Friday, May 18, 2007

Tragedy in Hillsboro

News about a police shooting the other day in Hillsboro right near where Gabriel's grandma lives turned slightly personal when we learned that the person shot and killed was our auto mechanic, Song.

When one thinks of unstable individuals, Song wouldn't have been at the top of my list. He was a gentle older Laotian man and did good, affordable work on our cars. So it was a shock to say the least that he reportedly grabbed a gun while paramedics were assisting him after Song's son made an emergency call. It all ended with Hillsboro police shot and killed him after he started firing his gun.

We'll be following the story as it develops and only hope to find another mechanic as nice and fair as he was.

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