It's the fall of 2017 in Rancho, to Hama, California.

A man and his wife are driving to a doctor's appointment when another car crashes into them, sending them flying off the road.

Disoriented, they stumble out of their car only to hear dozens of gunshots whizzing past them.

This is just a chapter of a much larger nightmare, unraveling in their small town.

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We'd lived together by that time for three years already, and then we bought it on a place out here and moved out here.

She loved it, she loved being out in the country, she liked the serenity, the privacy we were kind of out on the edge.

I was never home, I was on the road working construction, I was only home on weekends or between jobs, but it was more about her.

It made her happy to be out here, where we could have space and have our animals and have a garden.

Right now we're looking at snow-capped mountains all the way around, beautiful Mount Shasta and Mount Lassen and everything in between, it's lovely.

We can see the stars, we used to get up on a roof and set up the telescopes and without a lot of ambient light to interfere.

No, we enjoyed the whole experience of being out in the country, it was awesome, but you do kind of have to be tough to live here.

You know what's tough?

Life is tough, life is a challenge, right?

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