re: Auburn Shooting Thread (Updated 6-12) Suspect in Custody

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Some friends and I were getting ready to go out to watch the boxing match at a bar. We stopped by a friend's apartment a bit closer to the front of the complex on our way out.

We were sitting in the living room area when we heard what sounded to me like firecrackers. bang bangbangbangbang We all stopped and looked at each other. One of my friends dropped on the floor. We all went to a separate room, further back in the apartment. One of the other guys there said he heard more shots after we left the room.

We called 911, who said they already had officers on the way out. We looked out the window, where we had a pretty good view of the pool area and front of the complex. Which is where it all happened.

There were so many fricking people just fricking running the frick away from the front. I could hear someone screaming. This screaming was unlike anything I've ever heard in my life. I don't know if I heard someone screaming in pain or someone screaming in shock at seeing something. I left the room briefly. When I came back, the screaming had stopped. I don't know if that screaming was from someone who died or someone who fled. Police arrived soon after. Saw them walking around with a flashlight.

We got in the car and tried to leave, only to be told that the complex is on lockdown. We're not allowed to leave. No one is allowed in or out.

We got out and walked up to the front to see what we could see. The whole front of the complex is roped off with crime scene tape. There were ambulances, but they're gone now. There's firetrucks and shitload of police cars. Forensics showed up an hour or two ago.

My friend and I were able to get up pretty close. Saw one of the bodies. He's lying on his back, kinda sprawled out. They had a white sheet over him. He'd bled through it. I guess he was shot in his chest.

Later on, forensics walked up to the body and lifted the sheet. Saw the guys face. As I said above, it was clearly Ed Christian.

That's about all I saw. Spent a lot of time talking to people hanging around the scene.

Trying to figure out how to get out of my fricking lease. If anyone has advice, I would certainly appreciate it.

What I've pieced together

There was a group of people at the front of the complex. It was not a pool party, like everyone keeps saying. Some kind of argument started up. A fist fight broke out. Ed Christian was not one of the people fighting. He was holding one of his friends back, trying to stop the fight, when he was shot.

We're pretty sure that Ladarious Philips (sorry if I spelled his name wrong) is another casualty.

We just heard that Eric Mack, who was taken from the scene to the hospital, has since died.

That's all I know currently.

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