I was walking into Roots across the street when a flurry of cops, an ambulance, and a fire truck showed up to the intersection. They took a stretcher into the Village Cafe and brought out a man who was wearing a neon yellow safety vest. He was holding a towel to his face, but luckily he didn’t appear to be in a life or death situation. As I was leaving, they were roping off the intersection with crime scene tape and my phone buzzed with the VCU alert.

Really messed up that someone would shoot a parking meter worker just trying to do a job and make money.