Manhunt in Alamogordo, NM.

So, I was driving home from an optometry appointment today and decided to go get a couple burritos at the tiny doughnut shop in town. I got stuck in the middle of what seemed like every cop in the town doing house for house searches and running around like chickens with their heads cut off. They locked down the schools and all sorts of other activity was going on. At the time, I had no idea what was going on, except that I was stuck in what I must assume was the biggest traffic jam the bloody town had ever seen.

The cops inspected my car too, had me pop the trunk. I suppose I could have told them no, but I had nothing to hide, and it’s not like I was the only one being checked. ‘Course, they wouldn’t tell me why they were checking, which bugged the hell out of me at the time.

I get to work on my graveyard shift and find a lovely little e-mail in my mailbox ‘to all Holloman e-mail users’ which reads:

Right now there is a shooter between second and fourth street. The Alamogordo Department of Public Safety is on scene and has sealed off the affected area.

There’s actually a bit more in the e-mail, but that’s the general gist. We occationally get little status updates like that, it was meant for parents, since atleast two of the schools are in that area.

And the ultimate irony, the doughnut shop was closed, I was ten minutes late.

Posted in uncategorized on March 4th, 2005 by Fox | RSS 2.0 |