Linae Tiede

I'll give you anything.

Seconds after she had said that, gunfire started imploding, exploding, explosion from everywhere.

I saw my mom go down.

I turned at that point and looked over my shoulder to my grams and saw her get shot in the head and blood spray everywhere.

I heard her gasp for some breath, and then it was just dead silence.

I felt pretty certain that they were dead.

My thoughts were turned to knowing that within minutes my dad and sister would be coming.

I can remember hearing snowmobiles coming in the distance and my heart sinking to my gut.

Knowing that that was my dad and sister.

It felt like slow motion and quick all at once.

I can remember the screams and grams falling off the stool and my mom reaching over her chest saying, I've been shot.

I started to plan ahead.

I knew that there was a car.

I knew my dad left the car keys underneath the mat.

If I got these men out of the cabin and into the car, my dad and my sister would be safe.

As the noise of the snowmobiles became closer, the man in the gray sweatshirt grabbed me from behind around the neck, put his gun to my back.

My dad could see tears in my eyes, and it was an unspoken communication, and he knew at that point that something awful had happened to Mom and Grams.

The men asked my dad if he had any money.

He reached into his pockets and pulled out what he had and threw it down to the ground.

The man in the Coke bottle glasses was instructed by the other to shoot my dad.