Paul had a basement apartment/room, perhaps this muffled the sound. Maybe everyone else was upstairs. We had a finished family room in the basement. With all the drywall and insulation, I could play music rather loudly in the middle of the night and my sleeping family never heard it.
Below is a detailed description of the house. It was posted as a comment
by "Goldenghost" on annarbor.com. Here is a link:
http://http://annarbor.com/news/crime/records-u-m-medical-student-died-of-gunshot-wound-to-neck-fired-by-another-peson/
"Having lived in the basement of Phi Rho Sigma (and on the second and third floor) many years ago this story sends an absolute chill down my spine. My condolences to Mr. DeWolf's family.
I can provide some information about the house. July is a month when Phi Rho Sigma (known to us as Phi Rho) is much quieter than normal. During much of the year there are about 32 medical students living in the house, most medical students (occasionally the house had to rent a room to a graduate student when it couldn't fill up with medical students) and roughly 50-50 male-female. However, during July and early August the house is much, much quieter. Most of the first year medical students are away on vacation and the new first year medical students have yet to arrive. So basically, you have mostly upper classmen in the house who are extremely busy doing clinical rotations, many of them pulling 24 hours shifts in the hospital and returning to the house exhausted.
The house has a cook, but if memory serves me, the cook is usually gone in the summer.
When I lived in Phi Rho, the front and back door security was not always super great. There is a parking lot at the back of the Tudor house and there is a back door that grants easy access to the first and basement levels. There are also ground level windows to most of the basement rooms. There is of course a front door as well and when I lived in the house in the late 90s the doors were unlocked during the day much. Most of the time someone ensured that the doors were shut and locked at night, but there were occasions, once in a blue moon, when a door was left open."
"More about the basement (I had to use an addendum as there is a character limit to the posts) : the basement level has 4 rooms if I recall, 3 singles and one double. The rooms are quite small. The basement also houses the study area which has multiple study areas and a computer. There is also a furnace, the laundry room and a storage area in the basement. There is also a very small library of medical texts. There is not a lot of value in the basement with the exception of the computer and of course, whatever people have in their rooms. The study area in the basement was used frequently (of course, we're medical students). Another thing about the basement at Phi Rho: it is a dark place...even during the day, the lighting is generally poor and the hallways are dark with the exception being the study room if people are in there using it.Anyway, this is all I can write right now. This is just awful. The feeling that "this could have been me" is an icky, awful feeling and I hope the police solve this tragedy. Again, my deepest condolences to the family."
"Actually, I think I am mistaken...there are only 2 single rooms and 1 double in the basement. One single room faces the back parking lot and the other single and the double face Catherine Street. The single basement room that faces the back parking lot has a window that looks out into the sunken cement stairs that lead down from the parking lot to the back door. When you open the back door you can go up a few stairs to the main foyer on the first floor or down a few stairs to the basement. Forgive me, it's been 13 years since I lived there."
This is NOT the same University...University of Michigan is in Ann Arbor and Eastern Michigan University is in Ypsilanti. About 15 minutes away from one another. Still...close proximity.
