How the events unfolded in a totally blindsided Circle C Ranch, the final area impacted by the senseless violence, and why the response by officials raises questions
Thank you so much for writing this. At 4:50 I drove from my neighborhood right across from the Alamo Drafthouse to take my 14-year-old son to the basketball courts next to the Circle C pool on La Crosse. I dropped him off and came home right around the time the cyclist was being shot. Of course, I had no idea that was happening and never heard any siren for that one or saw anything in FB. Nothing. My son was playing basketball with friends till 6 when he called and asked for a ride home. I said yeah, that I would leave in 10 min. Not in a million years did I think that the entire hour+ he was playing basketball there was an active shooter .7 miles away. As I drove in the dark to pick him up, I literally had the thought: "This is good that he's learning to be on his own. It's so good we live in a safe neighborhood where I can let him have this independence." That was my actual thought. I picked him up and we came home. Around 20 min later we hear the sirens. All day I've been wracking my brain thinking about how on earth we weren't notified. I would have driven straight to those courts if I had even an inkling that an active shooter was nearby.
I saw the news last night, and none of it was coherent. No description of a suspect. Nothing. In a different part of S Austin, but we don’t hear of the stuff that happens while there are helicopters circling my house while law enforcement look for someone with K-9 officers on the ground. Why are affected residents the last to know?
I agree with you. I did not know about any of this except for the security guard at the school yesterday when it was on lock down. The other details I just discovered on the noon news today.
Absolutely! This was handled terribly. I didn’t know anything was going on, besides the lockdown at the high school. My mom in Massachusetts alerted me this morning.
I genuinely wonder if Texas politics makes it harder for people to actually get word out.
Well said, Evil One. The police did well to catch him, but they need to get a lot better at communicating.
Yes, the officers on the ground by all accounts made a textbook capture when he fled in a vehicle.
Thank you so much for writing this. At 4:50 I drove from my neighborhood right across from the Alamo Drafthouse to take my 14-year-old son to the basketball courts next to the Circle C pool on La Crosse. I dropped him off and came home right around the time the cyclist was being shot. Of course, I had no idea that was happening and never heard any siren for that one or saw anything in FB. Nothing. My son was playing basketball with friends till 6 when he called and asked for a ride home. I said yeah, that I would leave in 10 min. Not in a million years did I think that the entire hour+ he was playing basketball there was an active shooter .7 miles away. As I drove in the dark to pick him up, I literally had the thought: "This is good that he's learning to be on his own. It's so good we live in a safe neighborhood where I can let him have this independence." That was my actual thought. I picked him up and we came home. Around 20 min later we hear the sirens. All day I've been wracking my brain thinking about how on earth we weren't notified. I would have driven straight to those courts if I had even an inkling that an active shooter was nearby.
It's puzzling.
I saw the news last night, and none of it was coherent. No description of a suspect. Nothing. In a different part of S Austin, but we don’t hear of the stuff that happens while there are helicopters circling my house while law enforcement look for someone with K-9 officers on the ground. Why are affected residents the last to know?
I agree with you. I did not know about any of this except for the security guard at the school yesterday when it was on lock down. The other details I just discovered on the noon news today.
Absolutely! This was handled terribly. I didn’t know anything was going on, besides the lockdown at the high school. My mom in Massachusetts alerted me this morning.