by Wayne23 » Fri Jan 01, 2016 5:15 am
January 2, 2028 Dawn:
Second anniversary of our agency.
January 5 Zak:
83-75 over Dayton here. 17, 4, 5, 3 for Rose, 20, 4, 2 for Hard, 14, 3, 5 for Bell, who fouled out in 19 minutes.
Our last two games have seen us give up the two largest numbers of points we’ve given up in regulation all season. Why? I don’t get it.
January 6 Zak:
The staff and I have met twice today. All we can do is observe right now, see if we can find some small thing we’re doing wrong.
January 7 Zak:
70-59 at East Carolina. Well, the D was better. And we made 14 threes. 20, 3 for Gonn, 16, 7 for Whye, 8, 11, 2 for Hard.
It still doesn’t feel like we’re playing our game. On the other hand we’re 4-1, tied for 1st in conference.
January 12 Deke Gale:
68-53 at George Washington. Are we back? We’re starting to look better. We’re really happy with our defensive effort tonight. 22, 6 for Whye, 12, 10 for Hard, 12, 7 for Gonn, 12, 1, 6 for Bell. +8 RBs. We held GW to 35.6% shooting.
January 14 Al Anon:
78-47 over Fordham here. The scouting report was three words: “Kick their a$$!” We followed it to the letter. 21, 7 for Hard, 13, 2, 3 for Rose, 12, 5 for Dum. 6 TOs.
January 19 Deke Gale:
81-54 over George Mason. 24, 7 for Whye, 22, 8 for Hard, 14, 4 for Gonn, 9, 5 for Dum. +13 RBs, +6 TOs. Whatever was wrong with us a while back is not a problem anymore.
Let’s hope it stays this way.
January 21 Dawn:
1/22, actually. I’m writing this at 2:15 in the morning. The ultimate nightmare happened at the agency this afternoon. A parent who had lost custody of her two small children came in with a gun. An aide spotted her and immediately called 911, but by the time the responders arrived the woman’s two children, five of our other clients, an RN, an LPN, two aides including the who called 911, a cafeteria worker, and a custodian were all dead. The police shot and killed the woman.
Thirteen people murdered, seven of them children, and the perpetrator is the fourteenth person slain in the incident. The agency is closed. The five surviving clients were brought to other facilities.
Parents are not supposed to know where their children have been brought. How did this woman find out? I don’t suppose it really matters but I find that I very much want to know.
I missed being a victim by just 2-3 minutes. I was at the agency doing some paperwork, and had just walked to the house to take a break and spend some time with the kids.
Within 10 minutes I got the call. By then it was over and the woman was dead.
Life changing incidents can happen so quickly.
At least two of my employees, the custodian and the LPN, were killed trying to save the children. Perhaps others were as well. There is still a great deal we don’t know.
Of the six employees killed, five had been with us since we opened the doors. The cafeteria worker, age 16, was in his second day here.
January 21 Deke Gale:
88-66 over St. Joe’s here. I coached the team tonight. Zak was at home with his family due to the shooting. 29, 10 for Whye, 15, 6, 3, 2 for Gonn, 15, 6 for Hard. 7 TOs, 36 RBs. The kids were subdued when they came in tonight. Once everyone was here I called them all together and tried to focus them. It seems to have worked, they played great ball.
At the halfway point in conf. play we are 15-4, 8-1, alone in 1st, 1 up on Dayton, 1 ½ on Duquesne, 2 on St. Joe’s, 2 ½ on George Mason. Hart and Whye are #1 and #2 in both scoring and rebounding.
January 22 Zak:
We’re ranked. #25, RPI #18.
Dawn:
Details remain sketchy. Janina Maria Formica lived in Cranston with her two children (names are being withheld) and her boyfriend. The state took the children, yesterday, because of neglect. They were both filthy. Both the oldest, a 26 month old girl, and the youngest, a 9 month old boy, were in dirty diapers and no other clothing in a cold apartment. They were crying and hungry. The worker reported that Janina and the boyfriend, Robert Italiano, were addicted to heroin. He was pimping her, with customers coming into the apartment to “get what they paid for.”
Evidently Janina overheard the worker when she called our agency, and the worker must have mentioned our name. The worker is on paid leave of absence pending the results of the investigation.
Janina arrived here no more than a half hour after her children did, and started firing immediately. She had three handguns in her possession when police examined her body. Two had been fired multiple times.
That’s what we know at the moment. Oh, all of the victims were killed, there are no wounded survivors. Those clients and workers who survived the incident were in areas where there was no shooting.
January 23 Zak:
67-63 in OT at Davidson. Close all the way. We tied it at the end of regulation on 2 free throws by Whye, who had 23, 10, 2, 3. 12, 7, 2 for Gonn. +6 TOs, +5 RBs.
We have a 1 ½ game lead.
January 26 Dawn:
We’re still closed. It may be a while. I’ve been catching up on paperwork but I’m pretty much caught up. The rest is probably doing me good.
The worker in the case has been fired.
January 30 Al Anon:
86-80 in OT at 3rd place Dayton. 23 ties, 15 lead changes. No one ever led by more than 6. Rose hit a three at the end of regulation to send it to OT. He had 22, 4, 3. 15, 10, 2 for Hard, 13, 10 for Whye, 11, 8, 6, 3 for Bell, 11, 5, 2, 2 for Gonn. 45 RBs. The scouting report said we needed to get it inside as often as possible, and that’s where we won it. +16 points in the paint, +9 second hand points.