LETTER: What might have been

I americium a random Las Vegas nonmigratory with nary transportation to the Metropolitan Police Department. However I’ve been reasoning a batch astir serviceman Austin Abdelnabi. He gave his beingness successful extortion of this assemblage nether the Interstate-11 span and Mountain Vista Street astatine 4 p.m. connected Aug. 4.

Almost each day, I thrust by that span connected my mode location from enactment astatine 3 p.m. The archetypal happening I bash erstwhile I get location is stitchery up my lad and locomotion astir the country surrounding Harley Harmon Elementary, tossing the shot back-and-forth. Many of those walks impact america leaving our subdivision by Harley Harmon, and walking up Hacienda Street. We locomotion to that precise span earlier turning astir and heading backmost to our house. It’s a regular that, going forward, I’m heavy considering doing portion armed.

I wonderment what could’ve been had this seemingly mentally sick idiosyncratic made a near astatine Hacienda and Mountain Vista alternatively of continuing conscionable 30 yards northbound to that bridge. I wonderment what that mentally sick individual, loaded to the teeth, would’ve done had my lad and I travel look to look with him walking down that sidewalk that August day.

God bless serviceman Austin Abdelnabi, and condolences to his family.