[via Daily Swarm]

Or so went the headline of the Daily Swarm post today. A 20-year-old Virginia Tech student Morgan Harrington went missing in October after attending a Metallica concert in Charlottesville, VA, and was found this past Tuesday morning in a farm field about 10 miles from the music venue. Police are now treating the case like a homicide. Read the account from Live Daily:

“According to reports in October, Harrington (pictured) left John Paul Jones Arena during a Metallica concert and later called her friends inside the venue to tell them she could not get back in. The arena, like many concert venues, doesn’t allow re-entry during shows. Lt. Joe Rader of the Virginia State Police told the Charlottesville Daily Progress newspaper at the time that Harrington phoned her friends from outside the venue, telling them not to worry and she would try to find a way to get home.”

While this is very sad and tragic news, I’m not sure the no-rentry policy is to blame. No-rentry policies don’t kill people, people kill people. No-rentry policies are likely put into place to help keep random people on the street from wandering into a crowded venue, where it’d be much harder to prevent a crime. Let’s see if they can find the psychopath that killed this young woman, and ask why they were free on the streets in the first place.