The Norfolk Southern Police shooting

The Norfolk Southern Police shooting

This whole story got stranger and stranger. Here’s why,

((Henderson said the shooting began shortly after 5:30 p.m. Sunday across the street from the New Albany Public Library on Scribner Drive when Baldon got out of the car he had been riding in with his girlfriend and their 3-year-old daughter and fired two shots at the vehicle. No one in the vehicle was hurt.))

Why in the heck did he get out of his car and start blasting away at his family in the car? Did he lose his mind? His young daughter was in the car.

Anyway, it gets even stranger, read on.

((Baldon then walked a block along Scribner to the front of a house at the corner of Spring Street and fired several more shots, including two that struck the New Albany Police Department headquarters across the street, the prosecutor said.))

He shot at the police station…the HQ. Did the actual cops from the station respond? Nope, someone else did.

((Officer John Hartman of the Norfolk Southern railroad police drove up, got out of his car and fired five shots at Baldon but did not hit him, Henderson said. Baldon was found dead in the driveway beside the house.))

A Rail Road Officer came up and fired at him, not the local police. Keep in mind that all six major railroad companies have their own police forces. They guard and monitor their rail systems. Like university police, they are real police officers.

Well, it isn’t over.

((Henderson said an autopsy and investigation showed that 29-year-old DeWayne L. Baldon died of a single shot fired from the 9 mm handgun he had been firing in the direction of others seconds before.))

Yep, the man took his own life. No one killed him. He killed himself. I’m not even sure we’ll get any answers to the story. No one else was hurt in the shooting. Why did he shoot at his family and the police HQ? He was from Louisville, but was in Indiana shooting up the place.