Evaluate the valence intensity of the following sentence, considering the mental state of the author. Present a score between 0 and 1, where 0 denotes extremely negative and 1 denotes extremely positive.
Sentence: "There was death in D.C. throughout the '80s and into the '90s, and there was death everywhere," said Starke, who was reared in New Rochelle, N.Y., and played at Columbia.