I just wanted to give everybody a heads up about an incident that happened on Linwood on 11/01. A couple were walking to their car and were held up at gunpoint. The wife's purse was stolen and the husband was shot in the leg with a .22 caliber gun. They were unable to identify the assailants to the police since it was about 1:30 in the morning and the two people were wearing hooded sweatshirts. The police and paramedics told the victims they thought it was a pellet gun that was used. The victims went to the emergency room and were informed by the doctors it was a .22 caliber bullet.
That night, 2 other shootings occurred. Both victims were shot in the leg. One of the shootings occurred on Fillmore. Interesting note, the wife's bank card, in the stolen purse, was used to buy gas on Fillmore. Unfortunately, that gas station doesn't have cameras. The police are investigating, but it doesn't look like the perpetrators will be identified. The crime did not make the Buffalo News because the police report list the weapon as a pellet gun(So I have heard)
Please be careful.. Make sure to have some outside lights on outside.... Don't put yourself in vulnerable positions...Be AWARE of your surroundings
We used to rent an apartment ont hat block back in 2003-2005 and I have to say I always felt that part of the street was way sketchier thanks to the Utica/Main street area. Nicer houses, sketchier neighborhood/apartment building scenario. I hated taking the subway home form UB and getting off there. People think Allentown is sketchy, but honestly, there are a lot more people around which makes it not half as scary.
Yeah that Area can be a little rough I guess. I can't figure out why you would shoot someone maybe they didn't hand the stuff over quick enough or maybe one of the people thought wait if they go to there car they can call the cops or follow us or something like that.
Thanks for this post. My niece lives in that block and had her apartment broken into. I'll definitely pass along this info to her. Craziness!
Not to mention slavery to companies who MADE THIS EVIL gas guzzling vehicles at the expense of suppressing research and development on solar/electric/alternative fuelled vehicles.
Brain damage (probably through an earlier shooting).
(And of course depression at the state of affairs where the nation is doling out $700bn to people who can fill the whole country's gas tank with their wealth for a century.)
What must have happened to an individual where they would put a bullet in a stranger to fill up their gas tank.
This is troubling and worrisome. But mostly, I am annoyed. WHY? WHY SHOOT PEOPLE?? Ok, you want the money and the credit card (and that in itself is rotten), but WHY shoot people as well??? Not only do you rob people and harass them, you need to aim and shoot as well and probably cripple them??
This is two blocks from where I live TWO blocks that I walk on all the time. ALL the time. I have walked these streets (well not that block but from work -> home) now at almost all hours of the day (if you look at the whole ~1.5 years I have been living here).
I hate it that thia makes me feel threatened. I hate it that this will probably interfere with my work someday. I simply dread the fact that maybe I might get shot at with "pellet" gun and my bone will splinter and that I might limp for life.
This is so sickening. :/
I agree we need a neighbourhood crime watch. But really what good will come out of it?? Police won't report crimes, residents would and the police would probably go to lengths to deny it because it is yet another black mark on their anti-crime efforts. They obviously don't want to add to the crime statistics.
I hate these people who shoot at others. I hate the circumstances that have made them so heartless. I hate us all who have made this possible by causing the whole society to go out of financial whack by our hoarding and greediness so that the penniless among us are driven to shoot the well-off.
/*End of rant*/
Thanks for posting. :( I probably need to mend my erratic ways and look more impoverished that I already am by wearing tattered clothes.