Pasadena woman facing eviction is found dead in burning home

While the U.S. bails out rich folks.....


Pasadena woman facing eviction is found dead in burning home


Dunn, 53, told neighbors that she would rather die than leave.



Father kills family and himself,...Early Monday, the day of her expected eviction, firefighters pulled her body out of the house as it burned. She apparently had set it on fire before shooting herself in the head, authorities said.

"We knew it was going to happen," said Steve Brooks, who lived across the street. "It was nobody's fault; it was everybody's fault."

As Brooks watched the flames, he noticed that Dunn had left two of her plants on his porch, along with a note: "Please take good care of us or find us a good home." She also had left several inexpensive toys, along with the name and address of a charity organization.


On Sunday night, Dunn spent hours moving boxes and packing her car, said next-door neighbor Scott Harden. He knew about the foreclosure and eviction, and Dunn's suicide threat, so he "was on red alert."

About 5 a.m. the next morning, Harden said he smelled smoke and saw flames in Dunn's house in the 1000 block of North Wilson Avenue, and immediately called 911.

But Harden said he and other neighbors thought Dunn had already left. He said they were stunned to learn that she was still inside.

"When they brought her out, we were all really surprised," he said.

The suspected arson fire engulfed the living room and dining room, but firefighters were able to douse the flames within 15 minutes, said Pasadena Fire Marshall Mark Fasick. Firefighters found Dunn in bed in a back room, with a gun lying nearby.

Firefighters tried to revive Dunn and took her to Huntington Hospital, where she was declared dead, Fasick said.

A longtime friend of Dunn was living in her garage at the time of the fire but was unhurt, authorities said.

The stucco house and garage were crowded with newspapers, books and clothes, making it difficult for firefighters to make their way through, Fasick said.

The Los Angeles County coroner's office plans to perform an autopsy this week to determine if Dunn died from the gunshot wound, but Pasadena police Lt. John Dewar said that is the most likely cause and that the death is presumed to be a suicide.

"She was made aware of Monday's eviction," he said. "That may have been what precipitated the arson and death."

Police are still trying to determine the history of the house's ownership.

Neighbors said Dunn's grandparents owned the house before it was passed down to her parents and then to Dunn and her sister.

A few years ago, neighbors said, Dunn and her sister took out a loan on the house but couldn't repay it and had to sell.

The new owner, who let Dunn continue to live there and pay rent, lost the home to foreclosure in May, neighbors said. Washington Mutual bank was listed in property records as the current owner.

Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department officials showed up on Dunn's doorstep a few weeks ago and then again Friday to tell her that she had until Monday to pack up her stuff and go, neighbors said.

poor lady

i'm afraid that in months to come we will see more violent acts. people killing themselves, or people killing other people. i hope it won't be that way but i can't see a way around the fact that people who have lost everything have nothing more to lose

XxAxX said:

poor lady

i'm afraid that in months to come we will see more violent acts. people killing themselves, or people killing other people. i hope it won't be that way but i can't see a way around the fact that people who have lost everything have nothing more to lose

IrresistibleB1tch said:

XxAxX said:

poor lady

i'm afraid that in months to come we will see more violent acts. people killing themselves, or people killing other people. i hope it won't be that way but i can't see a way around the fact that people who have lost everything have nothing more to lose

sadly, you're probably right. now more than ever, we need to take care of our family, friends and neighbors, to prevent these situations.

Why not BAILOUT the real people who need it?

Graycap23 said:

Graycap23 said:

"It was nobody's fault; it was everybody's fault."

This line just sticks out to me. It speaks the truth of just about every societal wrong and evil one can think of. Problems like the current economic crisis aren't the fault of any one person -it's the collective fault of everybody. From the governments who just let shit fall as it may, to the banks and companies that overextended their resources, to the people that failed to plan for disaster, to those that saw this coming and did nothing, and right on down to individual citizens who've for years now been only looking out for "Number One" to the detriment of all others. It was a mass happening. I'm afraid this lady is just going to be one in a long line of our victims. Because this situation could have been averted, we all pulled that trigger and we all lit that match.

It's not that The Joker's gay. What he is, is Batsexual. He'd be whacking it to Batsy whether our hero had girl parts or boy parts underneath that rubber.

XxAxX said:

Graycap23 said:

Why not BAILOUT the real people who need it?

because the rich enjoy eating the poor?

seriously, the reason imo is that, if we, the little guys, didn't have other things like hunger, bills to pay, shelter to find, etc. we might actually join forces and rebel against the mo&fos who are hoarding the planet's resources.

think about it. there are more of us than there are of them. why are we fighting among ourselves over trivia when there are real issues to be addressed?

Meanwhile rich executives have their nails done with welfare money we gave them.

Graycap23 said:

that's sad that it had to end this way for her.

meow85 said:

Sad that things are this way

XxAxX said:

IrresistibleB1tch said:

sadly, you're probably right. now more than ever, we need to take care of our family, friends and neighbors, to prevent these situations.

i know. the homeless shelters, the animal shelters, the food shelves in minnesota are currently overwhelmed by the demand. and as winter approaches it can only get worse.

guess we all have to try harder.

Mach said:

XxAxX said:

i know. the homeless shelters, the animal shelters, the food shelves in minnesota are currently overwhelmed by the demand. and as winter approaches it can only get worse.

guess we all have to try harder.

2 of our local animal shelters can not accept anymore at this time - they are going to bump their "putting down day" to 2 days a week instead of one to try to make room for incomming animals

Graycap23 said:

very sad