the cleveland area was hit with a large snow-storm right
before chrismas. though this maybe pretty to look at, the snow
and the sub-zero temps combined to make everyday things
outside very hard to deal with.

the december 2004 snowstorm gallery is here.

this monday there was a robbery that resulted in a double murder. two blocks from where i work and less than
a mile from home.

sad story to hear around the holidays, the
article is below courtesy of "guardian UK".

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Young Mother, Clerk Slain During Robbery

Wednesday December 15, 2004 9:16 PM

CLEVELAN (AP) - A young mother who went into a deli to buy baby formula
was shot to death in a holdup along with a store clerk. Police
searched for three men.

The robbers entered Tony’s Delicatessen on Monday and shot Jorge
Santiago, 36, as he fumbled with the register, police said.
They shot Rebecca Cordoves, 21, in the back as she ran away.

The robbers never got the register opened but fled with an
undisclosed amount of money from the deli owner.

Cordoves’ husband, with the couple’s infant and year-old daughters in
the car, had dropped his wife off in front of the deli during
a snowstorm, and then drove around the block. He found her
lying on the sidewalk.

“She was on her back, looking up at the sky,” Francisco Cordoves
said. “I remember yelling, `Call help! Somebody please
help!”’

Police followed footprints in the snow, but the tracks disappeared in
an alley.
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