Woman Stabbed To Death By Homeless Black Man

    The New York Post reports that 65-year-old Rita Loncharich was shopping at a Florida Barnes & Noble book store when she "was stabbed in the back without warning by Antonio Moore, 40, who came to Florida just days earlier". She lived long enough to call her husband, but was pronounced dead an hour and a half later. Moore had arrived on a bus from Georgia just a week prior to the murder (i.e., some other town or city gave him a bus ticket to make him somebody else's problem) and had no prior interaction with Loncharich. "He instead blamed a psychotic 'internal build up' that made him pick on 'the closest person in the store,' investigators said in the affidavit." He is being charged with premeditated first-degree murder. 

    Just another reminder that you have to be aware of the people around you, especially if they do not "belong". Too many homeless suffer from mental illness and, for that reason, should be avoided. I don't know if there is much this woman could have done once the attack started, but if she had noticed him before he initiated the attack, she could have moved away from him, made ready to draw a weapon (if she had one), or even left the store.