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In Response to the Falling of a Hero

4/27/2017

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PictureCpl. Stephen Ballard
It was around 2:30 yesterday afternoon when I got a text from a friend, a group text with a bunch of guys in the neighborhood.  I assumed it was just about the NFL Draft, but when I read that it involved a shooting nearby, I had to see what was going on.  There was mention of an officer, at that point his name undisclosed, in critical condition after being shot earlier in the day at a relatively nearby Wawa.  Now the alleged shooter was a couple of miles away, active.  The now-named Cpl. Stephen J. Ballard died a true hero’s death, which was announced around 4:30 PM.

In the meantime, all schools in the local district were on lockdown.  The shooter was barricaded inside his parents’ home just a little down the street from an elementary school and about a four-minute drive from the local high school.  This neighborhood was not downtown Baltimore or Philly; it was an affluent neighborhood in which I could probably not afford to live.  The sirens going by, the local Facebook group giving updates, the helicopters in the air.  This wasn’t on the news; this was the news.


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