Monday, December 03, 2007

A Bad Day at the Office

And, boy - it doesn't get much worse than this.

At our weekly Monday Morning Meeting, we found out that one of our fellow workers had been shot 5 times and was in the hospital! This man is our Landscape Architect, from Hungary, and is well liked by just about everybody. He was getting ready for work, just like normal. He walked out to his car and got ambushed. The shooter took off with his car, leaving him to crawl back to his house where his wife found him.

Thankfully, he is OK. Doctor's called it a miracle that he survived: they were able to put him back together and he is now in recovery. By all rights, he should be dead.

As it turns out, the perpetrator was on a rampage that started in Palmer on Sunday where he took a machete knife to his father and step-mother, killing him and seriously wounding her. He then took off for Anchorage where he randomly shot and killed a grad-student who was warming his vehicle in preparation for heading off to school that day. Next, the shooter fired off three rounds into a woman who was jogging past, at least one of which got her in the back. Some time after that, the shooter saw my co-worker's car and decided to go for a joy ride after after firing 5 times point-blank into the rightful owner's chest. Once out on the road, he caused multiple car accidents, even managing to total one of the Anchorage Police cars, before being apprehended.

I cannot see any logical reason for any of these acts. As far as I can tell, there is nothing that connects any of the victims except that they were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

At work, we are all rather stunned and are trying to come to terms with this.

I just don't think we will be able to.

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