When the deputy was reported shot on the local news, I immediately called my daughter to see where she was. She cleans law offices in that area and also the neighboring town where the SOB holed up in a motel and killed himself when the cops cornered him........................
I didn't know they process serve in law offices. Maybe if they don't know where the person is but usually serve at home or maybe work.
It seems like maybe when those things are being served, some kind of protection by police would be in order but they can't do everything.
That shooter hit the sheriff's deputy so fast, he didn't have time to pull his gun, presume he was armed. Just took him by surprise and fled.
There is just too much of this sort of thing. Maybe I don't know what the past was really like, well, there were a whole lot fewer divorces and I never heard of a restraining order until was well into adulthood because hardly anyone would have felt the need to use them. They are ineffective anyway.