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Wednesday, August 25, 2004

Not a good day for the city

Well, I was going to write about myself a bit today, introduce myself, stupid info, it's my Nerds birthday, and the what not, but unfortunatly, there was a horrible, horrific, sad incident in the city today.
A man, early this morning, shot a woman in the head (she's 'ok', slightly injured and concious apparently) in a food court basically in the city's main transportation centre, right in the financial district during morning rush hour, and then proceeded to take a hostage outside the station.
The hostage was held for about 40 minutes, and the man step away from his hostage for a moment, and was shot dead by police. Not much information is available yet. It was all very sudden, and fast the reports are being updated practically by the minute.
The hostage is safe, but that poor woman, hopefully the stress won't be too bad, or suffer too badly from Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. It's brutal.
This is yet another incident that makes you take stock of your life, want to get your love one's close, close, close (luckily I will have some of my closest, dearest friends with us tonight), and just rid your self of petty things, and appreciate everything all that much more.
It's sad how sometimes it takes incidents like this to make you see things more clearly, and really, for a city this size, we're fairly lucky that we don't have crazy incidents like this more often.
Apparently the incident was sparked off by a domestic dispute, but nothing is for sure yet. The identity of the gunman and his situation has not been released, we just know that he's dead.
They won't show the shooting on the news, but I'm sure it will be on the internet somewhere.

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