''Brother, they don't read signs''

June 15, 2004
Columbus Dispatch

25-year-old man slain in University District

A 25-year-old man was killed yesterday after being shot behind the wheel of a sport utility vehicle on a University District street.

Mark Warren, 25, had pulled over on E. 8 th Avenue near the N. 5 th Street intersection when a man on foot shot him at about 5:20 p.m. Police said he had stopped the SUV to talk to someone.

After the shooting, the navy blue Chevy Suburban hit a chain-link fence in a yard.

Witnesses said the driver had been shot in the head.

One woman, who lives a block away from the shooting scene, said she had heard five or six shots.

"I knew from the sound of it someone was dead," said Melony, a 24-year-old resident who didn’t want her last name used because "I have to live here."

She talked just outside the crime-scene tape, underneath a sign that read: "No violence against others. No violence against ourselves."

"Brother, they don’t read signs," she mumbled.

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