A SWAT buss had just arrived as I got out of the Ford Edge and put on my jacket. The night air was cold and thick with fog, that had settled in. The flashing lights from an unmarked Georgia Bureau of Investigation car, two Georgia State Patrol cars, three local patrol cars, and the EMS truck, light up Benton Powel Road. Chief Ladell had called me at five p.m., giving me the news. I drove the one-hundred-eighty-three miles to Uvalda Georgia in under two hours. There were three officers from the local police, along with two officers from the Georgia State Patrol, and a Georgia Bureau of Investigation officer. Two officers from the Georgia Specialized Collision Reconstruction Team, had been sent to assist. I was trying to wrap
