5月31日晚，我正在马路上散步，突然听到几声清脆的响声从湖边的方向传来，在寂静的夜空中久久回荡。起初我以为是有人放爆竹，因为是节日，但几分钟后有数辆警车从我身边呼啸而过，我这才意识到又一起枪击事件发生在家门口了。

事后我才从广播中得知，就在离我家不到一公里的地方，一位今年大学刚毕业的花季少女Rogers被歹徒开枪误杀了。Rogers was a recent Northern Illinois University graduate with a degree in child development.

接下来人们更担心的是:

"I feel so sad that people can't go out and just enjoy the weather without there being a bunch of violence. Everybody is somebody's child,"

由于经济不景气我们这个区，也就是现任美国总统的家门口，凶杀和抢劫案不断，为了治安，警方加大力度，采取警民协防的策略，雇用大批非警人员几步一岗昼夜值勤，但各种凶杀和抢劫案还是屡屡发生。看看当晚的目击者是如何说的:

Witnesses said four of five shots were fired. Rogers was hit the head. She fell to the ground.

"I'm like Aeyanuna, get up," Goodrum said. "She wasn't moving. So I turned her over, and then more blood just kept coming out."

A second person was wounded in the calf. The teenager is expected to be OK, according to his mother, Gerilynn White.  

"We were just trying to leave. We were...we were at the wrong place, wrong time," Goodrum said.

"There were a bunch of people around. They were trying to help me," said Goodrum. "I was trying to talk to her. I was like, 'Are you here with me?' She kinda looked side to side. So she gave me some eye motion. But I was holding her hand and asked her to squeeze it and she couldn't."

看看警察的本事:

"I hope that someone will come forward. Even if you saw something, you know, call the police and let them know what you have seen," Annyce Dunbar, mother of victim's friend.

Police do not believe Rogers was a target.

Police have made no arrests in the case and they have not released a description of any suspect or suspects. It's unclear if there are any surveillance cameras in the area that might help with the investigation.

看来以后晚上在家附近散步都成了问题。枪击案已经成了美国社会的一个大问题，但我真不希望整日生活在提心吊胆中。我就被人抢过多次，一次还进了医院。被拦住要钱就更是司空见惯，每每遇到这种情况我多半装傻充愣(装出不懂英语的样子来)，侥幸都能蒙混过关。但不知今后还有没有这样的好运气，谁都无法料到明天会发生什么，看来能看到明天的太阳的人都很幸运。

美国的治安真的很差，要想不出事，今后晚上少出门，宅在家里最安全。