Hopefully the last of the neighborhood drama.

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I live in such a quiet, sleepy little bedroom community. It's always felt safe in my neighborhood. Last week I wrote of my 3AM surprise finding a man setting off my door chime/camera...he looked a bit lost and confused, but I did not know him and called the police. It turned out that it wasn't his first escapade and he has Alzheimer's, it has hit him very fast and very hard. They were approved for caregivers for him, but none were available. He managed to get away from his frail wife several times and police were out looking for him. She had fallen asleep in a recliner while trying to keep track of him the night he was on my porch. Yesterday, after all the drama of the schools here on lockdown, shots fired by the nearby Dairy Queen, my son not well at all, and yes there was more, two squad cars roared down the street and stopped at the home where this man and his wife live. He told her he was going to kill her, she had locked herself in the bathroom. She had her phone and had to call 911, it was pretty dramatic, the police had to break the lock on the door to get in. He wanted her to give him the car keys, and he cannot drive now, the doctors had his license pulled. He said he was going to punch her and kill her and take the keys. She weighs about 100 pounds and he is twice as big as her, so yes, he could have done this. They did take him away in an ambulance, but they had to strap his hands down. A policeman actually rode in the ambulance with the paramedics. I felt so sorry for him and his wife. Of course, this doesn't hit most people so fast and hard. His poor wife is in shock. What a mean disease. We need a cure for dementia and Alzheimer's and memory-stealing illnesses. He won't be returning home again. The wife was told he has some type of Alzheimer's that is progressing really fast, and it isn't safe for him to be home anymore. From what she has said, this has all happened very quickly.