.

When its a man in his prime and an older woman, it doesn’t take a gun to generate a dead body. Why do some think that only “Gun Deaths” are worth our attention? What’s wrong with them?

h/t Sean