Yes, it happened just a few houses down around the corner. Sad thing is that there is a house on that block that routinely throws loud obnoxious parties until all hours of the night, so most of the neighbors on my street thought nothing about the noise and yelling coming from around the corner. My brother slept through the whole thing and woke up with his front lawn taped off as a crime scene. They couldn't find the knife and the cops were widening the search area. I've since heard they have found the knife but still don't know who the killer is. 
Its sad that people don't know their neighbors or help each other out the way they used to. I only know as many of mine as I do because my husband is a magnet. People just gravitate to him and he can make friends with just about anyone. Dave cuts the grass of 2 of my parents' neighbors and as a result he knows more of my parents' neighbors then they do, and they've lived in the house for over 40 years!
My daughter knew the boy that had been killed. He had been her reading buddy when she was in 2nd and he was in 5th. So she's a bit upset.
 Oh and are you ready for this? We just found out that an elderly woman had her neck slit only a few blocks from my parents. No one seems to know why or who killed her. All on the same day! I'm beginning to think the extreme heat was driving people crazy in my normally peaceful area. Thank God the heat's finally broken.
Ida