The Butcher
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So been weird here. Blazing heat wave has sucked the life out of me. Work super stressful for no real reason. So I completely slept through someone getting shot down the road from me. Crazy days folks. Crazy days.
The region of Rio I grew up in is a very traditional, sprawling middle-class residential neighborhood, albeit ringed by favelas. And the 80s and 90s were a period of serious unrest there as local drug dealers consolidated into warring alliances and came into frequent armed conflict with the police. Distant sounds of gunfire echoed into the night as we slept; my father taught me to tell what weapon was being fired from the sounds. And those who lived closer to the favelas might get their homes (if not themselves) shot by stray bullets.
These things still happen, BTW. The community hospital I work in lies a few hundred metres from the most violent favela in Rio and we've had OR windows broken by stray bullets.
Which is to say, I too have slpet through people getting shot at.