It was 11:32 Thursday night when the call went out:
“Engine 18, Rescue One. Gunshot. At 7126 Tangerine Avenue…” barked the police scanner. “You’re responding to third-hand information for a 15-year-old that has been shot. No further.”
Turns out that third-hand information was accurate, because it came directly from Caitlin Mercy, who was at work in Saraland when she got a facetime call from her oldest soon-to-be stepdaughter…