Fun times! Been a while folks. My apologies. Life has been veddy busy lately. I have an interesting story for you all though.

So I was listening to music, eating dinner, and chatting with my girlfriend on the computer when I heard a fire-truck "WHOOP!" I peaked out my bedroom window and saw lights reflecting off of my neighbor's house. I wandered out into the living room and there was a firetruck parked out front, an ambulance, and cops everywhere. Jordan wandered out of his room too (he had been practicing guitar) and we walked outside to see what was up. First thing I noticed was the tracks of blood down the sidewalk in front of our house leading to a group of people huddled around something. Then I noticed the larger puddle of blood and a bloody hand sticking out from between the gaggle of paramedics. Serious WTFM?!?!? Our neighbor came out and said that someone got shot and we chatted with her for a short bit while they got the guy on a gurney and into the ambulance. They threw a pile of bloody clothes (which they had cut off of him) into a plastic bag which afforded a really good view of the blood pools. In an attempt to not get too near the blood and/or evidence we did not cross the sidewalk to get a better view of things but just kinda looked over the bushes and all on our tip-toes. I went back inside to get shoes and a hoodie on (figured no need to accidentally step into anything without foot coverings)and then Jordan and I went and talked to our neighbor on the other side (who luckily had just sold his house this morning). He said that he heard a bang, though it wasn't like any gunshot he or his wife had heard before (she had grown up in the inner city of LA)and that then they heard someone yelling for an ambulance. Upon combing my memory I vaguely recall hearing someone shout something although I do not remember hearing a bang at all; either way, I must have just dismissed the yelling as someone being loud as one normally would if not paying too much attention.

Apparently there have been some weird things going on the past few days. Jordan says he got freaked out early this morning at around 4am bcs he thought he heard someone tap his window a few times and our neighbor found a used condom in his yard this morning. Anyways, the cops found two guys wandering about that didn't live around here and were questioning them in front of our house and so despite being massively interested, Jordan and I decided it would be a good idea to go in and lock the door just in case anyone decided to do something really stupid; basically I have no desire to get shot or accosted in any way and we all know people do stupid shit when they are scared. The cops have been combing the street and bushes looking for a weapon for a while now to no avail and one just came and asked us a few questions abt 10 minutes ago. We asked what happened and he said that it appears a group of guys were hanging out in front of our house by the street and a car drove up. Some words were exchanged and someone fired a gun into the victim. Everyone scattered and one of the neighbors called 911. From the blood on the sidewalk it looks like he got shot in front of our neighbor's house and ran past our house and our other neighbor's house. At that point he turned around and staggered back to where he had been shot and fell into the gutter at the side of the road. That is where he was being attended to when we came outside.

So yes, currently I am in a crime scene. They cordoned off a whole chunk of the street with "crime scene" tape (a part of the street that includes our house and both mine and Jordan's cars) and are trying to piece together exactly what happened. Such horrible excitement! That's life in the big city for ya! I suppose I'm just glad that I got home early today and that I didn't have to go anywhere tonight.

I wonder how much harder that will make it for the owner of this house to rent it out starting in June after we move out?

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