When I pulled into my parking spot I downloaded a police scanner app for my phone and started to listen. There had been a shooting at the school 3 blocks from me. I know the school, it is a middle school and it is on one of my routes that I run fairly often.
I sat there praying that nobody was hurt, that the shooter had not gotten away. I waited.
The lives of everybody at this school have forever been changed. I do not need to go into how this effects me, it doesn’t. There are hundreds of students, parents, teachers, spouses, and children who are currently living in fear. The thoughts of “not my child/husband/wife” the thoughts of “why me”. It is terrifying, it is sickening it is maddening.
As it turns out the shooter has been neutralized. Whether that means killed or apprehended I don’t know. I don’t care. One would hope it is the former and not the latter, I don’t want to know his name, I don’t want to know why he did it. There is no good reason to shoot up a school filled with innocent children.
When I get home I’m going to give my child hug, I will call my daughter and tell her I love her. I will continue to pray for those families.
For those interested in following the story http://www.rgj.com/viewart/20131021/NEWS01/131021004/Update-Shooting-morning-Sparks-Middle-School
http://www.kolotv.com/home/headlines/Shooting-at-Sparks-Middle-School-228622361.html?ref=361
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/student-shot-middle-school-article-1.1491586
