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Always Check References II

“I need to move out of my place before I viciously murder my roommates,” someone posted on Twitter on an account registered to “Zac Penton”. The next day, Zachary Dale Penton, 21, confessed to police in Gilbert, Ariz., that he had shot his roommate, investigators say. Daniel Garofalo, 41, who owned the house, was declared dead at the scene. The tweet has since been deleted, but others show that Penton complained in the past that he had difficulty finding people willing to live with him, and made various posts about guns. (RC/Arizona Republic) ...Tip: always “follow” your roommates on social media.
Original Publication Date: 28 August 2016
This story is in True’s book collections, in Volume 23.

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