There he took from his strongbox Fura and Tena, his best stones, spirited them away by helicopter and, for a photo shoot, carried them back down the Muzo mine 1,000 metres deep.
The shoot carried on without him.
Much of the shooting carried the distinct sound of American machine guns and squad automatic weapons.
Interim prime minister Hazem el-Beblawi described the shooting, carried out by two men on motorcycles who fled the scene afterwards, as a "callous and criminal act".
Milton's hot shooting carried over from Saturday night, when she had 17 points and 10 rebounds as the Sparks avoided elimination by tying the series.
And instead of tasting like something yanked from the blades of a jammed lawn mower, sunflower shoots carry a faintly almond-ish trace of the seed from which they sprung.
There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the attack, but the police said that some of the bullets used in the killing matched those used in a shooting carried out by a far-left militant group called the Sect of Revolutionaries.
At one end of the spectrum are red-osier dogwood, Russian sage, butterfly bush, St. John's wort and other shrubs whose new shoots carry the flowers or, in the case of red-osier dogwood, the brightest red or yellow color for which the plant is so valued in winter.
The shooting, carried out by a gunman who leapt from the back of a motorcycle outside the offices of the town council, stunned reformers, and the handling of the inquiry into the case has sparked a wave of charges and countercharges in the media and between conservative and reform politicians.
The Spaniard's shot carried plenty of power but Reina should have done much better than merely help it into the net.
