Barely an hour after the conclusion of the memorial service for the victims of last weeks Ft. Hood shooting, some lunatic with a gun in Portland, Oregon has opened fire in a strip mall, killing two people and injuring at least ten according to the latest reports. For the love of God when will this end?!?! |MSNBC|
After opening fire on a Canarsie house party early Sunday morning, determined shooters trailed one victim to the hospital and shot him again as he attempted to enter the hospital emergency room where’s he in critical condition. Two others were shot as well: a 22-year-old with a injury to his leg and a 17-year-old killed by shots to his head and torso. |AMNY|
When NYPD officers open fire, there’s a good chance they’re putting a dog down, like the Wednesday shooting which injured three cops and a civilian. One in four police shootings took aim at the animals in 2005 and 2006, and they hit their canine marks with more than twice the accuracy of human targets, who were only hit with 23.4 percent of the bullets fired at them. |NYT|
Just over a month after NYPD Officer Omar Edwards was shot and killed by his fellow boys in blue, a few more cops were injured by friendly fire. Last night, police opened fire and killed a pit bull at an Upper East Side housing project, but struck and injured three officers, as well as the woman who apparently sicced the dog, with bullet fragments. |NYT|
After confronting his baby’s mother with a gun and firing shots at police, Yancy Jiminial, a 21-year-old Bronx man, was shot and wounded by cops who “fired 12 rounds at him, striking him once in the hip.” The violence surprised Jiminial’s sister, who described him as “a good guy” despite his 2006 attack on the ex-girlfriend and previous threats to his own mother and grandmother. With surgery, Jiminial is expected to survive his injury. |NYDN|
Ten people were wounded in Harlem yesterday. Six of them during a “wild shooting spree near a Memorial Day barbecue last night at Marcus Garvey Park,” including a 13-year-old boy and a 15-year-old girl. A mother of an 18-year-old victim who called her to tell her what happened, describes the realities of the mean streets: “I hear about this s–t all the time and I never pictured it being my son,” she said. “But this is New York, and this is Harlem.” |NYDN|
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