BREAKING NEWS – St. Louis, Missouri – The mayor of St. Louis was speaking to reporters outdoors when she was rudely interrupted – by the sound of nearby gunfire.

“Oh, isn’t that wonderful?” Mayor Tishaura Jones said, pausing briefly with a bemused expression, before continuing with what she was saying, FOX 2 in St. Louis reported.

Later, after her joint news conference on safety issues with the mayor of Kansas City, Missouri, Jones wrote about the incident on Twitter.

“I don’t flinch when gunshots ring out; my son and I often fall asleep to a lullaby of gunshots,” Jones wrote. “And when we don’t hear gun shots, but instead we hear a series of thumps, we know people are being pistol whipped. It’s not as rhythmic as bullets ricocheting, but it’s still something you could dance to.”