An evening of breaking news in Edmond

I sat quietly at the Edmond Soccer Club field yesterday evening, awaiting the end of my 9-year-old’s soccer practice. The coach was talking to the team and about to release them. I sat on nearby bleachers watching my 5-year-old jump from bleacher to bleacher and waiting for him to fall and injure himself again.

Then, my cell phone buzzed.

7:16 p.m.: NewsOK.com Breaking News: Search under way in north Edmond for woman believed armed.

It was a text message from NewsOK’s breaking news team. That’s interesting, I thought, I’m sitting in North Edmond with two children in my care. Knowing that I could be affected, I clicked on the provided link in the text message and learned that police were searching for a woman a couple of miles from where I currently was.

I stored the knowledge away.

As we drove away from the fields, we pulled over as two fire trucks raced by. As I turned north … another buzz on my phone.

7:27 p.m.: NewsOK.com Breaking News: Edmond authorities in standoff negotiations with armed woman.

Wow! At a stoplight next to Lowe’s near Kelly Ave., and Covell Road in Edmond, I clicked on the link and learned that the woman was on the train tracks about a half-mile east of me.

A I approached Covell Road, I saw the previously mentioned fire trucks parked just east of Kelly, apparently (I concluded) to help set up a perimeter and keep people away.