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Apr 5, 2009 11:16 am US/Eastern
Friends Of Shooting Suspect Stunned By Incident
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Richard Poplawski
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Some people who knew 23 year-old Richard Poplawski say they had a feeling something like this could happen.
Ed Perkovic, who has known him most of his life, says he got a call from Poplawski during the siege.
"I got a call whenever I was at my job at Children's Hospital and I heard gunfire and he said 'Eddie, I'm gonna die today and he said tell your family I love them. Tell your mother I love her' and he hung up the phone and I heard gunfire in the background right before he hung up," said Perkovic. "He always told me if something like that ever happened he would commit suicide before he would give himself up and I came here immediately to negotiate… He sounded like he was in pain like he got shot."
In 2005, a girlfriend of Poplawski filed a protection from abuse order against him, claiming that during an argument he grabbed her by the hair and threatened to kill her.
But others who went to high school with him were stunned that he could be involved in such a thing.
"Brilliant, though, smart. The brain on this kid," said Jeff Loeffler. "He could have done anything he wanted I believe if he would have applied himself and really pushed himself. God only knows what twisted his mind so bad. I don't know."
In the end everyone agrees Saturday's event was tragedy for everyone involved.
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