Criminals are getting bolder all the time!

When my husband and I went to work on Monday afternoon in Flint, Michigan,  we pulled into the work parking lot just as several police cars went racing by with lights flashing and sirens blaring.

We found out later where they went.  A young man had robbed a neighborhood Rite-aid store with a gun.  He ran from the store and fled on foot by way of neighborhood streets.  When a dog chased the robber, he shot the dog.  The man forced his way into a car driven by a woman from our small town of Davison and made her drop him off near a local elementary school that the students in our program at work attend.  The man jumped into a trash container and attempted to change his clothes there (at the elementary school) before he ran again.  He threw his loaded gun by the street somewhere along his path.  The man ran until he got to a party store and then he went inside.  Of course, the elementary school was put on lock down until police arrived at the party store and arrested the man.  Three days later police are still searching for the loaded gun that the man throw away somewhere along a city street.  Kids walk to school on these streets and police are afraid that a child could find this gun and accidently shoot someone with it.  Or another criminal could find and use the gun.  All of this happened in daylight on a sunny afternoon right near where we work and by the elementary school where we go often for various programs and activities.  All this crime is getting to be quite scary.  Flint has the third highest crime rate in the entire United States.  Criminals are bold enough to rob places and hijack cars right in the middle of daytime in neighborhoods full of kids and close to elementary schools.  I think that is disgusting.  I hope police will find the robber's loaded gun before it falls into the wrong hands!