1 hospitalized after shooting in Battlefield, Mo.
Police say a person was taken to the hospital after a possible robbery led to shots being fired in Battlefield Thursday afternoon.
According to the Battlefield Police Department, officers got the call to a reported shooting in the 3900 block of W. Gardenia Dr. at around 4 p.m.
The television presenter adds the words “near Battlefield City Park.” Which they prefer to call Trail of Tears Park because, well, guilt, I guess.
I was sitting on my front porch reading when I heard the sirens in the distance; that location is across the large field across the farm road and on the other side of a growing subdivision in Battlefield proper.
My beautiful wife and I planned a walk around that time at the city park, and as we crossed the state highway, we say a large police presence. I thought it might be an accident.
As we started looping around the park, I told my wife about the time a trio of teenagers drove across the park, just up the little ramp, across the field, and across the vacant lot on the other side, taking a short cut as a lark.
As we were walking, I saw a sheriff’s deputy going down the road along the side of the park, on the other side of a row of houses. I then saw a Battlefield police car going down the same road, and he came around into the park and drove up that ramp and to the center of the park, wherein he sat of a moment, turned around, and came back down the ramp.
“Oh, they’re looking for someone on foot,” I said to my wife. And so my head was more on a swivel than normal. But no danger to us.
Isolated incidents are likely to become less isolated as time goes by, ainna?
Sound like the name Battlefield is becoming more appropriate?
Strangely enough, the battlefield (Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield) is not in Battlefield. Yet.
Although closer to Springfield than Republic, it has not grown as rapidly. I guess it’s because there’s a major road that turns into a US highway that runs from Springfield to Republic and beyond, but only farm roads for the most part between Springfield and Battlefield.
But someday Nogglestead (and maybe the battlefield) will be part of Battlefield.