Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder

- rojo
  co-founder
- - Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/3/2012 11:53PM
  - rojo
    co-founder
  - Sad news to report here.
    
    Eric Kweder, who was 9th in 1995 as an 11th grader (one spot ahead of fellow 11th grader and eventual 2004 US Olympian Jonathon Riley) and then 17th as a senior, has been arrested for killing his landlord.
    
    Kweder has popped up in a number of LetsRun threads over the years:
    
    https://www.google.com/search?q=Eric+Kweder+site%3Aletsrun.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
    
    More info on the crime here:
    
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/..._blog.html
    
    Runners World is reporting that Kweder twice attended the "University of the Cumberlands in Lexington, Kentucky, where he holds the school records for the 3000-meter steeplechase (9:05) and 5000 meters (14:34)."

- Exucrunner
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 3:08AM - in reply to rojo
  - Exucrunner
  - wow..thats sad news indeed i just talked to him about 2 days ago and he was in high sprits ready to resume his running..i hope its not true!!!

- survey says
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 3:51AM - in reply to rojo
  - survey says
  - The article linked describes the victim as Kweder's roommate, not landlord.

- Thats nuts
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 3:54AM - in reply to rojo
  - Thats nuts
  - Can't tell you how many times I saw the guy.
    
    One of my coaches knew him fairly well. The dude must have snapped or something.

- rebelscum
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 4:38AM - in reply to rojo
  - rebelscum
  - Sounds like it could be a lovers' spat (or not).

- nopww
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 4:54AM - in reply to rojo
  - nopww
  - sad

- Thats nuts
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 5:29AM - in reply to rebelscum
  - Thats nuts
  - rebelscum wrote:
    Sounds like it could be a lovers' spat (or not).
    3 dudes living together in their 30's in gay friendly area. you decide.

- H1V VH1
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 5:44AM - in reply to Thats nuts
  - H1V VH1
  - He had to have been gay. Franconia is a gay-heavy area outside of DC and many gay houses pop up with numerous young men living together.
    
    Yu could have been his roommate, landlord and gay lover.
    
    Obviously, guy had major anger management issues. Maybe Yu said he was going to "out" him?
    
    Tragic situation.

- So Creepy
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 5:45AM - in reply to Exucrunner
  - So Creepy
  - Exucrunner wrote:
    i just talked to him about 2 days ago
    Consider yourself lucky. You escaped death. He had already killed a man at that point. You talked to a killer.

- concerned citizen
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 5:54AM - in reply to rojo
  - concerned citizen
  - I hope parents around the country now see what running may lead to.

- B. Costas
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 7:09AM - in reply to rojo
  - B. Costas
  - What I believe is, if he didn't possess/own a blunt object, Yu would be alive today

- merrr
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 7:25AM - in reply to rojo
  - merrr
  - rojo wrote:
    
    Runners World is reporting that Kweder twice attended the "University of the Cumberlands in Lexington, Kentucky, where he holds the school records for the 3000-meter steeplechase (9:05) and 5000 meters (14:34)."
    University of Cumberlands is not in Lexington. It's in Williamsburg, KY almost 2 hours away.
    
    https://maps.google.com/maps?saddr=Lexington,+KY&daddr=University+of+cumberlands&hl=en&sll=37.6,-95.665&sspn=45.871627,107.138672&geocode=FQh0RAIdXJP2-ikl65zMKURCiDHdT4yQQYPwhA%3BFS2RMAIdHsX7-iF5qrIjQMMhYilTpwTul-ZciDF5qrIjQMMhYg&t=h&mra=ls&z=9

- Flagpole
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 7:53AM - in reply to rojo
  - Flagpole
  - man, what a sad story. I remembered his name because I lived in the DC area in 1995, and he along with Sharif Karie were the great high school runners during my time in DC.

- worst poster
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 7:58AM - in reply to merrr
  - worst poster
  - Hey, take it easy and look on the bright side, the number of people who have ever heard of the
    University of the Cumberlands doubled based on this thread alone.

- Tyrone Greene
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 7:59AM - in reply to rojo
  - Tyrone Greene
  - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ0up_MjsLk
    
    OK tastless but I had to

- Scoonie
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 9:43AM - in reply to
  - Scoonie
  - This guy sounds like a lost soul. Not a lot of direction in his life.
    
    What did he do right after high school?

- wowwwww
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 10:02AM - in reply to Scoonie
  - wowwwww
  - I knew him for awhile. Definitely a weird kid and as others stated before no real direction. He seemed nice enough though.

- Turd ball
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 10:05AM - in reply to H1V VH1
  - Turd ball
  - H1V VH1 wrote:
    He had to have been gay. Franconia is a gay-heavy area outside of DC and many gay houses pop up with numerous young men living together.
    
    Yu could have been his roommate, landlord and gay lover.
    
    Obviously, guy had major anger management issues. Maybe Yu said he was going to "out" him?
    
    Tragic situation.
    Actually that makes a ton of sense. Doesn't justify murder though.
    
    I have a bad feeling this will be another 'running' thing on the national news.

- PRRRR
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 10:07AM - in reply to Scoonie
  - PRRRR
  - He went to Brevard I think after HS, but then dropped out there and went into the Marines. After the Marines he went to another NAIA school somewhere in the west/mid-west.

- Tyrannosaurus Rexing
- - RE: Two-Time Foot Locker Finalist Arrested For Murder 12/4/2012 10:13AM - in reply to B. Costas
  - Tyrannosaurus Rexing
  - B. Costas wrote:
    What I believe is, if he didn't possess/own a blunt object, Yu would be alive today
    Yes, since is a known fact that people can be murdered (or commit suicide) in ways that do not involve guns, stating that guns are a huge problem in this country and lead to violence is stupid.
    
    Great point and hilarious satire! You need to be hired by late night comedy or maybe the Onion with wit like that.