Another unpreventable act of nature
by digby
Yet another person killed by the terrible weather we've been having. There's little we can do to prevent these acts of God unfortunately:
A 52-year-old elementary school teacher who was injured by a stray bullet in Richmond on Jan. 2 remains in the hospital in critical condition, according to police.
The woman, who teaches fourth grade at Berkeley’s Cragmont Elementary School, was shot in the face Saturday night as she was driving on Cutting Boulevard near 22nd Street a little after 6 p.m., according to Lt. Felix Tan of the Richmond Police Department. The woman was knocked unconscious by the shot and crashed her car, according to Winifred Hess, a friend. The teacher’s car crashed into another car, injuring a female passenger, said Hess.
“The victim was driving her vehicle with her partner on Cutting Boulevard when she was caught in gunfire between two individuals,” said Tan. “Unfortunately, she was in the middle of it. She was completely innocent.”
The shooting was the second of the day in Richmond and it prompted community members to hold a city-wide rally against gun violence the next day, Jan. 3.
The only thing she could have possibly done to prevent this would have been to carry a gun herself and shoot the assailants before they shot her, amirite? But that would have been tough since it was a stray bullet that came out of nowhere.
Oh well. It's the work of Mother Nature, just like earthquakes and floods. Nothing we can do because a society awash in gun violence is something over which humans have no control.
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