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augies' realm
:: Saturday, January 1
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Sigh, we had an experience on New Year's Eve. We went to Giant (on Brentwood Road near Rhode Island Metro Station) to get some food because we just got back from Canada and we had nothing in the fridge. At around 6 pm, we were done shopping and were coming out of the store. Since I'm pregnant so I walk slower than Jason, Jason was a few feet ahead with the shopping cart, and I was still at the curb where you load the grocery onto your car. I was looking at the guy who was standing by a red SUV talking to two women about the leather jacket that he got it (he showed the jacket to the women. He was maybe 3 feet away me, I was at the end of the SUV and he was standing in the rear passengar door.
As I looked away to follow Jason and sudden I heard 3 loud pops (3 or 4) and at first, I thought it was backfires because I had heard backfires before and thought it was the same. However as I looked around and noticed that people were trying to take covers. Jason was taking cover behind the shopping cart and was trying to tell me to get down. By then, I finally realized that it was not backfires so I took cover behind the SUV which was a big mistake because the guy who was standing by the rear passengar fell down and had wounds on his face. Jason left the shopping cart and ran back into grocery and yelled at me to run in the store so we did. At first, I was like, our 150 dollars worth of food are sitting in the middle of street. Then it finally hit me and I was in the path of the shooter and I just got very upset and shaken up mainly because I didn't know where the noises were coming from and I had a hard time decising which to take cover. Jason told me it was coming from my right and the guy was on my right. If the shooter had missed the guy, he would have gotten to me. He told me when he first heard the first shot, he just took the cover while I didn't realize until after the shooting happened. I felt like I'm a deer in headlight and standing up and didn't know what I'm doing. The guy who was shot is dead.
Apparently there was an off duty police in the grocery so he took after the suspect but I don't know if they have caught the suspect. I just told Jason that I just wanted to be home for New Year's eve. We were supposed to go to Pentagon Row to skate for New Year's eve, by then I was having cramps and I knew it was stress related so I decided to stay home. There were a lot of people who was doing last minute shopping, and even a little boy of 12 years old was there when the shooting happened. There must be about 20 people outside when it happened.
I found this article in the news, not much information but at least there are some information. http://www.nbc4.com/news/4039514/detail.html
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by topazfae :: 10:12 AM :: ::
2 Comments:
Ridor said...
I'm RELIEVED that you were not harmed in the process.
That really sucks. If it happened, I'll be god-damned angry about it.
It is not right that someone has the freedom to shoot up in the open view of a grocery store.
R-
4:13 PM
topazfae said...
Yes and especially during busy time of day. A lot of families are doing last minute shopping. That's why I don't really support revenge idea because it doesn't get you anywhere.
12:32 PM
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