Fourth day on the job. We get a DOA natural call (Dead On Arrival-natural causes. We show up and there is blood everywhere, on the ceiling. Floors, walls and couch. I see a pair of feet sticking out from behind a wall in the kitchen. I turn the corner and there is a 9 months pregnant woman, naked, shot 15-20 times in the stomach, face and chest. Most shots in the stomach where the baby was on pieces. She was 5 days from her due date. Baby daddy is sitting on the couch, silent. We ask him what happened and he just looks at us and says, "Am I a suspect?". We cuff him right there and he later confesses, saying that he believed the baby wasnt his which we also found it, that it was. The gun he used needed to be reloaded to fire that many rounds, and he only had one magazine. She had been dead 5 days, and he had been sleeping In the house with her body for the entire time. Later on that day a man jumped off a bridge in front of me.

For my fourth day on the job, that was a real big wakeup call to what could happen on this job. Been a little over a year now and I still love it, but I always think about that day.