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Chapter 1: Prelude To Disaster

Since the thugs and bad guys had to contend the same bitter conditions the cops did, they expected a slower than normal shift.  Most bad guys didn’t want to be in the cold anymore than the cops did. A hardy few might use the cold to commit crimes as they thought the cops would be hunkered down for the night, out of the cold. This was the furthest thing on the minds of the young officers this night. They didn’t hang around long. It was just too cold to be out and since the heaters in the cars were always cranked up to the max, relief was right behind the glass.

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Chapter 8: The Assault Begins

It is not clear if this was the situation that Officers Schwill and Hester were facing when they were dispatched at 2100 hours that fateful night.  Certainly, there is little doubt that something was wrong with the dispatch as it was relayed to them. The dispatcher was clearly confused about the call and vital information was not passed along to the officers albeit unintentionally.  When Sanders called complaining about the police interrogating Coleman as a possible purse snatcher, you could hear loud screaming in the background. The voices in the background were shouting about killing police officers and threats were clearly heard being shouted in the background.

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Chapter 11: Help Arrives

There had been stress and tension building throughout the day within the house and it exploded into violence once the officers showed up.  The men had been in the house listening to the ramblings of Lindberg Sanders, drinking wine and smoking grass. There had been little sleep among the men and the circumstances were ripe for violence.  Sanders was a diagnosed a psychotic whose mental health had gradually deteriorated over the years. He needed to take his medication to control his erratic behavior, but he began believing that the medication was the work of the devil and that it was controlling him. His neighbors were used to his strange behavior and his insane ramblings.

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