Someone died today....

Someone died today on our block. We're still not sure who, but we think it's the elderly alzheimers victim who lives two doors down. I was looking out the window and saw 2 cop cars pull up, quickly followed by 3 undercover cars, a traffic unit squad car (??) and a large supervisor type vehicle. High drama! My first thought was the gal across the street called the cops on the boys who play ball in the street all year long. Next came an ambulance followed by the fire chief's car.

The undercover cops run in with their hands on their guns, the EMTs grab the gurney and go flying in the house. Not one minute later, out they stroll, gurney empty, pack it up and zoom off. One minute after THAT, the zoom back up, jump out again without a gurney, grab their bags and rush inside. Odd. We joked "maybe he wasn't dead after all?" Just cracking jokes of course, we didn't think there would be a death in the house. But by that time there was a crowd of people on the porch crying, so we figured it had to be a death.

All but one cop leaves, ambulance leaves, Chaplain pulls up, detectives pull up, and Coroner pulls up. Detectives? Interesting. They're there for over an hour and then leave. Of the 3 people that live in the house, only the elderly man was unaccounted for. Yes, we stood in the neighbor's yard and counted. We're that bad.

So what started out as high drama ended very sadly. I'm thinking perhaps it was suicide by gun. That would explain the guys running in with hands on guns, the 8 squad cars, the chaplain, the detectives, the EMT guys walking and and then coming right back out (because clearly he was dead), stuff like that. Very sad.