It all started at 3:30 yesterday afternoon, Laura was going home and there were cop cars blocking her road she thought it was a fender bender so when the cop motioned for her to turn around she was like no. Well the cop continued on about his business and he went to his trunk and pulled out a huge gun and then Laura looked around and noticed cops running and hiding behind bushes and mailboxes. She started freakin out and then turned around.
She went to the end of the road and called me and Pres and started talking to other neighbors about what was going on...she figured out that cops had been called to the guy's house and when they got there he started shooting at them which started the standoff. She ended up parking on the road behind her house and walked to their house.
A few hours later Laura called me back and was like there has been 8 or 9 shots been fired since the last time I called you. She said they saw a older white man in his undershirt and boxers covered with blood come to the front door and start shooting. Me and Erik were going to eat and then we were going to try to get over there. They told us the road was blocked but we were going to try anyway.
We ended up parking behind their house also and walked across the yards to their house. They were all piled up in the playroom with the binoculars and video camera with the lights out watching. This is the view we had...
Anyway, Pres showed us a video he had just shot where the guy turned off the flood lights of the house, opened the front door, and started shooting! It was freaky!
So we sat there until about 11:00 with no excitement except the swat guys running across the road and diving under the trees so me and Erik decided we were going to leave. We get back to the car and there is a big SWAT van in front of Erik's jeep with guys in full getup piling out of the van so we thought something may be fixin to happen so we ran back over to their house. Here is as good of a pic I could get without using my flash of the SWAT van...
A little after midnight nothing had still happened except for the cop coming over the intercom telling the guy to pick up the phone or flash a light letting them know he was ok so we left again.
This morning at 8:30 Laura called me back and said it was still going on and they had heard 1 shot. She called me again at 9:30 and said there had been 3 more shots and it was over cause police were goin in and out of the house. So I got ready real quick and went over there so I could see some more action. Pres called me and told me to try to go the real way to their house so he could maybe move their cars back so when i got there media vans were going down the road and I just followed them into their road and came on up. Pres went and moved their cars over and in the meantime told a reporter that he had some good video from the shooting the night before.
A little bit later the Bham news guy comes and gets the raw footage and is trying to put it on www.al.com now but he called later and said he can't get it into the right format to put online.
Me and Laura wanted to get in on the action so we drove down the end of the road while Pres was getting ready for work to see what was going on...the roads were completely blocked with crime scene tape! Well, Laura had a MD appt at 1:30 and when she asked if we could get out by then they said no. So Pres couldn't go to work either. So we went back to staking out the house
and hanging out with Kennedy
I guess they really didn't want us gettin out cause they sent a cop up the cul-d-sac to block us in!
Oh and we had heard from Pres & Erik's sister that the guy inside had killed himself somewhere between midnight and 2:00am during the night so we were kinda waiting to see them bring his body out....I know we're morbid. But it paid off we got to see them bring out the body...I have tons of pics of this but due to the graphic nature I'm only going to post one...turn away now if you don't wanna see...
So they finally got the scene clear and undid the tape so we could get out and Pres went to get Laura some meds (she has a nasty infection going on) and then I came on home. Yeah we kinda had fun with this whole event but its really sad. This guy was a nurse and dad and husband. He apparently had some mental issues and the wife was teh one who called teh police to go and check on him after he threatened suicide. And this didn't happen in Ensley or somewhere like that this happened in a really nice neighborhood in Trussville...I mean some of the homes here are in the 700 thousand price range...it just goes to show it can happen anywhere.
Thursday, January 29, 2009
Standoff in Trussville
Monday, January 26, 2009
not good...
For some reason I took a pic of the moose hanging...
new BFFs
I got my pic made with EVERYBODY...HAHA
Ewww...Piggly Wiggly feet!!!
Me and Sarah's feet started hurting so we took our shoes off but this was what our feet looked like afterward!
Melanie Got Hitched!
Saturday was Melanie's big day! There was so many people from work there and it was probably the funnest wedding I've been to. Oh what a night! After the reception several of us went to a bar across the street from the reception...it was a blast! Erik had 2 dates me and Laura and bless his heart...
Comedy Club
Friday night I went with Erik and his BFF DJ to the comedy club. We saw Dave Attell (I think thats his name) anyway he was hilarious and they got to meet him at the end.
Sunday, January 11, 2009
new baby Kennedy
We went and hung out with Laura and the new baby today and I finally had my camera with me! She's so sweet!
big brother Dylan & Kennedy
How uncomfortable does he look? I had to throw her in his lap and he didn't move the ENTIRE time he had her...Dylan looks more comfortable holding her!
modeling her afternoon outfit
Gettin Ready for the Wedding Night!
We had Melanie's lingerie shower on Friday night. It was fun stuff! She got some great stuff and I'm sure Pat is going to LOVE it! Here are a few pics but I swore I wouldn't put some of them on the internet.
Saturday, January 3, 2009
More from game day
Drinking our sorrows away on Bourbon Street
Sugar Bowl legends or something...Gene Stallings was suppose to be in there somewhere and so was oh I can't think of his name...he played for Bama and he just recently got arrested for a DUI...he's the one with the really white long hair on the far right back row
Here comes the team or whatever you wanna call what they were playing like
Saban attempting to cheer on his team...I don't think he did a very good job at it
Sugar Bowl Day
Erik's parents came down on Friday and met us at our hotel. We took a cab downtown and toured around a bit then walked to the Super Dome. It was exciting to be there but boy did that game suck. We didn't show up to play AT ALL!!! I think our players spent too much time on Bourbon Street the night before or something...the best things about the game: #1: John Parker's done...YAY! #2: it was in NOLA which is fun and #3: we still beat Auburn 36-0
inside the dome
fixin to go inside
outside the dome
Erik's parents at Jackson Square
us
