you mother [ bleep ] better put your heads in the dirt or we re going to blow your [ bleep ] heads off. there was a young woman there that was pregnant that they beat her up and she lost her baby. and i remember putting my hand over my mouth so i wouldn t subconsciously or otherwise wouldn t allow any sound to come out. and then it was over. i remember going to the kitchen and getting towels to try to pack mrs. opsahl s wounds. we put the towels on her body. god. it just went through her. and so we knew there was nothing that could be done.
we opened up the doors. i went back to my counter. in fact, i believe one of the sla members held the door open for my mom and the other two women to go in ahead of them. so there was three of them. and she was carrying this big heavy old style calculator. next thing you know there s screaming at the back door. my mom had this big adding machine in her hands and wanted to set it down on the counter. emily, she d taken the safety off of her shotgun, and it discharged. that split second of an instant, mrs. opsahl was shot with a 12 gauge shotgun from about six or seven feet from me. and emily was so nervous. that s why she did it. she was so [ bleep ] nervous. people were screaming, yelling, cussing at us, pistol whipping people, jumping over counters, cocking shotguns at the back of our heads.
one of them kind of had to insist that he stop because he wouldn t on his own. i couldn t imagine having to do that. for those first few days after my mom was murdered and up until the funeral things were really in a fog. i was just in a state of shock. patty was driving the getaway car, and according to the felony murder rule, anybody who is a participant in a felony and there s a murder, they re also responsible for that murder. from april 21st, 1975, we ve all lived with the death of myrna opsahl. it being an accident doesn t change anything.
children, was shot gunned to death. myrna opsahl was waiting to deposit money from a seventh-day adventist fund-raiser. she was waiting in line at the bank when he burst in and shot her. by most accounts, patty was outside. then they fled back into the bay area. and ironically or not, the very end, they were living right here in san francisco, right back in the same little network of places they had been all along. you have to wonder sometimes if they almost, by then, had a kind of a secret wish to get this over with. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro.