Talked about the Saturday night shooting on the radio this morning. You can hear that here. I’ve gotten out of the habit of listening to myself, so I won’t listen with you. And I’ve talked so much, too much, about the shooting on Twitter that I don’t care to do too muchh of it here.
This is all so unbearably sad. Three kids dead. (One of them a father of two, another a father of one it seems.) All of them with their lives ahead of them. Three more shot. One in critical condition with a head wound. All of them under 21. A suspect at large. And there is no good reason for any of it.
Chief of the Auburn Police Department, Tommy Dawson, holds up a picture of suspect Desmonte Leonard for the media:
The story goes on. The manhunt has shifted to Montgomery, the hometown of the police’s suspect. There are nine agencies involved in the search. Two have been arrested for hindering prosecution. We spent the night watching television, thinking they’ve got the suspect holed up in a house in east Montgomery. (Update: No one was there, after eight hours of waiting, surrounding and inch-by-inch searching in a tear gas-filled attic.)
So several families are in the height of grief. A community wonders how this could happen int heir home. A person is on the run. Some stories you just wish didn’t happen, but this one has only gotten started.
