Nothing but a Tragedy

Well, I said this was a nothing town....maybe I spoke to soon.

As usual we are sitting in the local bar on a Sunday....we hear sirens wailing and ambulances whiz by....nothing unusual for this place as the highway is treacherous going up river and we have dealt with many accidents and fatalities because of it. My friend Mark is sitting next to us and the phone rings and it is for him. He hangs up and says "last night at about 9:30 or 10:00 pm I heard this tremendously loud shot, so loud that it woke me up from my couch in a start...I sprang up and ran to the front door and looked out....but didn't see anything". Well, hearing gunshots around here is nothing unusual either as this place is loaded with Hunters, Loggers, and even trailers that work as both a Home and a Gun shop combined. Mark says, "Lori just called me and told me that the Cops are at Gary W's house and that he is dead".

Oh my God....

This is a tragedy....right now I am at the Bar the day later and, of course, this is the topic of the day. Gary W was a very respected Man in this Community. He was the top River Guide, he was a loving Grandfather, Loving Father, Loving Son to his Mother, he had Cerebral Ataxia and was doing sort of ok with it.....he kept his yard immaculate. He kept his boats immaculate. He loved his dogs.......

A tragedy that has turned this Nothing Town upside down.

As we have all been mulling over this horrible incident we have come to conclusion that right now we have a Killer running loose up river. This is not the first shooting that has happened up river...this is a lawless place....but for it to happen to a man so well respected.....it is a terrible shame. In the last 3 years we have had about 3 or 4 killings and none of them were ever solved or even prosecuted and I think it is because the Cops just write us all off as losers and "crack heads" and just think "oh well" just another loser we don't have to hunt down anymore. But Gary W.??? He was none of those and I am pretty sure that the person who friggin gunned him down is probably of the the ones who "got away" with it before. We have young men up this river who are completely insane....men who didn't finish school and just stayed here because their parents just let them sit around and drink and smoke dope and hang out with them.

This has got to stop............Rest well Gary.....We will find out who did this to you.