A violent crime appears to have just occurred within yards of my house tonight. A detective just called asking if I'd heard anything. Unfortunately it was the one night when I decide to sit in front of the telly. If I had been upstairs on the computer as usual, who knows.
Although the detective couldn't say much, "Due to the serious nature of the incident", it was very clear by his tone and reluctance to talk that someone is either in a critical condition, unlikely as I heard no sirens, or that someone has actually lost a life.
I heard the police spotter plane go overhead repeatedly and wondered why it was going back and forth over the same spot right above me.
Anyone that knows me here will know that I suffer with anxiety and agoraphobia and although I'm only a little anxious over this, it's just this kind of incident that reminds me how much safer it is indoors.
It used to be quite a nice area round here once upon a time, but it has gone down hill considerably over the last few years. In fact when I called out the police to attend to some trouble here about eighteen months ago, he told me this area was under watch as it had been highlighted as a trouble spot.
I'm ok, but I just felt I had to post this as it's only just happened. A large area around my house is cordoned off and I think the forensic people might still be looking for evidence. That's what they were doing just before I began writing this. I can see the area from the back room quite clearly, although besides a couple of people in those white overall things with torches next to an 'abandoned car', there is nothing to see.
So there you go. Dare I say everything here is 'dead quite'? Well it is and it feels very odd. I'm alright though I don't need reassurance or anything, I just need to share this.