One year later

[TheeBadOne]

Wednesday marked the one year anniversary of the suicide by cop drama at the Red Caboose Daycare in Madison.

It was early morning March 9th, 2004 when Gregory Velasquez entered the Red Caboose Daycare and attacked staff member Gary Dosemagen with meat cleavers. Velasquez then took another staff member hostage in front of a group of young children and police stormed in. Velasquez refused to drop the cleavers and was shot and killed by police.
Sandra Spann's daughter elizabeth was in the room when Gary Dosemagen was cut by Velasquez, but did not see police open fire. A year later, her daughter seems to have put it behind her. Sandra is still impressed with how the daycare handled helping the children deal with the violence.

At the daycare today it was business as usual. They are trying to put the incident behind them. Gary Dosemagen is back teaching.

The two Madison Police Officers who shot and killed the man at Red Caboose Day Care were cleared of any wrongdoing.
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I remember when this happened, do you? No outcry about 'the Police' shooting this guy (unlike the chainsaw incident). Guess kids being there makes all the difference....