Another Shooting on Grand and Putnam
[nggallery id=”21402″ template=galleryview] This is getting really old. In what seems to be an annual occurrence, there was another shooting on the corner of Grand and Putnam last night. The 88th Precinct won’t confirm a thing, but according to several people standing around on the corner this morning, a car drove by last night at…
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This is getting really old. In what seems to be an annual occurrence, there was another shooting on the corner of Grand and Putnam last night. The 88th Precinct won’t confirm a thing, but according to several people standing around on the corner this morning, a car drove by last night at around 10:30 and sprayed an empty parked car with bullets, and in the process hit a female “innocent bystander” in the leg. She was reportedly not killed but, as the photos show, she lost some blood; as you can also see, a number of bullet holes are visible in the side of the building. As most people in the neighborhood are aware, this corner has been a hotbed of illegal activity for years. Two summers ago, after a young man was murdered for saying something insulting about another man’s girlfriend, the block was put on lock-down for the summer, which did temporarily push the drug activity a block or two away—not exactly an ideal solution for the people who lived on those blocks. In the community meetings that always follow, the police act sympathetic and talk about how difficult it is to put drug dealers away, but at a certain point it all rings hollow. If this were happening on the Upper East Side, you can be sure it would have been shut down long ago.
Turning Up The Pressure on Grand and Putnam [Brownstoner]
Murder on Putnam: Will The Cops Show Up Now? [Brownstoner]
isnt that the corner Biggie use to swing rock on? Why would you live there if you dont like rock dealers on the corner? The brokers should tell people that they have rock dealers on every corner to trick the gentrifiers into thinking they can get some good bling in the hood.
4:59,
If they’re all petty nickel/dimers and you’re sure there’s no corruption with the 88th cops then this should be real easy to solve.
But, how do you KNOW for a FACT that the shooters aren’t from the neighborhood? And why do you say it wasn’t drug related?
Do you also KNOW for a fact that the 88th did NOT get an offer from a landlord with security tapes to show them?
Yeah okay 5:05 believe what you want…but I have a pulse on whats going in this neighborhood that I’ve lived in for 30 plus years..I know who sells and who buys(including A LOT of newcomers) and I don’t have a high opinion of police..I have no reason to protect them but I do have reason for putting out the truth.
clintonhillchill
im real- real angry just got off the phone with the precinct-the second time I called-after having me on hold for 36 min. and spoke to a bored sounding detective who took my info and said “someone will follow up”and that no one “noticed” that there was cameras every 10 feet”-what are they blind?
As for the what- I wont crawl into your sewer-you are wrong on all points-
I have sent an e mail to 7 On Your side & will see what happens.
sounds like someone (4:59) trying to protect his buddies at the 88th precinct…
Please get the facts straight…A woman was NOT shot, it was a man who’s a friend of mine. He was shot in the leg. A car rolled up and started shooting and I KNOW for a FACT the people doing the shooting were NOT from the neighborhood. And please w/ the drug dealer kickbacks to 88th…Where do you get this nonsense?! Most of the people who deal in the area are petty nickel/dimers who live with their moms!! There aren’t kicking anything to 88th, some of you watch too many movies. This shooting was not drug-related, it was random. My friend got released from the hospital and will be missing two weeks of work. I’m just happy it wasnt more serious.
clintonhillchill
The cop who says, “What do you expect from this neighborhood?” lives in Suffolk, Putnam and Orange County. They don’t realize that the people who stayed in Brooklyn frequently did so by choice.
Clearly given the choice they don’t live here nor can they afford to do so.
see…this is why i prefer park slope…
Don’t you guys watch the movies?! When you go after cops who are on the take, they go after you!
Alot easier for me to just rent somewhere else, and not buy in a crime ridden area.