R.I.P. Scout26
Yet when neighbors relayed how the deaths happened, they offered explanations involving a different kind of occult transformation: the supernatural potency of the .38 to change people into unethical agents. With each subsequent death, lore intensified around the gun, with people surmising that "touching" this gun could portend death. "Ever since they touched the gun, those poor young boys were not the same," said one community member. Residents spoke about the gun as if it were an amulet that could change otherwise good people and what they did in the world.
Henri was acting as anyone with a gun like that would. "You become a hothead. You feel force inside the body, and you think you can do anything. ... He'll go hustle. Rob people.
