Friends of Victims Arriving - Tried to make this clear.

Shortly after midnight @Endrz48 woke Sheboygan’s Twitter stream with: “Holy fuck the sheboygan police just drove by at like 100 MPH. At least 7 cops.”

My Twitter stream picked up the action when Sheboygan Mayoral candidate and notorious Twit (I don’t know what you call these guys) @aherheimerman broadcast: “Unconfirmed reports of a shooting at the Sheboygan Southside Wallmart.” followed by: “@shevegas Unconfirmed reports of a shooting at the Sheboygan Southside Wallmart. Head over there for photos. Lots of police & fire.”

I ran this through the SheVegas Twit analyzer and headed off to WalMart, because, why not? Asher was right, police cars, marked and un, made it clear I wasn’t getting near. Joining a group of WalMart employees, and post bar gawkers in the defunct Car-X lot I started shooting and scooting, while listening to the smart phone packing crew sharing updates from local Twitter god @sheboyganscan.

“Guy shot a dude in the face and he’s being flight for lifed”

“Another guy got out of a car and shot the guy bam, bam, three times in the chest, point blank, the guy that got shot in the face is OK”

My bad self asked, how the fuck is the guy that got shot in the face OK?

“It went through his mouth”

Flight for life heads towards St. Nicholas Hospital.

An impromptu flashlight interview with my “official sources” revealed something, I don’t recall (review the vid later). Moving on I descend upon the parking lot with TMJ4 camera guy. As we snuggle up to the POLICE LINE DO NOT CROSS zone, a beat ass Chevy Cavalierish car pulls next to us, why did we walk?

“Oh man, why’s the door closed? We gotta go pee, we just got back from Oneida”. I informed Cheech and Chong (white like me) that they just arrived at a shootout and better not pee because cops are everywhere. They jumped in the car and rolled out, at this point I noticed that the front entrance was lacking the red & blue disco lights (shift change?) and pulled my warming box to ground zero.

Seconds later a red car moving at about 40MPH pulled into the spot where the above pik was snapped. WTF, dudes want to be shot? Ah, they know somebody involved, spin and fist clench of despair confirms this. Flight for life heads out to Milwaukee, quiet on the set.

Shoot move shoot, Officer X informs us newsies: We are still evaluating the crime scene, could you move to the westside of the parking lot. Reevaluating what? I circle out and notice several cars hanging out by the tape and move into place behind the gawkers.

Andrew comes walking from inside WalMart and beelines towards TV dudes: “I’m looking for my fifteen minutes of fame” feeling ignored, he comes up to my warm self in the Yaris. “You just looking” I hold up the big I’m working here camera and talk to Andrew.

Picking up my pocket hammer I point it towards Andrew and ask him to tell me what he just told me. “Are you shooting this?” Ja, Andrew freezes , I tell him it’s OK, what you said is positive spin for WalMart. Andrew tells me his story, we talk and the TV guys are now obligated to interview Andrew. Cool, sidelit images rock, say it again and again Andrew.

One guy is dead, one critical, another wanted, I’m going to bed.

This is intended to be an uninformed rumor based account of what I saw and heard at the scene. Misinformation spreads rapidly, sorry for offending anyone.

Reality has a group of nice guys heading to the store for some food. They were gunned down by somebody they didn’t know. Could have been any one of us.

I kept the overtly racist comments out of the story, yet, am appalled that so many condemned the group simply for being Hmong. I’m jealous of the community that reminds me of my family from days gone by, and truly admire my neighbors on the other side of the house.

Andrew May be condemned for his appearance, yet he saved WalMart from having their logo on screen for the entire piece and cleared up some mistruths.

I may be condemned and perhaps I deserve it.