Crossed: Issue 3

Crossed: Issue 3 is the fourth issue in Crossed (Volume One) and the fourth issue overall.

The previous issue is Crossed: Issue 2 and the next issue is Crossed: Issue 4.

Plot
Sometime later, Stan's group find themselves trapped behind abandoned cars as a group of The Crossed look for uninfected people, until they hear someone else and go after them instead. While searching a grocery store, an unnamed member of Stan's group is suddenly shot in the back with a crossbow, and the attacker is shot off of a high rooftop. After going to search them however, they find out it was an uninfected school teacher named Anne who only killed the man to stop his screaming and protect her six students.

Stan's group take in Anne after promising to help the children after she dies of her injuries, since they no longer have a paramedic to help her. The next day, Stan's group comes across a highway where a large group of The Crossed rape and massacre several people who were hiding out in their cars on a highway. Suddenly, a police officer named Thomas walks up behind them and orders them to follow him to his police car and his own group of survivors, and he explains to Stan's group he wants to try and get everything "reorganized". Cindy notices someone in the back of the squad car and Thomas reveals it's a member of the Crossed, whom was arrested before he turned.

Later that night, Cindy tells the group that they won't be able to feed Anne's group of children as well as themselves and it would only be a matter of time before The Crossed get ahold of them and do unspeakable things to them, so the children must be put out of their misery before that happens. Cindy decides that she'll deal with them, but Stan joins soon after so she won't bare the burden alone, and they shoot all six of the kindergarteners.

Deaths

 * Unknown Person - Died off-panel from unknown causes, skeleton shown.
 * Unnamed Man - Shot in the throat with a crossbow by Ann Cooke.
 * Unknown Man - Killed off-panel in an unknown manner by Ann Cooke, mentioned.
 * 50 People - Killed by the Crossed in various manners at the highway massacre.
 * Ann Cooke - Died from her injuries after falling off of a rooftop off-panel, body shown.
 * Six Children - Shot to death by Cindy and Stan, mercy killing.
 * Total - 60