The phone at mary’s house has been ringing for three minutes nonstop, but she ignores it. she has watched a news item on the tv that has made her freeze with panic. three days before, four men entered a jewelry store carrying mallets and guns and ordered the people inside to get on the ground. among the people in the store was sergeant bruce prothero, a police officer and father of five who had a second job working as a security guard at the mall. the men grabbed almost $500,000 worth of jewelry and sprinted out; sergeant prothero dashed after them. in the mall parking lot, the men shot him three times from the car. sergeant prothero died as the men sped away.