A name in a news story at The Navy Times caught my eye just now:
A sailor whose wife was killed last year while he was deployed has apparently killed himself in his Virginia Beach, Va., apartment, police said Wednesday.
A final determination has yet to be made in the death of Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Scott Michael Dunn, 23. But based on the evidence, Virginia Beach police spokesman Jimmy Barnes said, a ruling of suicide is “pretty much where it’s going.”
Police responded to an emergency call late Sunday night made by a friend who was with Dunn at the time, Barnes said. The cause of death will likely be via gunshot, he said.
Dunn, who Navy officials said was on orders to transfer from Naval Air Force Atlantic to the carrier Theodore Roosevelt at the time of his death, was living in the same apartment complex – but not the same apartment – where his wife Shana Hight was found dead Sept. 13, 2010, Barnes said. The complex is located in the Shipps Corner neighborhood, just off the southwest corner of Naval Air Station Oceana, in the eastern part of the city.
Hight’s accused killer has yet to stand trial and probably won’t until early 2012, according to court spokeswoman Macie Pridgen. Gunner’s Mate Seaman Robert Lee Sadler, 22, is charged with one count of first-degree murder, one count of capital murder in the commission of abduction and capital murder in the commission of a sexual assault. If convicted of the capital murder charge, Sadler would face the death penalty.
Hight and Dunn had been married two years when she was killed.
I wonder if the dead sailor - - God rest his soul - - was named after the late dwarf actor Michael Dunn? Dunn the dwarf entertained me often when I was growing up:
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Have you been puffing on wacky weed, Robert? Speculating that this man's parents gave him the middle name "Michael" as tribute to a dwarf?
Or was this just an excuse to repost an article worthy of your beloved tabloids?
@wally: People have been known to give their kids strange names, Walt. And the young sailor was of an age that his parents likely grew up watching The Wild, Wild West and were probably asked on more than one occasion if they were related to Michael Dunn. Dunn was charismatic and handsome, and many of us remember him fondly.
My weed suspicion grows. It's not a strange name at all. And as charismatic and handsome as he may have been, your actor was not a household name by any stretch of the imagination.
I still don't see how this supposed connection justifies rehashing this whole sad story.
@wally: The fun thing about having your own blog is that you aren't required to justify a got-damned thing if you so choose. And I do so choose.
Well shoot, Bob. If you think every time I question the things you say I'm attempting to require you to do anything, then you deeply misunderstand my motivations. I'll give you a break for a while and leave you to your dittoheads.
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