PC World editor slain at California home (AP/CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

PITTSBURG, California (AP) -- A senior editor for PC World Magazine was fatally shot in his home in what authorities said Wednesday was a drug-related attack.

Rex Farrance, 59, the San Francisco, California-based magazine's senior technical editor, was shot in the chest after four masked men broke into his home Tuesday evening, Pittsburg police said.
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"We have substantial reason to believe that the victim and his wife were involved in the possession and, potentially, the distribution of illegal narcotics," said Pittsburg police Inspector John Conaty, who declined to specify what type of drugs were involved.

The couple's son, Sterling Farrance, 19, blasted the police assertion that they were involved with illegal drugs, saying he grew and stored medical marijuana at the home with his parents' permission.

"I have a prescription. I'm a patient. It was medical," Sterling Farrance told the San Francisco Chronicle. "This one officer I remember at the house, he had this predisposition to think it was all illegal."
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/10/editor.killed.ap/index.html

[tridim]

1. Another pointless casualty of the war on -some- drugs. n/t

[Little Wing]

2. Eh

At first I thought, yeah, BULLLLLLSHIT!

But then the dope smoker in me whispered - what if it's a delayed effect of the dot.com crash, and PC World is going out of business.

That's why I don't listen to the dope smoker in me.

[5150]

5. PC mag had a white supremacist editor

Don't recall the man's name but he's listed at Southern Poverty Law Center. I'm not saying some grudge was settled but you know what they say-- revenge is a dish best served cold. PC mag and PC World were bitter rivals. Some hate the World and want to see it ended in their lifetime.

[madeline_con]

3. So, we're left hanging here....

No collaboration from the wife that the kid WAS a patient and had weed legally. Great! :eyes:

[eppur_se_muova]

4. A little more on the story from the SF Chronicle

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/11/BAGGSNGPVT1.DTL

Vantosh-Farrance was treated at a hospital and released and unavailable for comment. Her daughter, Kavita Johnopoulos, 31, also rejected police statements that her mother and stepfather were involved with illegal drugs.

She said she believes Rex Farrance, an avid hunter, was targeted for money and guns because he's a member of the Bay Point Rod and Gun Club.

"It's sick that they would do this, that they would give false information on what's going on in that home," Johnopoulos said.