Mystery – August 22

“Five years before the actual siege did come to their land, they even filed an affidavit with the Boundary County Sheriff’s Office, or the local courthouse, saying, ‘”‘We fear that our land will be raided, we will be forced to kill a federal agent, and in defending ourselves, all be killed,’ which is a shockingly accurate prophecy of what was to come five years later.”
– Chris Jennings in conversation with Dave Davies about the federal law enforcement stand-off with Randy Weaver and his family in Ruby Ridge, Idaho, which ended on this date in 1992 when a sniper killed Weaver’s wife Sara and wounded Weaver and another man.

Writing prompt: Write a scene in which your protagonist causes the wrong person to be shot.

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