This community owes a debt of thanks to the couple who opened their door to a bleeding stranger. The larger headlines today are about the four dead and how this is the second quadruple killing in eight days. They took a risk. They may have saved her life.
Fear can change the landscape of a city.
It's happened before, here and elsewhere. It need not happen here again. As we adjust to Friday's news, we need not close ourselves in. We need to reach out to all of the victims, help the police and resolve that we will continue opening doors. After the shooting, police took the unusual step of having Chief Norman Williams run the daily 10 a.m. police news briefing, to speak words of reassurance on live television.