It (merely..) seems that: enroute from a ghastly random-series of happenstance(s) of tragic /random/ narsty! Kind
(and of the level which would break any er, lesser-soul):

You picked a place {unwittingly? perhaps} wherein the same confluence exists: of vicious-personalities acting-out the same sort of vandalism against
..Oh, just any old -thing? -one? which happens to pop-up in their Black-hole accretion disc: indulging selves in Power-Games (which only the Drumpf-inculcated ever 'play').

('Course, this is no query: it's none of my bizness to second-guess from afar), nor yours to 'explain'; we're adults here). 'Seems' is indeed a BS-assemblage;
I just hope that You and Yours have not landed in some terra-incognito--and that there are many [+]s to that locale--Cops not being among these, eh? ;^>

Stay paranoid re COVID though: the long-long body debilitation is (only the latest revelation), but a Fierce one.