

About 15 minutes later I turn around, my daughter is standing there, pale, tears down her cheek begging to sleep in my bed again. The next night I put my daughter to bed in her room and went in the other room to fold laundry. Of course I let her sleep with me that night. She says, "No mom, it's not the picture because I can't see the picture through the dark figure." Chills ran through my body. In hopes of alleviating her fears I tell her maybe it's the "Wizard of OZ" characters in the large picture that hangs on the wall. She was embarrassed to say but after some encouragement she said, "I see a dark figure in my room." I ask where in her room she sees it, she says at the end of her bed. She had tears in her eyes, so I asked her why. She looks at me and says "Mom, can I sleep with you tonight?" I told her she was too old and should sleep in her bed. It all started with my daughter (9 years old at the time) and I sitting on the couch one evening. Officers at the scene said the triple shooting may have been a drive-by shooting, but they are still investigating to figure that out.I have lived in my house in Cypress, Texas for a little more than year and a half but everything began happening a year ago. The scene of the shooting was just a few blocks away from where Richmond’s new interim police chief, Major Richard Edwards, spoke publicly a few hours before the shooting. Officers were going in and out of the store’s front door, now with its glass busted out and shattered on the ground after the shooting.

Investigators were behind the crime scene tape at the corner of Meadowbridge Road and Carolina and Woodcliff Avenues last night, trying to figure out how the triple shooting happened. Two months back, in August, a juvenile walked himself into the hospital with a gunshot wound after a quadruple shooting at the same store. The shooting isn’t the first one to happen at the convenience store. Richmond Police officers responded to the reported shooting around 8:30 p.m. Two men are fighting for their lives and one man has non-life-threatening injuries after being shot at the Carolina Express convenience store Thursday night.
