Son and father.
Posted on 02/09/2015 9:32:58 AM PST by Vigilanteman
Responding to a mall-wide brawl in December and a triple shooting in a Macy's department store Saturday night, officials at Monroeville Mall say teens visiting on weekend nights soon will need to be accompanied by an adult.
Monroeville Mayor Gregory Erosenko said he will reopen a police substation inside the mall that had been closed for a couple of years. “We aren't going to tolerate this at all,” Erosenko said.
But District Attorney Stephen A. Zappala said officials have long known trouble was on the way.
A consultant hired by the District Attorney's Office urged mall officials to upgrade security last spring because of concerns over drugs and violence moving east from Pittsburgh, but mall management still hasn't used his recommendations, he said.
Zappala declined to say whether drugs were a motivation for the shooting Saturday, when police say Tarod Tyrell Thornhill, 17, of Penn Hills opened fire inside Macy's and wounded three people — two of them critically.
Police said Macy's surveillance footage shows Thornhill approach Davon Jones, 20, with a semiautomatic handgun, exchange words with Jones and then open fire.
Just as Thornhill fired, police said, Thomas Singleton, 48 . . .
Background on the February 6th incident.
Background on the December 26th incident.
All I know it now that they have a Harbor Freight Tools store here in Greensburg, I am not going to Monroeville anymore. It was a nice town before urban ferals started moving in.
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If they are unable/unwilling to behave in a civilized manner, why should civilization allow them the privileges of civilized citizens?
It isn’t “teens” that is the problem. Most young people can be totally trusted at the mall. It’s only a certain few...
As long as the malls have sneaker stores, and stores that play rap loud, there will be problems.
Bookstores and work boot stores don’t attract trouble.
They’ve been doing this for years at the Mall of America.
If you want people with money to visit your store, they need to feel safe doing so.
I would allow the teens to come to the mall if they have a permission slip signed by their FATHER.
They do if they are close to the places that play loud rap music and sell sneakers. This weekend’s incident happened at Macy’s.
Yeah, good luck enforcing this edict.
Who wants to buy or sell drugs out on the freezing streets when you can do it in a nice, comfortable mall? And maybe entertain yourself by peering in at the windows and admiring the goods, or maybe going in and pocketing a few of them?
Son and father.
Fight Saturday at Ross Park Mall (another Pittsburgh area mall). I hope Ross is a different issue and isolated, as I have family and friends who live in this area.
Not sure how this rule will be enforced. Will security stop everyone going into the mall to see if they are smuggling in underage strangers?
Wasnt this the mall where they shot the 1978 movie dawn of the dead?
The “problem teens” would have a hard time getting that, given that daddy is either in prison or nowhere to be found. Methinks that’s your point. ;-)
Yes it is.
Signed:Epstein's father
I thought prostitution was illegal?
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