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I was-tengentially-involved in such a murder. Guy went nuts, killed his wife, and started shooting the public about a block from my house.
I wrote this as catharsis a few days after the event:
Many of you have probably heard of the sniper attack in Moscow, ID last weekend. Moscow is well known to be a peaceful college town. People live here for the quality of life.
I live about a block and a half from where the shooting occurred.
This was my family’s experience.
It started about 11:30pm. I'd just finished some reading, and turned out the light to go to sleep. My wife and I heard a shot. And, believe me, folks, right from the git-go there was no mistaking this. It was loud. My wife said "Holy Sh$#. I think that was a gun."
Then we heard about 20 more shots. Bam bam bam. Real quick like. Turns out the killer had broken into a church, killed the janitor, and was firing into the adjacent sheriff’s office with an assault rifle.
After one burst of shots we heard a car horn. It kept going for at least half an hour. I think that’s when the deputy was killed. I'll never forget that sound. Never. That’s when we knew this was bad.
My wife and I made sure all the windows and doors were locked. Turned off any lights. We thought about going into the basement-probably should have. By some minor miracle the kids were still asleep. Since the shooting seemed to come from one place, we decided the shooter wasn't moving around.
We stayed put, and watched the windows.
My wife noticed that there were no flashing lights or sirens. Where were the cops?. What in the hell was going on? What could we do? What should we do? We were panicked and didn’t know how to respond.
More shots throughout this time. Bam bam bam.
We thought maybe it was an attempted jail break.
As we watched the windows a man ran down our street carrying a gun. What the hell was going on? Who was he? He must have been a cop, but we didn't know it at the time.
We decided to get away from the windows.
My wife and I were frantic. I don't know whether it was the cold or nerves, but I was shaking.
More and more shots pierced the night. Somehow I found myself counting them. Sometimes they came one at a time, more often in bursts, presumably as people were gunned down. I counted sixty before I lost track. My god, it seemed like they would never stop.
At about 12:30 they finally did.
We saw flashing lights at the sheriff’s office. It was an ambulance come to pick up the dead and wounded.
We tried to go back to sleep. At about 1pm the sniper committed suicide in the church sanctuary.
We didn’t find out what had happened until the next morning. Turns out the sniper wanted to commit suicide and take some people with him. He got his wish. He fired over 100 rounds. Three dead, three wounded and a community sick with grief.
I thank god for the brave police that responded and that my family is safe.
Oh yes, I remember that one. I either saw a re-enactment of it on one of the crime shows or I saw a movie? Whichever, that guy was a monster too! Kill adults all you want, kill your spouse but don't kill children!!!
um, what? murder is murder, age of the victim doesn't make it any worse a crime.
Bruce Pardo dressed up in a Santa Claus suit on Christmas Eve 2008 and showed up at a holiday party at the home of his ex-wife's parents in Covina, CA. He shot and killed his ex-wife and eight other family members, including children, and then killed himself. Really hard to understand. He sounded more deeply disturbed than anyone knew until the tragedy happened. Covina Holiday Murders - SGVTribune.com
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um, what? murder is murder, age of the victim doesn't make it any worse a crime.
Oh yeah, I remember that one too.
Yes, murder is muder and a crime but if you want to "take it out" on someone (murder), leave the children out of it! Yes, IMO murdering innocent children DOES make it a worse crime. Like I said, IMO.
Keim, what an awful experience to go through. I'm glad you and your family are safe.
I was born and raised in Australias "murder capital" (Adelaide), so have plenty to shake my head over and question. However, the killing of toddler James Bulger in England by two 10 year olds has really stayed in my mind over the years. Murder of James Bulger - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Physicopathic or socaiopathic murders will never maek sense to a normal person really.Listen to Mason all you want and he will never make sense really.
Any murder involving a parent killing a child is disturbing, but I also think any murder involing a child killing a parent is just as bad.
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but I also think any murder involing a child killing a parent is just as bad. 
