A little unwanted excitement
Published Thu, Sep 20 2007 10:17 PM
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About an hour and a half ago, while I was enjoying an ice cream float and watching some television there was suddenly a bunch of yelling and screaming outside the house.
At first it seemed like some teenagers out having a bit of late night fun. Zach went outside for a quick look and it kept going. He came back in. The yelling kept on.
Nikki came down looking for her dog Shasta. Shasta is a medium sized Siberian husky and Nikki was worried that her dog was involved. Shasta was in the house though.
I went out to take a look because it was pretty late for all that yelling, and the scene was a bit alarming. There was someone walking around with a large stick or maybe a crowbar, and people running back and forth around two cars. There was glass on the road. Another kid was carrying a hammer.
It looked like maybe an accident that had escalated into a fight. I called 911 and started describing what I saw.
What follows is what I can piece together from the little that I actually saw, and what other witnesses described.
Apparently there was an altercation a few blocks away and the people in the lead car left the scene, followed closely by the second car. As they turned onto my street, the first car stopped abruptly and was hit by the following car. Then a fight broke out.
A pregnant woman that was in the first car was apparently punched. The rear passenger side window of the front car was smashed in by a "nightstick". At about this time, I made the 911 call.
While I was talking to the dispatcher, the second car tried to leave, and the pregnant woman went over to it and sprayed mace in the face of the passenger. Somewhere during this altercation she picked up a large rock to use as a weapon. The kid carrying the hammer used it to smash the drivers window in the second car.
The police arrived within minutes and tried to sort things out. As soon as the police arrived in force, things quieted down quickly. For the most part. Apparently the people in the second car had called their mother, because she arrived and started yelling at her kids.
Two people were taken away on stretchers, one a pregnant woman who had been punched, the other the kid that had been carrying the hammer. About twenty minutes later, the police let everyone else go. The woman that had been yelling at her kids started yelling at the people from the other car, telling them not to threaten her, and calling them demons.
The police calmed her down a bit, but it was obvious she wasn't happy.Then the police left.
My next door neighbor went inside and got a broom and a dustpan and started sweeping up the glass in the street. While he was doing that, the woman came back.
It was a bit strange, she left the scene the first time heading toward Timberlane. When she came back, she came back from the opposite direction. Apparently she had made a loop around some of the streets in the neighborhood. We directed her around the glass and she made a comment to one of my neighbors before she drove off.
A couple of minutes later the other car drove through again, from the same direction. A few minutes later and all of the glass was swept up. We all headed inside.
This is pretty unusual for my neighborhood. It certainly added a little excitement to the night. A little unwanted excitement.
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