Home sweet home? · 1:09am Aug 17th, 2015
Life seemed content to throw problems at us before we left on vacation, namely the power outages. Irritating and inconvenient, but survivable. Unfortunately, life had more waiting for us when we got home. Namely a plumbing leak that caused some seemingly superficial damage. Oh, and an active shooter in town.
Allegedly the man was "formerly incarcerated" and "from New York", and using a bolt-action rifle. I'm not sure if that's true, but it is known that several police vehicles recieved fire with officers pinned and that a SWAT team was called in. It's also known that there are three dead, one of whom was visibly DOA in the driveway, one of whom was inside (also DOA), and the shooter was also killed, allegedly by himself several hours later in the standoff.
What this means is that Monday will be spent by me trying to get ahold of my friends to make sure they weren't the victims (they haven't released to victims' names). That realistically means that I'll probably be pushing everything back a day, since I won't likely be able to properly do editing nor assemble content for Shadytrails. Hopefully I won't have to attend a funeral.
Edit: The weapon was later discovered to be "an assault rifle with two high-capacity magazines", and the victims were a local school employee and her brother. WHY DO PEOPLE NEED ASSAULT RIFLES?!