And I have to tell someone, but I can't call my mother because she'll only worry, and everyone else is out.
I left my apartment to get Silk soy eggnog because I had a major hankering for something sweet. The bodega is several blocks away down the avenue, and as I turned the corner off my street onto the avenue I heard a lot of yelling and screaming. At first I thought it was coming from the apartment building directly across the street from mine, because there were young men running in and out and someone yelling at them to get back inside. However, as I passed the building I saw a crowd of maybe three dozen at the other end of the block, and then heard the gunshots. The screaming got louder for a moment and about a third of the crowd dispersed, running down the side streets. I immediately called 911 and watched the crowd for a minute while they took my report. The police came quickly, 14 or 15 cars, and an ambulance -- so quickly I suspect someone must have reported the fight before the shooting broke out.
I told the police what I saw, and then went for my soy milk. On the way back from the bodega I walked by the scene, on the opposite side of the street (I figured with 30 odd cops there and the crowd mostly gone and quiet that it was safe), and overheard a cop say into his radio, "Three males shot."
What with the alligator on one end of my street last month and the shooting at the other end this month, it's turning out to be quite the eventful season in the hood! In seriousness, though, I hope the men are alright.
I left my apartment to get Silk soy eggnog because I had a major hankering for something sweet. The bodega is several blocks away down the avenue, and as I turned the corner off my street onto the avenue I heard a lot of yelling and screaming. At first I thought it was coming from the apartment building directly across the street from mine, because there were young men running in and out and someone yelling at them to get back inside. However, as I passed the building I saw a crowd of maybe three dozen at the other end of the block, and then heard the gunshots. The screaming got louder for a moment and about a third of the crowd dispersed, running down the side streets. I immediately called 911 and watched the crowd for a minute while they took my report. The police came quickly, 14 or 15 cars, and an ambulance -- so quickly I suspect someone must have reported the fight before the shooting broke out.
I told the police what I saw, and then went for my soy milk. On the way back from the bodega I walked by the scene, on the opposite side of the street (I figured with 30 odd cops there and the crowd mostly gone and quiet that it was safe), and overheard a cop say into his radio, "Three males shot."
What with the alligator on one end of my street last month and the shooting at the other end this month, it's turning out to be quite the eventful season in the hood! In seriousness, though, I hope the men are alright.
I'm glad you're okay, thestrangequark.
Just kidding, that's not all I took away from that story. That's pretty fucked up, glad I don't live in NY. or any other big city. I was born in a small town, I can breathe in a small town....John Melloncamp now in my head.
