Has anyone here ever witnessed a shooting?

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43. My very unstable neighbor shot 4 police officers across the street from me.

He then held his children hostage for about 12 hours. I was sitting in my living room with my husband, my sister and my 2 week old baby. We heard gunshots and immediately realized that our neighbor, who we knew was unstable, had shot at the police.

My sister and I got in a closet with my baby while my husband crawled around the house trying to see what was happening. It was terrifying. The gunshots were exchanged several times over the first hour or so. But the silences were terrifying too. We lived in the country and we were not sure where the neighbor was at any given time. I was so afraid that a bullet would come through the walls.

It all started at about 8PM. We were in the closet until the swat team finally evacuated us out our back door and across a vacant field at the rear of our house at about midnight.

My neighbor was mentally ill. When the police attempted to question him at a convenience store he flipped out and ran home and locked himself in with his children. He shot, but did not kill 3 police officers. One officer was hit and fell in the middle of the road and the other officers used their vehicle to deflect some of the gunfire while rescuing him. He is paralyzed.

This happened in the 80's.