so we had michael jackson, superstar, casey anthony, a little girl and then, of course, a case that some people might have forgotten about but it was very horrific, the connecticut murders of the family, the petit family and joseph komisarjevsky on trial for that one and this case probably had the biggest impact on the death penalty. it did. and that s what s fascinating. we see a lot of states trying to abolish the death death penalpe. there are so many anti-death penalty they are legislating and connecticut was getting ready to abolish it and when this happened, you remember the details. they beat the father, tied him up and left him in the basement, they raped two young teenage girl, the mother, then they burned these women alive. horrible. so when people heard these horrific facts, they put on the brakes and the public put on the brakes and said, hey, wait a minute, you know what, maybe
shooter. he s still at large in the park. we have other agencies assisting us with trying to apprehend him and meanwhile, we ve been evacuating visitors from the lower parts of the park and we ve got about 85 people who are staying put in our main park visitors center until we think it s safe for them to leave. but you already had a lot of people in the park, right, when this happened? yeah, it was a busy day. it was a sunny day with, you know, nice weather and the holiday weekend, of course, so people had come up to play in the snow and go snowshoeing and cross country skiing and so, yeah, there were quite a few people in the park when this happened. tell us what happened. we understand one of the park rangers tried to pull this man over. take us through that that s right. we had ranger dan komecha who tried 0 pull this person over. he refused to stop so ranger anderson set up a blockade with her patrol vehicle to intercept him and when he reached that point he jumpe