Blog Interactive: October 2007

In this week's episode of The HFD Chronicles, I am appealing to you the reader to provide me with your objective opinions. The following events really happened. I wish I could make this up. All parties witheld the whole truth to protect themselves in some way or another. I am relying on you to let me know what really happened. Let's get started.

1. The call comes in as a Shooting. We are first on scene to find about a hundred teenagers in the street. Four people have been shot-3 guys and 1 girl. All of them have been shot below the waist. The girl is shot once in both thighs in the groin area, one guy in his shin, another in his foot and ankle, and the last in his calf. The people assembled for a birthday party after a football game nearby between two rival schools. The neighborhood is zoned to a different school altogether. The Eyewitnesses say an argument broke out and the shooter went home. He came back rushing toward the party goers firing a sawed off shotgun. Staying true to street ethics, no one admits to knowing the shooter. They say it could possibly be gang related. Who is the shooter and why? Why did he shoot them in the legs?

2. This call comes in as a Stab Wound. The call notes state the victim was stabbed by his stepson who is still on location. As I get out of the ambulance, a 19 year old male approaches me and tells me he is the victim. I ask if he is stabbed in the leg, and he says no, and says there are no other victims. He has a laceration to the webbing of his thumb and to his finger tips. I clean him up and bandage him like a pro.The wound will require stitches. He says his mom and her boyfriend were arguing. He tells us that the boyfriend poured beer on her head and then pulled out a knife. He says he was wounded when the boyfriend lunged at his mom with a butcher knife and was stabbed instead.

After being on scene for 20-30 minutes and while HPD is speaking with the mother a man walks out of the house holding his arms in the air yelling "Ive been stabbed, I'm stabbed." HPD draws their weapons and tell the man to stop. They search the man and then the man begins to holler obscenities about him being the victim and why is he being searched. He won't calm down, so they handcuff him. He in turn becomes more vocal. While he is going on and on, we notice blood is just pouring down his leg. He has a stab wound just below his knee cap and slash marks on his shin. I do another awesome bandaging job, but this time he bleeds right through it. He states he was in an argument with his girlfriend when she stopped talking to him and acted like she was sleeping/unresponsive. He then states his biggest mistake was pouring beer on her head. He says the son the came in with a butcher knife and stabbed him in the leg. He says he locked himself in his room and did not know HPD was on scene. We transported him to the ER in handcuffs. The whole time he maintained his innocence even when police were not around. The knife was not found. Who is the real slasher and why do you think so?

3. The call is an Assault. We arrive to find a 24 year old female standing in the street. She is covered in blood from head to toe. She is wobbly and admits to drinking. She tells us she was at a club when her boyfriend became angry with her. They argued all the way home. On arrival to their house, he punched her. She received a black eye and a split open her cheek from the impact. She says he locked her out of their house. While she was trying to get inside through a window to retrieve her clothes, the window broke slicing up her hand in multiple areas. She also has cuts all over her hands, feet, arms and legs from the glass. Her cousin is with her. While I am bandaging her wounds, her cousin asks me to go get her shoes from inside. I told her the patients health is more important. She asks 2-3 more times about her shoes. HPD arrives and takes the girl's statement. He knocks on the door to speak with the boyfriend. No one answers and he says he is not going to break the door down. He gives the girl a case number and leaves. Why did the boyfriend punch the girl? Should have HPD done more? If so what? What's with the shoe obsession?

Well now it is your turn to solve these horrible crimes. Let me know what you think?