About 7Am Friday the 13th I was sitting in the kitchen sipping a coffee and watching the local news. They had a story about a small town up in New Hampshire that only has 7 officers on their police force. They had responded to a domestic violence call and the Chief of Police was shot and killed, and two other offers were shot. In the melee both the man & woman in the house were killed. And the saddest part of the whole story, the chief of police, who died, was already scheduled to retire in ten more days.

At about 7:30 we heard a police car race down our street, then two more, followed by an ambulance and a firetruck and within about 5 minutes they broke into the news broadcast for a live report of a breaking story. About 1 mile from our house a man had run out of a house and ran down the street shooting indescriminantly with a semi automatic weapon. The man ran down three or four houses then went inside a house where he continued to shoot out the windows towards a gas station across the street, and towards a school buss loaded with handicapped kids. Fortunately the buss driver was able to get all the kids off and to safety, but the man kept on shooting. Now shooting towards a gas truck at the gas station. By this time he had shot a window out of the gas station and shot a couple cars parked at the pumps. By this time there were dozens of cops on the scene and they were shooting into the house, City patrolmen, the SWAT Team, State Cops, all shooting. When the man in the house finally stopped shooting they sent a robot into the house to see what was happening, then the cops entered the house and found the man dead, but they also found a woman and her son who were okay.

Now that mess started at 7:30AM and the shooting was over by about 9AM but they still had the road closed until nearly midnight as they investigated the crime scene and as luck would have it, that crime scene was right at the end of one of the most active Interstate onramps in this area, so it had all the local traffic snafu'd as ppl rushing to work had to select an alternate route. In fact, traffic was a mess here all day between the road closed and the rubber kneckers who felt they just had to come see what was happening.