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Overnight shootings on 22nd and 35th Streets
12/07/2011 7:22 AM by John M
Richmond police said they began receiving multiple reports of gunshots about 8:30 p.m., first at North 22nd and Carrington streets and then in the 600 block of North 35th Street.
TAGGED: crime
Apparently two guys were shot, one took a bullet to the chest and is now in critical condition. Many neighbors witnessed the shooting and can even ID the shooters. Will that make a difference? I hope so, though it hasn’t in the past.
#1 Martha, if the neighbors can identify the shooters then they should call the police today and tell them that immediately.
I was blown away by how afraid the neighbors that have lived here forever were about talking to the police. This violence is all centered around one house- what will it take to stop it?
Which house it that?
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (SHOOTING)
12/6/11
9:00 p.m.
2200 block of Carrington Street
A male reported he was shot by an unknown suspect. The victim’s injury was life-
threatening.
1st Precinct
AGGRAVATED ASSAULT (SHOOTING)
12/6/11
9:04 p.m.
600 block of North 35th Street
A male reported he was shot by an unknown suspect. The victim’s injury is not life-
threatening.
601 N. 35th, 702 N. 35th…
shit keeps happening at these two houses. POLICE HAVE DONE NOTHING!
I wouldn’t say they’ve done nothing- After the last 2 shootings- 1 on 35th, 1 at chimbo mart, RPD put together a task force for the area- Police went door to door in the neighborhood and talked to everyone about their concerns for the neighborhood. They assured us they were working on our concerns- but for this to have happened again, it doesn’t seem to have been enough.
2200 block of Carrington Street….whoa….I am so glad I called the police when I heard those shots. It sounded loud, but I had no idea it was only 2 blocks away from me. Let that be a reminder to everyone – call the police each and every time your hear a shot, even if you think it may just be fireworks. You might be able to save someone’s life.
I’ve heard gun shots in the Fairmount neighborhood several nights this week. I agree with you, Rachel; I tend to call it in, and look out all the windows in case I can report anything extra.
@ anon 702 ant got shit to do with nun that went on lastnight and i i cautch u attempting to exploit any1 like this again u might not b able to type bout it again(LAW SUITE. White Ppl are so funny these days movin into a black neighborhood talkin shit. FUCK ALLL WHITIES THEY OWE ME 40 ACRES N A FUCKIN MUEL. Sum people need to jus give it a breK
ANON WHERE U LIVE AT
#9 and #10 –
Are these joke posts?
Sorry, 10 and 11
ppl talk about all the shootins but wer do u think the muscle comes frome to get these guns short note thugs wear suits and uniforms and ties and badges i know three of them on a friend level so think about that the next time u pick up the phone calling fo help thinking u helping some body (( think about it i lost a friend on 6-6-06 shot down by some body with a police issued gun so think bout who u call fo help
so here are some of the details on the 35th street shooting for clarity:
there were around a dozen shots fired in the matter of a few seconds. by the time i looked outside a dark sedan peeled around the corner towards chimbo blvd.
when the police arrived they didn’t find anyone or any weapons. just casings and a damage from stray bullets (my rear car window included).
no arrests were made. the police congregated around the intersection of glenwood/leigh and 35th. most of the neighbors were outside, EVERYONE was concerned. the people who deserve the most blame are the guys who perpetrated the drive by (or stop, shoot, speed away). obviously they don’t live on this block or probably anywhere in the neighborhood.
@10 – your hateful attitude is disgusting and you should be ashamed to show your ass off in public this way. Statements like yours do tremendous damage to race relations.
No group owns any neighborhood. There’s only but so much land on this planet and eventually segregated neighborhoods are going to become an obsolete concept (and are you really saying you think that is a good thing in the first place? Your post seems to imply so).
We all need to learn to get along and an attitude like yours sure isn’t going to do you much good in life.
Alex,
I couldn’t agree more.
Oh, and #10, get off your 40 acres and mule kick. It’s not going to happen. Why do you think we owe you anything at all?
A first of all martha shud not tell ppl her car window was shot out ten white ppl b n da fuckin way we didnt have a problem wif the shooting jus yall not use to it growin up n the hood thats all u hear n c i shoots n bodies n i dont hate white ppl i love the CHAT ppl sum of em
I’m stupefied.
@ 17 u ever heard the term if it don’t let it fly if u kno who did it snitch then we dont care but just kno ur u r not the police they dont give a fuck bout u. U will b the same family in need of them n they won’t respond in enough time. Heart Attack,slip-n-fall, sum1 just stop breathin. They will come n 20 mins 4 u 2 LOL U STILL LUV YO HOOD RIGHT. UR N A URBAN PART OF TOWN THEY SAY FUCK US LET EM DIE. We all are living on a low income because if not u wouldn’t b here
The way ppl put others n danger WE NEED GOD
Laugh out loud glad to know we got neighborhood snitches
It is what it is can’t stand the heat get out the kitchen
Mind your business people they know who they are its not good to be noisy especially about something you totally lost about once again mind your business
Making FALSE STATEMENTS LEAVES TO TROUBLE
OK, so thug idiots are allowed to post trash here but my comments don’t fly?
So the problem is that ‘Martha’ isn’t used to shootings, ‘She?’ Why are you outraged at people reporting what they saw/heard and not that people in your neighborhood were critically wounded? Who has this backwards, you or the rational people in this thread?
Oh, and let’s put away the race card please. It’s 2011.
We’re on 27th and heard really loud shots last night at 9:45 pm, five in a row, then a car peeled away. We called and they said they had reports already, but it couldn’t have been the same thing. We wouldn’t have heard them so distinctly from where we were, and we certainly wouldn’t have heard the car. And it was definitely later in the evening (although not by much). We wondered why we never saw cop cars outside.
If only all those darn snitches could get more comfortable with the idea of drive-by shootings happening on their blocks, THEN Church Hill would be a better place.
Also, I’ve noticed that there is a blatant overuse of punctuation, conventional spellings of common words, and at times, even subject-verb agreement on this blog. I blame this on the snitches, too. Most of those snitches write like they completed third grade or something.
Wow once again people need to mind there business.see nobody posting nothing about making false statements lets get down to the real shit cause false statements leads to lawsuit
#30: You’re solution is people ‘mind their business?’ Let crime run free in and around our homes without being checked or reported?
And MrsAlex, while I agree with most of your sentiments, can we please try to remain civil? Calling out people’s spelling and grammar when 2 people are in hospital beds from gun shot wounds seems petty.
We’re all neighbors. We live together, shop together, kids go to school together. A tragedy has taken place in our midst. Perhaps a little less finger pointing and a little more concern for the community we are trying to build would be beneficial.
Oh I guess I can’t read. I thought this was a thread about shootings. John, you may want to change the title of this thread to “someone made false statements in the hood” since apparently that is the real crime that happened.
With everything that is occurring within My Neighborhood disrespect continues to be ongoing and apparent amongst neighbors. I can walk the streets. Now and I would not b greeted by neighbors because of who they assume I am or associate with. So with that. Being said. To b a community. U have to act like a community ..
My wife heard shots on 24th street (literally outside the window) meaning these cats were riding around firing off shotsfrom one end of the neighborhood to another. She saw people in the street scatter quickly to take cover. She then waited a few minutes and went down the street for drinks at the Roosevelt with Sally Field. We live in a crazy place.
This Mrs Alex need a grip police kill everyday when people come to our Hood with drama its not exceptable at all and yes foe people to talk about two addresses that they only assumes they are making problems that they don’t want come with facts not assumption and we all know who got the big mouth. And Alex give your neighbors some heads up mind their business false statements leads to trouble that they don’t want
O and the person car that got shot out don’t u think that was dumb to post and talk shit
god people, get your cats off the damn keyboards…
Apparantly the education system in the east end has failed.
I also forgot that we should blame the police for all the murders, drugs, and poverty in the east end. I just hate it when the cops drive by my house and shoot at my family.
Honestly, I have never seen such an amazing display of ingorance. People are in the hospital suffering, yet we have trash complaining about their neighbors calling the police.
People on here keep talking about grammar, if you didn’t know they were talking in text, the same way 80% of the world spell when they’re texting on the phone. While you’re trying to be funny.
Well #38 some of what u saying I agree with. However when people make comments that they feel are false and to post false statements just because of assuming is very bad. You can not stereotype it’s not cool. The same people u trying to stereotype hope u will never need them.its funny nobody says these people coming to our area with the non sense. Yea people focused on people houses what y’all got on.people wonder why people do the things they do
@ 36 is the peach house lol i kno u on 35th n M the have the pit bull that always get loose n the naked man that stand in the upstairs window lookin at people (SUPER SICKKK) but…… WE SHALL OVERCOME. NEIGRO ANTHEM… Dont think yall kno about that
I agree that people need to mind there fuckin buisness..how tha hell u gonna call out 2 address’s sayin that thats where all the troubles coming from..Its murderers and rapists all through this world and nobodys pin-pointing them..so how tha hell u gonna pin point 2 particular homes.. get ur mind right..and for tha record yall do owe us 40 acres and a mule..and once we get it tha world might jus be a better place!! and if u cant stand tha heat pack ur bags and go!!!!
oh yeah well 2n bu ur 2 b n f to r 2 b 4 rlz. So there.