(Excerpt from the Silent Hill Chronicle, April 12, 2004)
Headline: Rampaging Teen Baffles Authorities, Family
By: David S. Trujillo
Early this morning, the Silent Hill Police Department apprehended John C. Manheim, an apparently insane young man of almost 18 years. He is facing charges of breaking and entering, theft, and murder, and is in the Intensive Care Unit at Brookhaven Hospital.
John was reporting missing two days ago by Beatrice and Joshua Manheim, his only living relatives and immediate family. "We were worried sick," Beatrice stated. "John had been... different for days now. Before he left, he was ranting something about Josh missing, and a major lead."
"Yeah," Joshua, 9, confirmed. "my big brother was losing it. He kept coming into my room, and looking at me like I was a ghost or something, and then he would pick up a random picture of, like, a dog or something, and he would look all disturbed. The night before he left, I remember he came in and picked up this paper that I use to test-mix colors, so it was basically a mass of scribbles, and then... he asked if this was dad... and... I asked him 'What do you mean?' and he looked like he was really scared, and then he ran out."
Witnesses say that John stumbled into town on Wiltse Road, near Alinda's Flower Shop, and looked distressed. It is thought he entered through the old forest trail, and would explain the vandalism suffered by the First Methodist Church of Silent Hill. He ran to the flower shop (closed for the Easter holiday), smashed in the window, and emerged five minutes later with a machete.
Ben Nathans, a local resident and eyewitness, offers a detailed account. "Yeah, man, he came runnin' in through the construction yard there, and hit that newspaper thing on Wiltse. He got up, ran and broke into the garden store an' came out with this big-a** knife thing. I got real scared and called the cops."
Unfortunately, the SHPD could not respond in time: the young man ran headfirst into a startled group of tourists and began hacking away, yelling like a madman. After kicking and otherwise mauling the bodies, he sat down and "kinda rocked and sang, like you see them crazy people do in movies." As the patrol car pulled up, he then proceeded to start yelling, apparently to match the pitch of the siren. The officer attempted a neutralizing shot into his upper arm, but missed and hit him in the torso due to the youth's unpredictable movement.
John C. Manheim was set to graduate in May in the top 10% of his class, and had been recently accepted by George Washington University.
Headline: Rampaging Teen Baffles Authorities, Family
By: David S. Trujillo
Early this morning, the Silent Hill Police Department apprehended John C. Manheim, an apparently insane young man of almost 18 years. He is facing charges of breaking and entering, theft, and murder, and is in the Intensive Care Unit at Brookhaven Hospital.
John was reporting missing two days ago by Beatrice and Joshua Manheim, his only living relatives and immediate family. "We were worried sick," Beatrice stated. "John had been... different for days now. Before he left, he was ranting something about Josh missing, and a major lead."
"Yeah," Joshua, 9, confirmed. "my big brother was losing it. He kept coming into my room, and looking at me like I was a ghost or something, and then he would pick up a random picture of, like, a dog or something, and he would look all disturbed. The night before he left, I remember he came in and picked up this paper that I use to test-mix colors, so it was basically a mass of scribbles, and then... he asked if this was dad... and... I asked him 'What do you mean?' and he looked like he was really scared, and then he ran out."
Witnesses say that John stumbled into town on Wiltse Road, near Alinda's Flower Shop, and looked distressed. It is thought he entered through the old forest trail, and would explain the vandalism suffered by the First Methodist Church of Silent Hill. He ran to the flower shop (closed for the Easter holiday), smashed in the window, and emerged five minutes later with a machete.
Ben Nathans, a local resident and eyewitness, offers a detailed account. "Yeah, man, he came runnin' in through the construction yard there, and hit that newspaper thing on Wiltse. He got up, ran and broke into the garden store an' came out with this big-a** knife thing. I got real scared and called the cops."
Unfortunately, the SHPD could not respond in time: the young man ran headfirst into a startled group of tourists and began hacking away, yelling like a madman. After kicking and otherwise mauling the bodies, he sat down and "kinda rocked and sang, like you see them crazy people do in movies." As the patrol car pulled up, he then proceeded to start yelling, apparently to match the pitch of the siren. The officer attempted a neutralizing shot into his upper arm, but missed and hit him in the torso due to the youth's unpredictable movement.
John C. Manheim was set to graduate in May in the top 10% of his class, and had been recently accepted by George Washington University.
