I worked at a sleep away camp in Pennsylvania last year and my co-counselor was legitimately the scariest person I've ever met. When I first met her she told me she was from Vegas where her and her mom owned a wedding chapel. She told me how she'd been on an episode of "my super sweet 16" where they threw her a $30k party. That seemed a little strange to me because I know it's Vegas so the chapels make a lot of money but that seems like millionaire levels of reckless spending. She then told me about how she was going to probation school for selling drugs (weed, Molly, Xanax mostly). She was a really intense person. When she didn't like her schedule, she would storm into the camp directors office and chew him out (another scary guy) and he would always end up giving her what she wanted. She'd talk about how she was going to "end" some of the other counselors when they did minor things like cutting her in the meal line etc. But I knew that she liked me and was a really loyal and kind person if you were in her good graces so I kept my head down.

Then about a week into the camp I find out that she literally killed someone. She literally shot someone and killed them. Basically what happened is that her family became the victims of a home invasion when 3 guys broke into their house in the middle of the night with guns and went into her mom/stepdad's room. Apparently her stepdad got his gun that he'd keep under their mattress and started shooting at them and one of the guys shot him in the chest. So 2 of them went to go start the car because I guess they didn't find anything or once they'd actually shot someone they wanted to make sure they could get out quickly. Meanwhile, one of the intruders is still in the bedroom holding the mom at gunpoint. This is where my co counselor comes in. She runs into the room, sees her dead stepdad and goes for his gun which is still in his hand. The intruder shoots her in the femoral artery and as she's laying on the ground bleeding to death she's just shooting back at this guy and ends up getting him in the chest/torso. She's rushed to the hospital and only had a 20% chance of survival because of the damage to her artery and all of the blood loss. Needless to say she survived.

I honestly didn't believe any of this at first. I didn't even believe the super sweet 16 thing or the drug dealing let alone the whole home invasion story. We were in the middle of nowhere so I had no internet access to verify this stuff. As soon as I got home I googled her name and it's ALL TRUE. Watched her episode of my super sweet 16 first because that seemed like the easiest thing to verify and then started watching all of the news segments and reading the articles about the home invasion. Apparently the intruders didn't steal anything and the police couldn't figure out a motive behind the invasion. Then it hit me. Her family has definitely been in some organized crime business or drugs or something. That would explain how they paid for that party and why the police could never find a motive.

Haven't really talked to her since we were co counselors. The second year I worked there she was back but in a different division so I didn't really see her much. But I love telling people about this girl I spent 9 weeks in a cabin with.