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Author: | J Kaufman [ Sat Aug 10, 2013 9:01 am ] |
Post subject: | "No news. The meeting was canceled after the shootings." |
Quote: It was my first Ross Township board meeting. I had gone earlier Monday to the township hall to check on the agenda. [Pocono Record]
The clerk there gave me an earful about how the previous reporter would call the day after the meetings to get caught up, so I decided that, as the new West End reporter, I would show up to Monday's meeting. There were about 15 people in the rectangular room seated on padded folding chairs. The thing that got my attention: plaster flying out, blowing out through the walls. Witnesses would later tell me they saw pictures exploding away from the walls. I heard more than 10 shots. It was automatic, like a string of firecrackers. That's what everyone said. There were real heroes here. People who did not consider their own lives in protecting others. I crawled out to a hallway and then got outside. There is nothing in reality you can compare it to. It just was not in reality. All I could think was: It wasn't happening to me. I went outside to the parking lot. There was a girl there calling 911. I was taking cover behind a truck, an SUV. I was about 50 yards away. The gunman was this guy wearing a blue Hawaiian shirt. I saw him go back out to his car — a silver Impala — and get another gun. I saw him get something out of his car. I didn't see blood when I left. It wasn't real to me until I went back inside and saw people bleeding. |
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