Sunday Bloody Sunday

It was later in the evening and no one felt like cooking dinner so we decided to grab something from the local taco shack. We were heading down the highway when up ahead we saw a few wreckers hauling ass and a cop car with it's lights on coming our direction. Seeing this, I figured we were about to get sent to something and just then our computer let off it's distinct ring. It was a run for a motor vehicle incident back near the station. I think it's funny that most runs near the station tend to come in when we are out somewhere else. Well we went to make the u-turn when we saw 5 more cops coming our way in the distance. This is beginning to look like something more than a car accident unless the cops are just that bored, but they normally don't have their lights and sirens on unless it's a priority incident. We make a turn off the highway and the dispatcher tells us that we will now be going to a shooting at the local children's entertainment center (not unusual at this place) which is roughly at the same intersection as the accident. Now it's beginning to make a little more sense as to why all the cops were hauling ass over there.

As we now focus our attention on getting to the entertainment center, we roll up on a smashed up car in the median who apparently hit and knocked down a tree. So not really having any detailed information, we stopped a little before because I wasn't sure if this was two separate incidents. I needed to call dispatch to verify where we were going because we would have no choice but to commit to the accident since we had to pass it to get to the entertainment center. Of course dispatch tells us to stand by so we just decide to stop at the accident before they saw us just sitting in the road. As we pull up, a few cops are there putting someone in handcuffs so I roll down my window and ask if this was related to the shooting and he said the the shooting was at both places. To be safe, I called for a second ambulance and we got out to deal with the wreck. The driver had been shot and had a large amount of blood on his neck and back area. Being that he was shot and had hit a tree, we had multiple things to worry about but he was awake and talking fine so that was a good thing. The guy in handcuffs was the passenger who I guess was now a suspect in the shooting.

Still trying to put the pieces together, it was determined that no one was shot at the entertainment center. The first ambulance had shown up there and did not have a patient. They called us on the radio and said there was no shooting victim at that location and I disregarded the second ambulance. That ambulance made their way over to us and I see another engine company coming down the road with it's lights and sirens on so I assume they were dispatched to the entertainment center since we had stopped at the wreck. This is all turning out to be a huge cluster fuck. Just to add on to the chaos, dispatch asks me if we still need another ambulance which I have already disregarded. Frustrated I say that both places will be the same incident, we have everyone we need here and disregard anyone else who happens to be en route. I see the other engine make a u-turn and emergency lights go off so I assume they got they message. We get the victim secured and begin pulling him out of the car when what do you know, the second ambulance who has now been disregarded twice pulls up with lights flashing. I swear we all have the same radio channels but apparently no one was listening. I yelled across the road and told them to go back in service as we didn't need anymore confusion on the scene. Don't worry, it doesn't end here. Our EMS supervisor showed up out of the blue and started getting on to people for not checking out the guy in handcuffs because there was spidering on the passenger side windshield from the guy's head. I tried explaining that when we pulled up, we asked the officer if the guy needed to be checked out and we were told no so we focused our attention on the more critical shooting victim. We finally get the victim loaded in the ambulance and we go stand off to the side looking at the car. Of course despite the major drought, it began shitting rain for the next 5 minutes. None of us had our rain gear so we tried hiding under a tree until it stopped. This night just wasn't getting any better.

The story begins to piece together now. Allegedly some guy at the entertainment center is robbed by these two yahoos in the car and somehow they end up down the road shot and wrecked. The cops were thinking that the passenger shot him but looking at the car, that theory didn't make any sense. If the passenger shot him, how were there bullet holes outside the passenger door?

Their other theory was that this guy was shot back in the parking lot and drove here until he wrecked. I told the cop that the alleged robbery victim probably chased these guys down the road and shot him causing them to wreck. But the only problem was that there was no gun and no shell casings so nothing to back up any kind of theory, as none of the people involved were talking. We ended up staying for a little bit and helping the cops search for a gun. We looked in bushes, drains, grass, and everywhere else between the parking lot and where the wreck took place but didn't find anything. We we starving so told one of the cops that we were leaving so we could go eat when he asked where we were going and if we could bring him a soda back. Being that this was next to the station, we obliged and went on our way.

After dinner, we stopped back by the scene and I gave to cop his drink. As soon as I walked up, he told me  that my theory was correct and they found the gun hidden under a can at the elementary school field across the street. They also found the bullet casings which were underneath where the fire truck was originally parked. The entire ended up being a drug deal in the parking lot of the entertainment center. Something went wrong and the guys in the car took off down the road. The man chased after them and fires out of his window Bonnie and Clyde style, hitting the driver which caused him to run off the road and into the tree. The shooter makes a u-turn and gets out to hide the gun and returns to the parking lot where he calls police saying that he was robbed so he wouldn't get in trouble for the drug deal. So it turned out that the original robbery victim was now going to jail and the cluster fuck of the year was finally at a close. On to the next one.