Reports are coming in of shots fired at Sheridan and Lawrence as well as Wilson & Hazel. Here is one reader's account:"So I was coming home today waiting to turn left on Sheridan going east on Lawrence at around 6:20PM and there was a group of guys hanging outside the "S Pantry" and then suddenly one guy walked up to them and opened fire I believe. Not sure if it was a real gun or a fake gun, because it didn't sound too loud...but I wouldn't know since I never heard a real gunshot. Then the guys that were hanging out of "S Pantry" started to run south on Sheridan."
Update: "On the Sheridan shooting, the convenience store took a bullet to the window at 4757 N. Sheridan."
Update #2: Reports of shots fired at 900 W. Wilson
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Police camera should nail the gunman, right?! What good are these things, anyway? In Uptown, gangs aren't even afraid to fire right in front of a cop!
ReplyDeleteThis does NOT sound like the Uptown I know!
ReplyDeleteOh, wait...
I could have predicted this w/ the gang graffiti increase right there. Awful, good thing nobody was hurt. Maybe S&L will be more proactive about its loitering (though I doubt it) like Papa Ray's is. Papa Rays is great, btw, for anyone looking for hit-the-spot-za.
ReplyDeleteThe young males that hang outside the S&L pantry are not exactly gentlemen. I wonder what the epicenter of crime in Uptown is? I'm guessing Broadway & Wilson, however, Sheridan & Lawrence is pretty chaotic as well. The owners of the S&L pantry don't seem to mind the loiters and drunkards that cause mischief outside.
ReplyDeleteGet ready Uptown! What do you get When the weather warms up and there longer days. Increased Gang Activity. Remember to vote for alderman in upcoming general election. Your vote counts!
ReplyDeleteAt my former perch at Lawrence House, I always had full view of this corner. There were ALWAYS loiterers there.,
ReplyDeleteWas there too. Gang of 12 guys came out of the alley on Lawrence and clearly knew what was going to happen right before it did. 7-8 shots fired. My phone couldn't dial 911 so I tried to borrow someone elses phone but was met with apathy. People were actually laughing and told me that this happens all the time. Maybe but this is still my neighborhood and this should not be happening! Especially at 6:20pm. If I hadn't decided to try and cross the street because I had a bad feeling I would have ended up directly in the middle of the shots since the shooter was firing directly where I walk.
ReplyDeleteOk. Exactly when is cease fire supposed to take place in my neighborhood? My point of view is that everyone knows that nice weather breeds a surge in gang violence,like I said in past caps meetings, curb it before it gets our of hand.also instead of having a day care center for those bums who hang out on Sheridan and Lawerence (which is the building across the street. They clump up an go in there and get special care, I'm assuming a meal, donations ect.)they need to put a big brother organization in place of bum babysitting. Due to the fact that they're are really young boys that are now involving them selves in gang activity.
ReplyDeleteOh yea by the way I live,work and shop in uptown, can I see my hard earned tax money start working please?
ReplyDeleteS&L Pantry has to go along with Rest Shelter. That corner would be entirely different! Illegal activities are going on in the store and outside. This place has to go, clean up the whole building!
ReplyDeleteI haven't seen anyone hanging out over by Magnolia/Wilson yet, but the weather is only now warming up.
ReplyDeleteThere's new graffiti at the Wilson stop on the south side, but it just looks like scribbles.
The same man is still hanging out (all day, it seems) in front of the Wilson Men's Hotel...I don't know if he's the dude I heard sells single cigarettes.
how come you blame the storw owners...iv know many and thy keep telling me, that cops dont help the stores from gangbanger(thy have rights ya know) the owner are from countrys that have it worse then here, and thy dont understand, how are thy to blame for gangbanger?
ReplyDeleteso here we go blameing the store owners, i talk to the many of these people everyday, and thy keep tell me, thy cant do anything but call the cops, i thy try to tell them to leave, the gangbanger go off on them, how come you people tell gang to leave? its not the store owner, but useless cops that are to blame....
ReplyDeletethe lost primeau -- if they're not part of the solution, they're part of the problem. in order for the police to help, they need to call 911. they have no loitering signs posted, so they are entitled to police help if gangbangers are loitering.
ReplyDeleteThe shelter run by the Peoples Church that houses sex offenders and has no drug testing policy makes that area a LOT worse.. the gangbangers are on that corner becuase they know they have a steady stream of junkies and addicts from next door to sell too..
ReplyDeleteIn the defense of CPD, I saw them with thugs "hands-on-the-hood" earlier last week in front of the pantry. CPD was hanging out nearly every day last week at Lawrence/Sheridan. I thanked them for it.
ReplyDeleteThe "unplanned pregnancy that lived" that was shootin' up the town yesterday I'm sure waited until police were off dealing with another public aid recipient elsewhere in the "hood". Sad to say, (and I NEVER thought I'd say this of all people) Uptown needs a police state. Gangsta's, drunks, prostitutes and addicts have and will be here for a very long time unless a serious authoritative force comes down on them all, and hard. Screw deal brokering, community service, court mandated counseling, probation, and reduced sentences. These people are adult children that will never change and seeing them cycle through the system repeatedly will only continue to tax that systems limited resources.
Given resources are available, what is so wrong or hard about cleaning people out? Caught selling "cigarettes" BAM 15 years. Caught prostituting for the 3rd time BAM 10 years. Caught discharging a firearm BAM 20 years. Being a known gang member (domestic terrorist) BAM 7 years just for walking around proudly gloating your thuggery. Public drinking/misconduct BAM 2 years. My point, get these people out of here.
I contact my reps frequently enough asking what can actually been done about these problems, as it stands, we are just to soft and so it continues.
S&L Pantry is part of the problem. Why the dirty sheet in the front window? The place looks like trash and it attracts trash. Imagine if they simply cleaned up the front of their store? Also if they got rid of the sheet and could see out the window they could call 911 when they see loiterers.
ReplyDeleteDo they have a liquor license? Vote the precint dry. Sell pipes for dope smoking? Bust 'em.
Yea the "S Pantry" looks very shady. Only if they had a nice clean looking store the neighborhood might look a bit better. I guess the owner doesn't care? But I would like to see either "S Pantry" close down or remodel to make it "cleaner"
ReplyDeleteYesterday I saw a CPD SUV over by Wilson/Broadway twice and also two bicycle cops.
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