Four College Friends Shot in New Jersey-(executed)

AOL & AP ^ | 8/6/07 | By DAVID PORTER,AP

[Flavius]

NEWARK, N.J. (Aug. 6) - In a city where gun violence has become an all too common part of daily life, these shootings were enough to chill even the most hardened residents: Four young friends shot execution-style in a schoolyard just days before they were to head to college

Three were killed after being forced to kneel against a wall and then shot in the head at close range Saturday night, police said. A girl was found slumped near some bleachers 30 feet away, a gunshot wound to the head but still alive.

The four Newark residents were to attend Delaware State University this fall. No arrests had been made by Monday and authorities had not identified suspects.

The shootings ratcheted up anger in New Jersey's largest city, where the murder rate has risen 50 percent since 1998. The high number of killings have prompted billboards in the downtown area that scream, "HELP WANTED: Stop the Killings in Newark Now!"

[SuziQ]

This is what bad parenting and the absence of a nuclear family with a strong moral ground have wrought: monstrously evil, amoral, directionless kids that join gangs in order to "belong," and who have no regard for life and no sense of personal responsibility.

So true. The gang is the only family they know, because they're the only folks who spend any time with them.

[AndrewB]

What does Marcellus Wallace look like?

[VOA]

M-13?

I'm no expert on gangs...but I did live in Los Angeles during
1995-2005.

At least at that time, those fellows were reknowed for their use
of machetes.
Apparently, they learned that the threat of having limbs hacked
had a very clear mental effect on folks they threatened.

But I suspect those blood-suckers probably packed heat for the time
they happened on someone that was equally prepared for combat.

[Calpernia]

See link at post 10

[GinaLolaB]

Maybe these gansta thug infested cities should call in the National Guard.

[Calpernia]

Oops, I thought you were looking for a picture of one of the kids. Never mind.

[basil]

Maybe if you read the article and watched the video, you would have a different opinion.

[Hoodat]

This can’t be. I thought guns were illegal in New Jersey.

[starlifter]

STOP SNITCHIN’!!!

[GinaLolaB]

This evening I was watching Canadian news and they said that there have been 50 murders so far this year in Toronto. Most of them gun crimes.

I remember that song by a Canadian rock group, The Guess Who named "American Woman" where they sang "American Woman stay away from me, I don't need you war machine, I don't need your GHETTO SCENE.

Now Canada has their own ghettos. They were interviewing alot of moslems. Canada foolishly imported the same problems that they mocked the USA for.

[RepublitarianRoger]

It’s all very sad when you see some of the few who try to escape caught up in the cultural nightmare so many of their own brothers and sisters have deliberately created, and others have condoned or even encouraged.

...and, in the case of gangsta rap, have made a lot of money condoning and encouraging. Just keepin' it real, you know.

It actually makes me ill that, even in the upper-middle-class suburbs, all I usually hear blasting out of kids' car stereos these days is some subhuman bleating his angry, amoral, misogynistic filth over a primitively repetitive beat.

[cherry]

I don't understand today's white kids and I certainly don't understand today's black kids....

what is horrifying is that two of the dead people are girls.....now, why would girls be targeted?....

at least the Maifia didn't kill girls but maybe that's just sentimental trash....

[fish hawk]

If only we could have Obama and some of the Lib/Democrats come and talk to them. I’m sure they would change their ways. (sarc)

[philetus]

what is horrifying is that two of the dead people are girls.....now, why would girls be targeted?....”

Some of the gang members would be puzzled by that question.

[Chunga]

In Atlanta, the price of homes inside the I-285 perimeter is skyrocketing, and the affluent are gentrifying areas once considered horribly dangerous. A lot of low-income families and individuals are being forced to relocate to areas away from the city. Intown neighborhoods are transitioning for the better all over the place.

It seems like a Renaissance of sorts.

[Sender]

There are probably many times the number of guns in Georgia as in New Jersey. Youths grow up around guns. Yet, here too, the only ones going around shooting each other are a few black or latino inner-city thugs. I live in a rural community where all the youths are deer hunters. They have access to all kinds of guns. They aren’t shooting each other. Clearly, the problems are a lot harder to deal with than blaming guns. I admit that I don’t know what to do about the inner cities. I just am glad I don’t live there.

[Sender]

I’m glad if there is a Renaissance in Atlanta, but still I would rather not go there at night. I can walk around up here all night long.

[Malacoda]

Yep. I was taking older nieces to a concert at the Tweeter Center in Camden last summer, and we got a bit lost. Scared the wee out of me.

[Old Mountain man]

Hiding in the mansion or riding in his SUV with the lights and sirens on, what else?

[dfwgator]

All gang members should be sent to Gitmo, they are domestic terrorists.