Automatic rifle fire quashed the holiday mood at the Hazel Lake Estates Volunteer Fire Department's Annual picnic and fund raiser, leaving three dead and numerous wounded - including the community's developer.

C.W. Blankenship of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation was about to begin the fundraising raffle when pandemonium broke out, plunging him immediately into the hunt for the attackers. What follows is a long search for motives and identities, punctuated by more gunfire.