Today we visited the Capitol building with all of us guys in our suits. It was a very hot day and wearing suits was not the beat of clothing for this day. We had a tour of the Capitol building at to be brutally honest it was not that great. We saw a 15 minute video to begin and the walk tour showed us two rooms in 30 minutes. But the real interesting part of the day was what happened just litterally a few minutes after all of the WJMC students left, there was a shooting at the senate side of the Capitol building just ten or so minutes after I left.
Apparently a man was in a high speed chase and ran into a police officer with hid car. He then fired an automatic weapon and shot a man on the senate side of the building. There was then supposivly 10-15 shots fired. When I was there just a few minutes before I noticed that there are heavily armed officers with m-16s all around the building. I’m sure that these are the officers that fired at the criminal. A few of the men are now in the hospital and that is the most I know about the story right now.
It is just crazy to think I was just at the place when this went down. I learned what happened, when I was eating dinner. A group leader told one student at it then went around like wildfire. I then looked right away on my iPod for a story about it but I could not find one all over the Internet. When I searched it was already 45 minutes after it had happened an I was very surprised no news source had it up yet. After learning all week about the 24 hour news cycle and how quickly stories get out, something like a shooting on Capitol hill in our nation’s Capitol was not covered quickly enough I believe. The journalist part of me wanted to be there so that I had a first hand account and have the first story up on the Internet.
Well let’s all hope that everyone is safe and not in life threatening condition. Also hopefully they did catch this man who did this and justice is served for someone that tried to destroy lives and families.
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