Posted on 08/06/2007 6:20:18 PM PDT by 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!"
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Sopranos....
More likely bloods.
Does this suggest a cure?
yeah, billboards will stop ‘em
A testament to NJs tighter gun laws ;0
M-13?
Midnight basketball?
I wouldn’t doubt it; their presence has tremendously increased in the Long Island/NY city area...likely spreading out to NJ, not far away.
Pictures here:
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3 Dead in Execution-Style Killings in Newark (NJ)
where are the 100,000 police officers?
From what I heard there kids killed were good kids with no police record. They apparently text messaged each other saying we better get out of here before they kill us.
Doubt it. I’d bet one or two of those killed was a material witness to some other gang activity. This is what the gangs are doing to quiet the crowd.
you mean the ones clintin promised? I do have thar right don’t I? Didn’t clintin/gore promise that????
Authorities believe the shootings were a random robbery committed by several assailants and that some of the victims may have tried to resist their attackers. They were piecing together details of the attack from interviews with Natasha Aeriel.
Now, does anybody remember a hundred thousand new cops? This was her(clinton) husband's program, which was a sham from the get-go. The way the hundred thousand new cops or whatever the number was worked, was the federal government would pay for these communities to hire new police officers, and then after each year, the federal government's share of what they paid -- the salaries of these new hires -- would decline, would decrease. Finally, after a few years (and we've reached the years), the states or the local communities have to pick up the salaries of the hundred thousand cops that were hired, and it never ended up being a hundred thousand cops in the first place. So now the program is supposed to be expired. It has run its course. "That program was created under President Clinton to put more officers on the street. The original program expired seven years ago, but Congress has kept funding it."
My ex brother-in-law is a cop in Newark...carries three guns.
BAN GUNS! While laws against murder and the like are ignored by the sub-human scum who would do such a thing, SURELY they’d obey a GUN BAN!
/obviously sarc
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