My phone gets alerts from our local news station; it's been going off all day. From the not-so-serious to the life-threatening (and life-taking), I've received a total of fifteen alerts. The first came in at 7:30 this morning, and had to do with an accident just up the road. I learned later that a police car had been sandwiched between a sedan and a truck. The driver of the truck apparently had been working all night and said he "may have fallen asleep." It seemed no severe injuries occurred as a result of that accident, just a big traffic mess.
The next alert was much more serious, and was the impetus for at least five of those I got later in the day. An undercover officer, on his way to work with his teenage son in the car, made a traffic stop and was shot multiple times. Even though bullets penetrated the officer's car, where his son was in the front seat, the son was not injured. Horribly traumatized, no doubt, but not physically injured. The officer survived but is still in "critical but stable" condition -- at the same medical facility his shooter was taken to. The shooter too is alive. I saw a news conference after work, but the sheriff's office isn't releasing much information.
About a half hour after that initial alert came though, I got one saying that an employee of a landscaping company had been shot by (I think) another employee of the same company. That shooting victim did not survive, but I haven't heard much about that. The story of the officer-related shooting has overshadowed everything else.
The other stories have been about missing people and wildfires, bad news to be sure, but not quite of the same magnitude. It's a crazy world, and this is unusual for our city. And very sad.
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