Tuesday, April 8

Teens shot in my neighborhood

Uh oh, police have some explaining to do...

Monday morning, I was flying out of Phoenix around 6:35am after 4 long days for Volkswagen driver testing. I landed in Newark, NJ and had my layover delayed even further. It was so depressing to see the NYC skyline from the windows and not being able to go into the city. :( Oh well, I'll be there in a few weeks.

Anywho, I landed in Baltimore (BWI) around an hour later than expected of 5:15pm. I call my roommate and find out that he doesn't know if he can leave the neighborhood as some people got shot and police have the whole area blocked! Oh jeez, what the hell happened there?

He finally managed to get a detective to let him out of the crime scene to come pick me up. We saw the news report on the 11 o'clock news and damn was it a shocker. Our neighborhood has been, for the most part, very safe with many families living in the area. Today's drama was very unusual. I had no idea there was drug activity and narcotics officers scoping out the area.

"Accidental discharge" is never good press for the police. I'm sure the usual procedure of putting the officer on administrative leave will happen until the investigation is complete. I wouldn't be surprised to see a lawsuit(s) from the teens' families...

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/howard/bal-howard0407,0,3205583.story

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