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Narrative Essay: The Case Of Kathy Buckwheat

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Kathy Buckwheat was standing in front of the counter talking to a client, when a man walked in and put a gun to her head. She was going about her day to day life when he walked in and said to her “I could see the gun outline in his pocket and immediately got scared”. Kathy was very familiar with bank robberies given she had been in one before but this time there was firearms involved. “He told me to get down and put my hands on my head and not move. My client being smart was already on the ground, but I slowly went to my knees.” she said in an interview. The shooter was a former military officer and after being caught a few days later said he would not have shot the civilians only the police. At the time Kathy was only in her 50s, and

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