Had something similar (without the gunplay) happen on the way to the Amtrak station in Sanford, Florida. Holy crack town, Batman. Never, ever choose shortest route!
It’s like trying to buy beer in Dallas.
“Hey, dude, this place looks familiar.”
“Yeah, I think I saw in on ‘Cops’. It’s where the drug addict shot at the squad cars.”
Just for fun we put in the shortest route to go from my MIL’s rural home to ours 18 miles away just to see where it would take us. It took us on dirt roads that were barely cattle tracks. If we had really needed to know the way we would have been so lost.