Tonight is a perfect example of why my household is armed. I’m getting ready for bed when I hear pop, pop, pop. Sounded like 16 .22 shots but they could be a nail gun, maybe. I mean, I shoot .22 at the range all the time and that’s what it sounded like but you don’t want to instantly assume the worst, you know. I text my wife (you may know she is a LEO for a different city and on shift right now) and she confirms that the local PD is responding to a shooting right behind my back fence. Which, at the moment has a full section down and the shooter was last reported running towards my back yard. My house. Where my 18-month-old beautiful baby boy is peacefully sleeping.
Mind you, I live in a gated community with million dollar waterfront homes. My house isn’t that big but it is a good house nonetheless. You wouldn’t expect to encounter a shooter running from a shooting using your back yard to escape. But it happened tonight.
Luckily for me, and the anonymous bad guy, someone thinks they saw him getting into the passenger side of a car that left the premises. One thing is certain though, it would’ve been a bad scene had this person entered my house. This is why I have an armed household. The police showed up 5-10 minutes after the gunshots, as you’d expect. The suspect seems to be long gone. I can see the local PD from my bedroom window as they are processing the crime scene. They’ve found .22 caliber casings (prize to me for the recognition, I guess). Poor CID guy got called out. Hopefully he’s getting overtime. Hopefully they find this asshole.
As an aside, the fence is owned by the HOA and has been down for months. We’ve been back and forth with the HOA about it. I texted the HOA president tonight and he said that it should be replaced in the next 30 days. Might have to send my wife to the next HOA meeting with her filter disengaged.
Mind you, I live in a gated community with million dollar waterfront homes. My house isn’t that big but it is a good house nonetheless. You wouldn’t expect to encounter a shooter running from a shooting using your back yard to escape. But it happened tonight.
Luckily for me, and the anonymous bad guy, someone thinks they saw him getting into the passenger side of a car that left the premises. One thing is certain though, it would’ve been a bad scene had this person entered my house. This is why I have an armed household. The police showed up 5-10 minutes after the gunshots, as you’d expect. The suspect seems to be long gone. I can see the local PD from my bedroom window as they are processing the crime scene. They’ve found .22 caliber casings (prize to me for the recognition, I guess). Poor CID guy got called out. Hopefully he’s getting overtime. Hopefully they find this asshole.
As an aside, the fence is owned by the HOA and has been down for months. We’ve been back and forth with the HOA about it. I texted the HOA president tonight and he said that it should be replaced in the next 30 days. Might have to send my wife to the next HOA meeting with her filter disengaged.