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Just a Sleepy Little Town…

Posted March 28, 2006

From The Evening Sun: “Man shot during robbery attempt near Gettysburg“

An attempted robbery and shooting in a Gettysburg-area gun shop Saturday morning ended when the two juvenile suspects were apprehended following a short chase.

According to state police in Gettysburg, two juveniles brandishing weapons and wearing military-type clothing entered Lincoln Trading Post, 1895A York Road, in Straban Township, at 11:30 a.m. and ordered everybody on the floor.

One man was shot multiple times before the suspects fled the scene.

Do you know where the Lincoln Trading Post is? No? I’m not surprised; it’s a few miles away from the sleepy little town of Gettysburg, PA. (Sure, the place was a hotspot in the 1860s, but these days its busiest moments are school field trips and the annual “Battle of Gettysburg” re-enactments that take place July 1-3.)

This is one of those rare moments (for small-town folk) where the abstract news hits home. Case in point: my little brother and sister knew one of the attackers (16 year old Elliot Miller). That’s just… strange.

Maybe a robbery/shooting by a minor isn’t a big deal where you live (or where I live for that matter; I’m just a few miles north of Baltimore!), but for the Sleepy Little Town of Gettysburg, this is a shock.

Sarah passed me a link for video of WHTM’s report, but it takes me forever to get it to load in IE, and I think it caused a crash with Firefox.

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2 Comments so far

  1. Kneon Transitt on March 30th, 2006

    Not surprising. Here in Williamsport, PA we’re up to about one gang-related shooting a weekend. Yet it’s still considered a “safe place to live.”

    There’s one particularly bad part of town that’s, yes, on the other side of the tracks. Almost all the violent crime happens there, but I suspect it’ll start working its way to other parts of town soon enough.

    I used to live in Lancaster. They’ve got all kinds of craziness going on down there, but people always think “quiet, Amish community.” Heh — they obviously never lived smack dab in the center of downtown like I did.

  2. Kneon Transitt on March 31st, 2006

    Not one, but TWO more shootings here in Williamsport today! I kid you not. Gang-related, I believe. And here I thought this would be a nice place to raise the fam. *sigh*

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