By: Latoya Peterson
Posted: March 31, 2011 at 12:10 AM
The slaying of a white worker at the upscale yoga store in a D.C. suburb was made for the media -- particularly once her black co-worker was charged with her murder. Four ways of looking at the reaction to the crime.
On the night of Friday, March 11, Jayna Murray and Brittany Norwood both entered a well-trafficked Lululemon Athletica clothing store in the tony suburb of Bethesda, Md., where they both worked. They'd returned there after hours because Norwood had left her wallet.
The following morning, Murray was dead and Norwood was found tied up in the back of the store, which specializes in yoga apparel. Police said both women had been raped. The crime terrified the Bethesda community, which feared that two brutal killers were in their midst. Stores shuttered early; proprietors installed security cameras in their businesses and hired security guards to walk employees to their cars at night.
