Feral Amish?
Party on, Bros, party on!
Ugh.
When does the non-Rev. Al fly in?
Oh, he’s not coming?
Thugs be thuggin’....
I guessed.
Correctly.
Again.
And libs wonder how stereotypes perpetuate.
I remember when Martin Luther King, Jr. was shot my dad walking into the house and telling me that North Omaha was rioting, and that fires were burning.
I was kind of scared, I guess, although I didn’t really need to be, since we lived in the SW part of town. Well, Ralston, actually.
A lot has changed up there since then. They tore out a lot of the worst parts when they put the new freeway through.
But I suppose some things haven’t changed that much.
Obviously, parties should be banned in Omaha.
Isn’t a multi-culti neighborhood great?
Family reunion or stop the violence gathering?
Obviously the moms demanding somethin’ desire for intergalactic background checks would have stopped this way before it ever happened............... crickets.
RIP.
Even more toward the end.
About 20 people were inside the house at the time of the North 32nd Street shootings, Matuza said. People were pushing and shoving one another as police arrived, and at least two people were ticketed on suspicion of disorderly conduct, he said.
Sounds a bit like it may be a 'no go' zone.
North O is a toilet. If it wasn’t for a couple of decent rib joints, you could flush everything east of 30th and north of Maple.
No free lingerie/no peace!
Ummm... why don’t urban black people sleep at night?
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like they’re always up and about in the wee hours of the morning when the shootings are most likely to happen. Put down the doobie and/or the malt liquor, say good night to your friends and go the **** home and get some sleep.
Omaha shootings that killed 3 likely tied to vendettas within gang
By Emerson Clarridge, Maggie O’Brien and Paige Yowell / World-Herald staff writers
A lingering dispute among three sects of the Bloods gang is likely behind one of the worst single shootings in recent Omaha history, according to a person familiar with the police investigation.
Three people were slain and five others were wounded at 1:44 a.m. Saturday during a party at a northeast Omaha house. Four men and four women were hit as multiple shooters exchanged gunfire, Police Chief Todd Schmaderer said.
The eight were among 10 people struck by bullets late Friday and early Saturday. “The violence we are seeing here is the product of gang members who have no regard for human life,” the chief said at a press conference Saturday afternoon. “We will do everything in our power to bring the shooters to justice.” Top police officials, including Schmaderer and his deputy chiefs, were at the Parker Street scene in the early morning hours. He said some suspected gang members who were there — amid sobbing family members — showed no compassion for the dead. “We will not stand for this level of violence,” the chief said.
Schmaderer also said the latest violence is part of a constant cycle of gang retaliation that goes back as much as two or three years. Those killed at 3402 Parker St. were Jakela Foster, 19, Latecia J. Fox, 24, and Cameron R. Harris, 26. Both women were pronounced dead in the front yard; Harris died in the afternoon at the Nebraska Medical Center.
The four male victims shot at that address are documented gang members, the chief said. He said the house was unoccupied and empty of furnishings, but partygoers were inside and outside the home.
Two people were shot about a block away, at 1710 N. 32nd St., just after 10 p.m. Friday. Their injuries were not considered life-threatening. The chief also described that shooting as gang-related.
He vowed a heavier police presence in the area to prevent retaliation. But Schmaderer also called on the community to help — to provide information to police.
He said “the vast majority” of the 40 to 50 people at the party would not talk to police because they might have feared retaliation, but he urged them to contact authorities now. He promised to keep any contacts confidential.
“We have means at our disposal to protect what you say to us and protect your safety,” the chief said. Mayor Jean Stothert echoed the chief’s call for help. “These witnesses must cooperate with police to arrest those responsible,” she said in a statement. “We need a cooperating community.” Nearly half of Omaha’s 33 homicides last year involved either a victim or suspect with a gang affiliation, police have said.
The Parker Street shooting appears to be one of the worst in recent Omaha history.
No one could recall a single crime scene with that many shooting victims, other than the mass shooting at the Von Maur department store in 2007. Eight people were slain there and five injured by a gunman who took his own life after his rampage.
In July 2012, 10 people were injured in six separate shooting incidents over a weekend. All those victims survived.
One of the victims of Saturday’s Parker Street shooting, Cameron R. Harris, was injured in a Nov. 29 shooting at a west Omaha bar. Harris and two other men were shot but not seriously hurt about 1 a.m. in the parking lot of the Rehab Lounge near 120th Street and West Center Road. David J. Brown, 21, is awaiting trial on felony assault charges. The same gang factions involved in the Parker Street homicides also feuded at Native Omaha Days in 2013, the person familiar with Saturday’s case said.
Fights at hospital
The emotions of the victims’ relatives flared at the Nebraska Medical Center about an hour after the Parker Street shooting. A large disturbance drew officers from across the city to quell the crowd. Two people were arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct, and one person had to be subdued with a stun gun.
Omaha police locked down the facility from 3 to 3:30 a.m. after “scuffles” took place outside the emergency department, said Taylor Wilson, a hospital spokesman. Patients already inside the emergency department were not moved.
“Everything operated as normal inside. We just were not allowing other people to come in at that point,” Wilson said. He was not aware of any ambulances that were diverted during the lockdown.
Beneath a street light shortly before dawn near the Parker Street shooting scene, two men hugged each other and moaned. A relative of one of the victims pleaded unsuccessfully with a police officer to take her to one of the bodies in the front yard of the home at 3402 Parker St.
“I just want to know if it’s her,” she said again and again. Later in the morning, more friends and family of the victims gathered, talking with police and comforting each other.
The neighborhood where the shootings occurred, near Prospect Hill Cemetery, is also home to a barbershop, Shaves and Fades, and a liquor store. The house where the shooting occurred earlier Friday is near a playground and community garden.
Other violence
The weekend shootings follow a burst of violence in the city this month that included two other slayings last week. Roberto Gonzalez, 20, was shot to death Thursday near 24th and P Streets. Jameson Toler, 29, was shot and killed the same morning in a parking lot at the northwest corner of Maple Street and Maplewood Boulevard.
The city has recorded nine homicides this year, 11 since Dec. 21. At this time last year, there had been one. Stothert, who was in St. Louis visiting her mother this weekend, also said in her statement: “Chief Todd Schmaderer and I are committed to reducing gun violence through community policing, providing resources our officers need and making our city safe for everyone.”
Contact the writers: 402-444-3106, emerson.clarridge@owh.com; 402-444-3100, maggie.obrien@owh.com; 402-444-1414, paige.yowell@owh.com
Gang sects? Who knew ? Kinda sort of like Muslims then?
LOOK at how the Civil Rights Movement has succeeded in helping urban blacks “escape” the mean streets of the cities!