&gt; Edit 3: Let me just say that it really does hurt that it happened to a place I consider home. I may not have been born here but I do love this city and it has and will always be a part of me. It's just so upsetting that it would happen to a place that isn't even a 5 minute walk from where I live and to my fellow niners, stay strong.

Best friend and I graduated from college, he went to grad school at UNCC, and I lived with him and delivered pizza for a year. I never attended UNCC, but we lived next to the Food Lion across from campus, and I worked for Papa Johns there, so I spent plenty of time on campus whether it was making a delivery or meeting my roommate for lunch or whatever.

And all that was years and years ago, and it still feels like this happened in my back yard somehow. I'm not a niner and don't live there anymore, but I can remember what that felt like, you know?