The same day the police tape was removed from the shooter’s block, local Maddy Callicot, 18, decided to ride her bike down the street. She said there is just a different feeling in the air.
“You can tell that the vibe is different,” she said. “Definitely something is off.”
She, like most neighbors around the shooter, had never spoken to him, or his family, but chatter about the gunman has haunted her everywhere she goes – back home, the grocery store, at her job at a local country club. Everyone is talking about it, she said.
“Definitely terrifying that we are in the spotlight, but people seem to be treating it respectfully,” she said.
Right across the street from the gunman’s house is Eddie Stack.
On a recent evening, he sat on his porch watching the Pittsburgh Pirates game and drinking a beer as his English Black Lab named Lady ran around the yard.
He described the gunman as “a quiet nerdy kid” who never went out of his way to chat with neighbors.
“Nobody I talked to really knew the family, and we never met the kid,” he said, referring to the shooter.
He said Bethel Park will move past this dark chapter. When asked why, he offered a pithy reply.
“Because we’re resilient,” he said.
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