Nothing was amiss when Kunz walked her dog about 4:45 a.m., she said. But later, one of the women next door called her at work to say the girl’s boyfriend had been shot.

“I was shocked,” Kunz said. “People walk this neighborhood day and night, and nothing ever goes on around here.”

Shots and yelling

Vicki Englund, a former state representative and a current member of the Lindbergh School Board, lives kitty-corner from the shooting and heard the gunshots. “You think it’s a car backfiring,” she said. “What else could it be?”

She said she didn’t see what happened, but, “I heard a couple shots, then a pause, then I heard 10 or so in a row and someone yell, ‘Get back in the house,’ or, ‘Are you gonna get back in the house?’ in a very strong, controlled voice.” She added, “And then a few more shots.”

A woman who lives nearby said she’d seen the car where Forster had been sitting on Arno all night, and the night before.

Several houses from the scene, Karen Thevel was awakened by her daughter about 5:05 a.m., saying she thought she heard five or six shots, then two or three more.