Seeker
August 17, 2003, 02:46 AM
Drove up to Portland ti visit mom and grandma the other day and they related this story...
My brother, age 35 and works for the city as some sort of tech/engineer, had gone 'cross town to visit a friend and was returning to my folks house at aprox 10:30 pm. either as he approached a stop sign on Killingsworth or as he sat at a stop sign, saw a woman run in to the street from the left, he rolled his window down half way to ask what the problem was, caught something in the corner of his eye and sew a male on the rt side disappear behind phone booth. then the male came from behind the phone booth towards the right side of my brothers minivan. brother looked over at the male as the male yelled"who you talking to?" at my brother or the woman, dunno
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The male then reached, drew and fired at my brother.
The rest of the story is a little more fuzzy as I got it from mom and grandma -
All I know is brother drove away, called the police then returned after police arrived to give report.
The bullet shattered the window of the sliding door and seems to have not broken any other windows or lodged itself in the minivan. went out half rolled down drivers window? From right rear? Would put the trajectory within inches of my brother.
Haven't been able to get hold of brother to find out what really happened and review some SA. He has been pretty liberal over the last 10 or 15 years and probably has fired a gun in more than 15 years(I always invite him down to shoot but his wife forbade it - they are in the middle of divorce now). Talked to hime a few months ago and he seemed interested in hnadguns and CHL (Dad and I both got one). Time may be ripe to revisit the 2nd Amendment with him.
Rule one when I took life-saving was "Don't become a victim!". I think this applies to all kinds of rescues that a gentleman may be called upon for.
My brother, age 35 and works for the city as some sort of tech/engineer, had gone 'cross town to visit a friend and was returning to my folks house at aprox 10:30 pm. either as he approached a stop sign on Killingsworth or as he sat at a stop sign, saw a woman run in to the street from the left, he rolled his window down half way to ask what the problem was, caught something in the corner of his eye and sew a male on the rt side disappear behind phone booth. then the male came from behind the phone booth towards the right side of my brothers minivan. brother looked over at the male as the male yelled"who you talking to?" at my brother or the woman, dunno
.
The male then reached, drew and fired at my brother.
The rest of the story is a little more fuzzy as I got it from mom and grandma -
All I know is brother drove away, called the police then returned after police arrived to give report.
The bullet shattered the window of the sliding door and seems to have not broken any other windows or lodged itself in the minivan. went out half rolled down drivers window? From right rear? Would put the trajectory within inches of my brother.
Haven't been able to get hold of brother to find out what really happened and review some SA. He has been pretty liberal over the last 10 or 15 years and probably has fired a gun in more than 15 years(I always invite him down to shoot but his wife forbade it - they are in the middle of divorce now). Talked to hime a few months ago and he seemed interested in hnadguns and CHL (Dad and I both got one). Time may be ripe to revisit the 2nd Amendment with him.
Rule one when I took life-saving was "Don't become a victim!". I think this applies to all kinds of rescues that a gentleman may be called upon for.