Erik was one of my coworkers back when I worked at The Office Center at Sears… He was definitely one of the cooler people there, and we got along real well… We hung out outside of work, I went to parties at his house (I think went to one as well), and I tried to check in on him when I got back in town… He continued to work in retail, so it was sometimes a struggle to track down what store he was working in at the time

This morning, at the Funcoland in Roxbury/Ledgewood, Erik was opening the store with a coworker. Both were struck down by bullets fired by an unknown other. Erik was recently married and was also a father… I hadn’t seen him in a year or two.