Sad night at Casa Fiesta...

So, it has been a while since I've blogged but something rather "exciting" happened last night to me, Adam and Jeremy so I thought I would tell what happened. After much discussion of where to go to eat last night, Jeremy was nice enough to drive all the way past our area to go to Casa Fiesta cause I was craving their Chimichanga (which is the best in town by the way!). We got there around 7pm and Adam and I waited just a few minutes in the bar area for Jeremy to get there. I noticed a couple with a little girl sitting at a booth near us and actually thought for a second how it will be crazy to have a baby someday and going out to eat with it and everything. We sat down and were eating, and I noticed some cop car lights outside but just figured they were from something going on on Nolensville Rd. They were there a really long time and I noticed more (there were some little curtains between us and the window so we could just see out a little)... then we saw an ambulance but didn't think a whole lot of it. After a while longer other people were looking out the window next to us so we looked out and there was yellow police tape all around the parking lot and actually blocking our cars in too cause Adam and I were parked right up next to the building by the front door. Jeremy noticed they had moved the bench inside the doorway so that it was blocking the exit so we were pretty much trapped in there! We started to really wonder what was going on... Adam got up to ask the host but he said he didn't really know but Adam saw in the entryway there was blood on the ground! Well, a girl who was sitting on the other side of the restaurant came over by us and she said there was a gun shot right outside the window by their table and that a man who was in the restaurant was shot when he stepped outside for a phone call! I guess he had started to come back in the restaurant after he got shot so that's how the blood got in there, but they went outside to help him so he didn't come in. When they were talking about him they said he was there with his girlfriend and her daughter and I asked if he had a lot of hair pulled back in a pony tail and they said he did so I'm pretty sure it was the man at the table I noticed :( They took him to the hospital and everything, but I found out this morning on the internet that he ended up passing away. They wouldn't let us leave the restaurant till after 9 and we had to talk to an officer and give him our name and address info. I was getting really irritated at all the people in the restaurant being frustrated they had to stay inside while the police documented everything because at least we were all inside and safe when someone else had just lost his life. It was sooo sad because I guess they wouldn't let his girlfriend leave so she was in the restaurant still and she was just crying so hard, and I felt so sad for her.

Maybe I'll do another blog later about the rest of our Thanksgiving weekend, and I'll have some pics later too.