No idea of the outcome.
I wanted to find out more about what goes on in the area. This is something you see quite often in these communities where 'these things never happen' - you scratch the surface and you see exactly what does happen, which is rarely 'never' and usually quite eye-popping.
Like when I went to the Lost Hills LASD and asked about incidents in the area. The deputy said someone was shot and killed in his tent while camping but that was it. She actually told us there were no other incidents. We re-asked the question several different ways before she admitted that someone was shooting 'sporadically' at vehicles.
It's a culture of denial versus a culture of safety. You wave it away, it doesn't happen here. Every incident - whether it's Mitrice Richardson or Tristan Beaudette or MT - is a one-off 'freak' occurrence without connections to other incidents. But it's the culture of denial that prevents dots from being connected, from patterns being recognized and from even the most basic information being given to the public.
This first public forum is August 19. That's eight weeks after the murder of Tristan Beaudette.
Eight weeks. During those eight weeks, despite the promises of investigations and increased patrols, there've been more reports of gunshots and another body dump in the area. And apparently the only place that has a flyer posted about the reward/info is the Hindu temple.
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This map is a good resource for recent Malibu incidents.)
