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Jan. 26th, 2004 07:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lady_kishiriaNow that the dust has settled, here's what happened:
The son of the couple next door shot and killed two people, but I didn't get the paper and don't know details. He apparently decided to take refuge in his parents' 'hood.
Steve, Matt, and I were watching the Sunday comedy lineup on Adult Swim when a knock came on the door. Steve went to get it and came back saying, "Now don't freak out, but that was the police. There's a man with a gun in the back yard."
The adrenaline kicked in, but I didn't freak out. I told him to lock the balcony door off the bedroom and said that if there were a man with a gun in the back yard, the best tactic would be to pretend we didn't know that. That's why I didn't turn the light on in my loft when I wrote my entry last night. Steve called Maxx to tell him not to come back, but it was too late so he holed up with us, as I said.
By 11 I knew I had to get ready for bed, so I got my shower and went to bed. Matt was still watching TV with Steve because the cops had the block sealed off. I turned out the light, and then the police helicopter (aka the Pork Chop) appeared. Now, if you've never had a pork chop overhead, it's like being in an episode of the X-Files. It shines light into your bedroom and there is a big roar over head. It scared Badira out of a year's growth.
By 12:30, the cops told Steve they'd lost the guy and were calling off the search.
No idea what is going on beyond that, but I doubt the perp will come back here. I feel bad for his parents though; they must be embarrassed as all hell.
The son of the couple next door shot and killed two people, but I didn't get the paper and don't know details. He apparently decided to take refuge in his parents' 'hood.
Steve, Matt, and I were watching the Sunday comedy lineup on Adult Swim when a knock came on the door. Steve went to get it and came back saying, "Now don't freak out, but that was the police. There's a man with a gun in the back yard."
The adrenaline kicked in, but I didn't freak out. I told him to lock the balcony door off the bedroom and said that if there were a man with a gun in the back yard, the best tactic would be to pretend we didn't know that. That's why I didn't turn the light on in my loft when I wrote my entry last night. Steve called Maxx to tell him not to come back, but it was too late so he holed up with us, as I said.
By 11 I knew I had to get ready for bed, so I got my shower and went to bed. Matt was still watching TV with Steve because the cops had the block sealed off. I turned out the light, and then the police helicopter (aka the Pork Chop) appeared. Now, if you've never had a pork chop overhead, it's like being in an episode of the X-Files. It shines light into your bedroom and there is a big roar over head. It scared Badira out of a year's growth.
By 12:30, the cops told Steve they'd lost the guy and were calling off the search.
No idea what is going on beyond that, but I doubt the perp will come back here. I feel bad for his parents though; they must be embarrassed as all hell.
