The weather was so nice today,
we decided to take a break from unpacking
and go to the park right down the road from our house.
We had a great time.
We loved having our friends come help us move!
This last picture was taken literally less than 5 minutes before a shooting in the same park.
I thought we had picked a nice neighborhood.
We had no idea who shot whom.
As we were leaving to head back home, 3 cop cars come flying into the neighborhood. They all had lights on, but no sirens. The first cop pulls over and rolls his window down. He asks us if we had seen a silver civic come flying into the neighborhood. We hadn't seen anything and he peeled out as he was driving off. The two that were following him flipped a u-turn and since the street wasn't wide enough they drove across people's lawns. At this point I knew something big was going on. We started out of the park and hadn't made it too far when more police officers show up. We had made it to one of the houses next to the park and start talking to one of the neighbors. As we were talking we hear pop, pop, pop. We all look around at each other in shock. Then when the realization sets in we all start running away from the park. We make it as far as the major street that we had to cross (which isn't far) before we were stopped. The police had changed the lights to allow them to get through on green, and all the other directions were red. The police were still close enough that the lights weren't going to change. We weighed our options and ended up crossing the road on a red.
We found out later that the civic was stolen from a town about 20 miles away. The suspect then robbed a convince store in the neighboring town. He led police on a high speed chase through both towns and just happened to end up at the park that we were at.
