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I stifled a snappy comeback that he had rejected police protection and that I wasn’t his personal muscle Instead I said, “Why don’t you tell us what happened?”

Grant pointed up to the second floor

“I was upstairs watching a movie when theshattered”

He pulled the collar of his shirt away to show us glass cuts on his cheek and neck I nodded, but I had no sympathy for Grant The little nicks in his skin only re hundreds of feet in all directions Lit by sundown for bonus points

Grant said, “I rolled off the bed onto the floor When the shots stopped co, I peeked out theI saw a car lurch and head north I got three letters off the license plate”

I wrote down the letters

“What kind of car?”

“I couldn’t tell It was dark colored and had a boxy rear end”

“Like a van?”

He nodded “Could have been”

“How many shots were fired?” I asked

“Four or maybe five”

“Have you gotten any threatening phone calls?”

“Only three or four an hour on my landline ‘You’re lower than pond scued the phone”

I told Grant we’d try to get records of inco calls from the phone company, and I jotted down his cell phone number for the record