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Danger at Riverside Park

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Editor,

Around lunchtime on Saturday, Jan. 29, I decided to take 7 kids (all under 11 years old) sledding at Riverside Park in Polson. What would be better on a nice winter day? While I stood by a tree, someone from 110 or 114 4th Ave West apartments shot me in the leg with a bb gun. I knew it was a bb and where it came from based on how I was standing. So, I looked up the hill, over the snow drifts made by the plows, searching for an open window, a shadowy figure of a kid trying to hide, something. Then I got shot again in the neck just below my chin. 

When I reached up and felt hot blood, I was shocked, outraged, and furious. I’ve just found out I have to have surgery to remove the bb since it is so deep in my neck. How could any reasonable person shoot an innocent woman? Not only shoot her, but shoot at her through a crowd of kids (youngest being around two years old), aim for her face, and do it all deliberately? Had I not looked up the hill at the apartments I could be blind in one eye right now. I reported the incident to the police, and they interviewed the reluctant tenants. Now what? I saw no sign posted warning local families that they or their loved ones could be shot for no reason. I’m here now to simply warn my fellow Polson residents of what happened. 

Brandy Wallace

Polson

 

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