ok so until the 21st century there was only one murder in my hometown of Gig harbor, which was a mentally unstable man killing his caretaker mother sometimes around 1975 or so. We all have mothers, and although it is never nice to kill people, it wasnt a random act of violence and is easy to see how someone off their rocker can lash out at the closest person around. Growing up in an idyllic small town has its priviledges, and one of them is assuming no one is going to get shot anywhere around you.
Then came April 2003.
The Tacoma Police Chief, who lived in Gig Harbor less than a mile from the house i grew up in, killed his wife and himself in front of their two young children in the parking lot of the restaurant me and kk and my parents go to every sunday after church. that kinda shocked the community, of course, because 'things like that dont happen in Gig Harbor.'
OK then this morning ALLEDGEDLY a husband shot his wife, and his friend before shooting himself, when jsut last night they were all planning a fitness cruise for the summer. how do people snap that fast?
Any what is it about small towns that the crimes have to be so much more horrific, unpredictable, and shocking than those of larger, more crime-ridden cities?
I will be glad when there is a generation of kids that dont remember there ever being any killings in gig harbor. Kind of like me growing up. Ignorance was truly bliss.
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