The Night My Doorbell Camera Captured a Shooting

The 36-second video changed my perspective on home surveillance

Kimberly Lawson
OneZero
Published in
5 min readJun 11, 2019

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AtAt first, I wondered briefly if the popping sounds we heard outside were fireworks. K, my boyfriend, looked over at me. It wasn’t late — maybe 9 or 10 o’clock on a Saturday night in February. Our one-year-old was asleep upstairs, and we were standing in the hallway, getting…

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Kimberly Lawson
OneZero

Kimberly Lawson is a former altweekly newspaper editor turned freelance writer. Her writing has been featured in the New York Times, VICE, more. kim-lawson.com