02/18/2010

I had meant to come online this evening and write a big update entry, seeing as how it’s been two week’s since I’ve posted an entry, but I just can’t get my mind to work in that direction right now. 

On my way home from work, on the turn to my mom’s house, there were so many police cars with lights blazing that I couldn’t see the road.  Firefighters, ambulances, people standing in the middle of the highway…

One of the locals had taken his estranged wife hostage, shot her because she wouldn’t take him to their children, and the police were forced to kill him when he wouldn’t put down his gun.  They say he had a plan to kill both his kids and his wife before his upcoming trial date (because of a drug arrest). 

I used to sell him cigarettes every day when I worked at the gas station. 

Now his family is already causing trouble, trying to take the children, even though a friend of the mother’s had hidden them before the shooting.  The mom should be okay; he shot her in the stomach, but she was talking to the cops before they flew her to the hospital, and she’s in stable condition. 

I’m just….unnerved and upset that such horrible violence can happen 1/10th of a mile from where my children sleep at night.