“Shots fired. An officer is down.”

A “sniper” opened fire with shotguns on the police officers standing in the intersection of Broadway and Grayson. Six went down wounded from the barrage of rounds fired. Forty nine citizens were injured by shotgun blast and semi-automatic rifle fire. Two died as a result of being struck by the “sniper’s” bullets. The crazed gunman, high on “angel dust,” reigned terror at the Battle of Flowers Parade in San Antonio. This is an account of an officer’s career from “tattoos” to the “Medal of Valor” including stories of a serial rapist, hi-jackers, systematic burglars, a habitual drunk driver, a kidnapping and capital murder arrest and the death of a “sniper.” No story could be without a little humor and sadness; there is a little of each told.