'You Are So Loved'

Maybe I'm missing out on some good ones, but I feel like I don't see a straight-up narrative news story that often lately? This one's from yesterday's shooting in my hometown.

Laura Eggertson:

Lawyer Barbara Winters was headed to a meeting Wednesday near her office at the Canada Revenue Agency when she passed the National War Memorial, stopping to snap a few pictures of the two honour guards standing soberly at attention.

Moments later, after passing by a Canada Post office at Elgin and Sparks streets, she heard four shots. For Winters, a former member of the Canadian Forces Naval Reserve, the sounds were unmistakable.

Turning, she saw people on Elgin Street ducking. She began to run – not toward safety, but toward the shots, and the wounded soldier lying at the foot of the memorial.

As Winters ran, she looked for – but couldn't see – the two soldiers. Her mind went to the hit-and-run death in Quebec of Warrant Officer Patrice Vincent two days earlier, and she instinctively knew the honour guards had been targeted.