Tuesday, Jan. 31 I received a text in the evening saying a shooting had taken place in Beulah...two men were shot and possibly three were involved in the shooting of them...police were on a serious chase to find the shooters...the Special Forces Division of law enforcement was called out to find the suspects...it took them about two hours to find the suspects...the incident occurred in an apartment building behind the local Dairy Queen...police were all over Dairy Queen it was closed down...the residents in the apartment buildings around and across from the shooting were asked to leave...road blocks were set up...all cars, buses, vans and moving vehicle was being searched on all the roads to Beulah...the local basket ball team was playing in Dickenson about an hour away...the buses were even searched and no children were released to anyone other then their parents...Lacey was trying t call us and I had gone to bed...I grew up in Chicago and Kansas City areas most of my life...this was normal...but I understand it was not normal for Beulah, ND...Lacey could not reach us...Barry was not answering the phones for some odd reason...she was pretty worked up and was sure they had found their way here and shot us and stolen our vehicles...good grief...we don't even have a yard light to find us as Barry doesn't want anyone to find us unless we want them to....he might have to change a tire or something...so Barry got a little worked up and got out the guns and loaded them...I raised one eye and said all that could happen now it is could tip over and go off accidentally and shoot us...and I chuckled went back to sleep...slept like a baby...when I got to work the general manager of the store usually walks or rides his bike to and from work unless its horrid weather...he had driven BC he had no idea they were apprehended yet...my bakery girls were full of information as one of them has a scanner so she heard all the police etc...later as the customers came in we heard all kinds of things...the local hardware store had a run on house door handles with keys...BC most people cannot find their keys...people will not leave their keys in their vehicles BC of this...funny they blame the oil people that have come in...when the suspects were apprehended they were local thugs that have been in and out of jail etc...the guys shot were form Montana...it was a drug deal gone bad...this area has always had a large amount of drug traffic...several years ago The FBI had a drug bust with many many agents apprehending local people...but it is a pretty horrendous story for our little town of 3500 considering one was killed.
I don't find it funny that someone got shot and killed.
ReplyDeleteI do find it funny how the town reacted. The rumors were crazy!