Annie Elise

In today's day and age, and I'm speaking based on experience with my own kids and even what I've seen, it is more, let's stay inside, let's do tablets, let's do video games.

I think not only because technology has advanced so much, but also because there's a fear of kids being outside.

No parents really are allowing their kids to just play until the streetlights go on.

I mean, depending on where you live.

So hearing that this neighborhood really had that, kids just playing outside until all hours, really coming together, having imaginary fun, and like, it's just so nice to think about.

The parents would all watch them run from house to house, just gathering all of their toys, inviting their friends to come outside and play.

And for these parents, it was like watching these core childhood memories being made.

But on the night of June 2nd,

other memories were made.

Ones that people should never have to relive, let alone kids.

Because instead of laughter, there was a single, loud, and very distinct gunshot that rang through the entire neighborhood.

And nothing in the community of Quail Run would ever be the same again.

And what happened next was absolute chaos.

And in the background of many of these calls, you can hear a very young boy crying.

I mean, just really, you know, wailing and just sobbing.

Those sounds are something that personally will haunt me for a very long time.

And most of the calls all reported more or less the very same thing, that a woman was on the ground, that she had been shot, and that they didn't know exactly what had happened.

And it was 35-year-old Ajaka Owens, also known as AJ by her family and friends.

Now, one of these phone calls that came into dispatch, it was very, very different, because this phone call actually came from the perpetrator.

Oh my God, this lady just tried to break down my door.