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Yesterday, at twelve-noon, a call came into Berchest police quarters, 2nd command, that John Snid - known columnist and syndicated writer - was lying hurt in his apartment.
Ten minutes later when paramedics arrived on the scene, he was dead. Around his chest was a very large boa snake, a household pet. He had been suffocated until dead by the snake, which had apparently escaped its twenty-meter cage while Snid was busy writing for his weekly column.
As police continue to investigate this unfortunate death, questions rise about the possibility of foul play. Several fans of Snid are vocally saying that the death is an Imperial Plot, an attempt to silence the man who was creating waves about the Empire. Others say the Republic did away with him, in an attempt to silence his increasingly asinine claims.
The police have no official comment about the rumors, but one anonymous officer was heard to have said "Crock. The way the man died ... hardly possible it was anything but an accident."
More information here as it becomes available, on the Anthos Network.
