People in general appear to be a little too tense.
Well, the other guy immediately held up a large can of spray and zapped our son right in the face. His eyes started burning as he raced to our house, by that time only about a mile away. He later felt so bad, felt so sick and so angry at himself for even thinking about confronting the guy, for sure as shootin', the guy could have just as easily pulled a gun on him. Our son was sickened with fear over what he had done, not for himself, but for his family's sake (wife and two little girls)...he couldn't help but think about the risk he was taking and if something fatal had happened, what it would have done to his wife and daughters. (You'd have to know our son; he's not a confrontational sort of person...he's a very amicable sort of individual, but let the slight of what happened just kind of get to him, and he made a split decision to try to talk with the guy about it, and what it got him was a spray of mace to the face.
Point is, there are a lot of tense people riding around these days. I mean, who carries around one of those large spray cans of mace...seemed like a guy just itching for a chance to zap somebody.
My younger sister and I graduated from that school and both of her boys as well.
We all loved that place. This is very sad news.