Breaking: Shooting in Fort Greene
According to a tipster, there was a shooting a little while ago near the intersection of Fulton Street and Greene Avenue in Fort Greene. There are currently several police vehicles on the scene and the Fulton is shut down. If anyone’s nearby, please send a photo and some more details. The shooting comes on the…
According to a tipster, there was a shooting a little while ago near the intersection of Fulton Street and Greene Avenue in Fort Greene. There are currently several police vehicles on the scene and the Fulton is shut down. If anyone’s nearby, please send a photo and some more details. The shooting comes on the heels of the discovery of human remains around Fort Greene Park.
Update: 5 shot in a barbershop on Fulton, shooter possibly on the loose. Police advising people to stay inside.
Update: NYT Cityroom blog has the story here. Four people shot in the hair salon pictured below right; at least one dead.
Update: NBC has a story here.
Here’s a posting and some photos I took of the scene from my roof. Hopefully they’ll catch the guys who did it.
http://umbrooklynborn.blogspot.com/2008/10/unfortunately-5-shot.html
-ubb
I’m sure crime rising has more to do with police force reductions. It seems to me that people who are laid off from jobs because of the economy are not the people who go around shooting each other – it’s a different population – namely kids who are for the most part unemployable because of deplorable education and seriously deprived upbringing.
“Anyone ever seen Dave and Xander in the same room?” Very creative spnder. Xander, or at least his blog persona is a racist. Highly likely that he’s just trying to bait people anyway. I am not a racist but my Love It or Leave It comment was a snarky comment to a very open-ended comment and that was that. If you all can’t grasp that then you need to chill out.
Not the biggest Fort Greene fan, but in it’s defense, stuff like this is rare and when it does happen it happens all over. Wasn’t there a hardcore shootout on the Upper East Side last year?
Anyone ever seen Dave and Xander in the same room? I thought not…
Hope there’s an update on this soon.
Hey DaveinBedsty, the stats for gun violence in the US are off the hook. Check out this passage from the Independent:
“In the US, there are roughly 17,000 murders a year, of which about 15,000 are committed with firearms. By contrast, Britain, Australia and Canada combined see fewer than 350 gun-related murders each year. And it’s not just about murder. The non-gun-related suicide rate in the US is consistent with the rest of the developed world. Factor in firearms, and the rate is suddenly twice as high as the rest of the developed world.”
Why not bring some sensible gun control to this country, to prevent the flow of cheap illegal handguns into the city, as our own Mayor has tried to do by closing loopholes and following through on interstate enforcement?
In any case, whatever you think about gun laws, “Love it or Leave it” is just a silly attitude.
I guess Xander’s post probably takes some of the pressure off of me!!!! Well written too.
I told you that Fort Greene is a shithole it took people years to want to cross myrtle ave and now they area stuck between Lafayette and Dekalb with no where to go but Ghetto.
Sorry…second post. The one where you told me to “Shut the F up already.” That type of post usually wins you a lot of credibility.