{"id":1343,"date":"2007-09-21T12:21:18","date_gmt":"2007-09-21T17:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1343"},"modified":"2007-09-21T12:36:23","modified_gmt":"2007-09-21T17:36:23","slug":"murder-number-35","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=1343","title":{"rendered":"Victim Number 35"},"content":{"rendered":"

Minneapolis’ 35th murder victim of this year<\/a> so far was a guy not a lot different than me.\u00a0 40something, kids, worked in the software racket, liked biking.\u00a0 Mark Loesch even lived in my old neighborhood, just a few blocks from where I lived way back when<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was apparently beaten to death while out on a bike ride late last Friday night.<\/p>\n

A local blogger and friend of Loesch’s remembers the victim<\/a>:<\/p>\n

I met him 12 years ago at an insurance company; I was a contractor, he was an employee. A manager casually mentioned to me that “this guy Mark really likes music, like you. You should go say hi”. So I dropped by, and we hit it off immediately: the awesome production skills of Trevor Horn was our first conversation.<\/p>\n

We were work pals for a while, but worked on very different projects, and then he went off to something new. A few months later, he called me up with a fascinating new opportunity: He was part of a team moving a Prescription Benefits company from Detroit to the Twin Cities, and they needed to build a team FAST: Did I want to help?<\/p>\n

So I joined him, and we worked very closely, at which point he invited me over for a party… so Pamela and I showed up. One week early! But he invited us in, and we had a great time for hours… maybe more fun than the “real party”… at least I remember our pre-party more. We carpooled for a year, and grew very close. He notoriously mixed me the “killer” eighth martini at my 30th birthday bash. I of course blamed it on him making it with Gin… not the obvious issue of it being the EIGHTH.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

With all the carnage in Minneapolis, it’s important to remember that there’s a story behind every death.\u00a0 Not all of them are as sympathic, on the surface, as Mr. Loesch’s, but behind even the most hardened banger or the most far-gone junkie there’s a father, a little sister or someone who loses a huge chunk of themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Minneapolis’ 35th murder victim of this year so far was a guy not a lot different than me.\u00a0 40something, kids, worked in the software racket, liked biking.\u00a0 Mark Loesch even lived in my old neighborhood, just a few blocks from where I lived way back when.\u00a0 He was apparently beaten to death while out on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crime-and-punishment","category-minneapolis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}