Victims

In this business, you've never seen it all. There's always a day when you have to wonder, why. Why do some people do the things they do? Today, we talked to the owner of a little country store in northern Forsyth County. One of her clerks was severely beaten last Friday while at the store.

The man who did this came into the store, asked if he could wait on a ride, and promptly sat in the rocker supplied for patrons the way many old country stores have. He sat for over an hour, carrying on conversations with other customers and acting quite normal. Then, out of nowhere, as the clerk was stocking some cigarettes behind the counter, he started beating her in the head. She told him she'd give him whatever he wanted if he'd only stop beating her. He didn't. He hit her some more and then tried to open the cash register. When he failed at his attempt to get the cash, he got her up and made her open the drawer.

He made off in an 80's model 2-door sedan, maybe a Mercury Couger. Now, the 61-year-old store clerk is finally out of the hospital recovering from her wounds she sustained in the brutal attack. We can only hope someone knows who did this and will come forward with some information.

Yesterday, we were dispatched to a quiet neighborhood just outside city limits where a number of Sheriff's Deputies and Detectives were on the scene of a rather bizarre incident. It seems an aquaintence of "Amy" came to her house but she didn't want to let him in. So he went around to the back door and used his shotgun to blow it open. (Guess we know why she didn't want him in the house) She escaped out the front door and ran to the neighbor's house. "Amy" and "Roger" locked themselves in the house and waited. "Lyndon" made his way next door and promptly blew that door open, too. Only this time, "Roger" was waiting for him on the other side. As "Lyndon" fire again "Roger" used his own shotgun to put a hole through him "the size of a softball" as the Sheriff put it.

I guess this is a strong argument for guns rights advocates. I know it's a good thing the next door neighbor had a gun or else we probably would've been called out for a different reason. It seems the perp had the idea to burn down the house, too. There was gasoline poured all over the first house he went into. So we probably would've rolled up the scene to find two houses in flames and two innocent dead people inside.

I know some will disagree with what my first thought was when the PIO from the Sheriff's Department told us what had happened. "Good," was the first thing out of my mouth. Not good that someone had died, but good that the one who died wasn't necessarily the victim.