DETROIT, June 30, 2009
Gunmen Shoot 7 Outside Detroit School
Three Victims in Critical Condition After Masked Assailants Fire Into Crowd of Teens at Bus Stop
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Law enforcement officials look over the scene in west Detroit where gunmen in a green minivan opened fire on a group of teenagers waiting at a bus stop near a Detroit school on Tuesday, June 30, 2009. The gunmen wounded at least seven including three who were in critical condition, authorities said. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)
Five of the teens had just left Cody Ninth Grade Academy, where they were taking summer classes, when they were shot at the nearby bus stop.
The gunmen exited a vehicle and "asked for a person by name" before they "opened fire at the crowd," said Detroit Public Schools Police Chief Roderick Grimes.
Detroit Police were looking for two suspects in a green minivan, said spokesman Rod Liggons. Officers were interviewing some of the victims in the hospital Tuesday evening, he said.
The teenagers, four boys and three girls, range in age from 14 to 17 years old, Liggons said. Three of the teens were in critical condition, he said.
Gas station owner Steve Hakim said he saw two people with T-shirts covering their heads run across his lot toward the bus stop. Then he heard about 10 gunshots, saw a boy and a girl fall down and called 911.
"It's pretty scary," Hakim said. "Somebody's got to do something."
Police were reviewing video taken from the gas station's security cameras and took a disc containing the footage, Hakim said.
Another summer school student, 15-year-old Bria Wilson, said she was standing at the bus stop when she heard the gunfire. She said she was facing away from the shooters and ran away after the shots were fired. But she saw a 16-year-old male friend lying on the ground, bleeding.
"They were so close - it almost hit me," she said.
Schools spokesman Steve Wasko said there was "nothing that we're aware of at this time" linking the shootings with any fight or dispute at the school.
He said the shootings happened about 2:15 p.m., about 15 minutes after summer school students were dismissed for the day.
Imam Abdullah El-Amin, who co-owns the Numan Funeral Home near the intersection where the shooting took place, said drug-dealing, prostitution and "hopelessness" are common in the area, he said.
"It's terrible that these things are just laying there, festering, in society - time bombs waiting to happen," said El-Amin, a Muslim minister and candidate for Detroit City Council.
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See all 25 CommentsNot only do these idiots resort too violence, they're not even smart enough to do it in Coleman's home state of Minnesota, but venture out of state for the shootings!
At the moment someone takes a gun and kills someone with it, the killer is NOT thinking about the law, NOT thinking about possible punishment. He is thinking about KILLING, if he is thinking at all.
It may make you feel better to suggest more punishment for more people, but it just does NOT work.
As it stands, 16 year olds ARE now tried and punished as adults in many states, though I can't give you an exact figure on how many!
I was going to say next that the best solution is to keep society running as efficiently as possible and minimize the amount of "insults" that the average person has to take during the typical day---
But, heck! The U.S. is going to 'h*e*l*l in a hand-cart' thanks to Bush and the Republithugs, and team Obama isn't doing much better, SO, I have no great solutions to proffer on this!
The federal government should fear a well armed population. End of story. And if you are a law abiding citizen with no histyory of spouse of child abuse or a felony, then you should be able to own ANY firearm you want. Hell I should be able to buy a fully automatic 50 cal, but the gun grabbers already ruined that.
Law abiding gun owners are extremely rare to have been to blame for something like this. Illegal gun owners are to blame. They also steal cars to commit there crimes, but I dont hear anyone barking about that, nor the drugs they sell, or other violent acts they commit to climb there gang ladders by murderous initiations. Guns can not kill people, cars can not kill people, knives can not kill people.
You can not blame ANY peice of metal for causing the death of ANY one......but you CAN blame the person hiding behind the peice of metal. Maybe we should take away all over your cars, and kitchen utensis, and anything else that can be used as a weapon...... you would be sitting on the ground nakid in your own front yard...after working several yrs in a prison... AYTHING can be turned into a weapon.
You have NO EVIDENCE to prove that statement. The NRA has worked tirelessly to make sure that cops NEVER report whether or not the shooter was a "legal" gun owner or not, just like they NEVER report whether or not the owner had a concealed carry permit (the other LIE the NRA gets you morons to mindlessly repeat is that "law abiding" gun owners with CC permits never commit crimes).
You're right, however, that it's not the "piece of metal" that is to blame for killing people. The blame lies with the NRA and all the stupid, suicidal, anarchists who insist that they, and every other effing imbecile, has a "right" to carry around a piece of metal that has only ONE purpose: to kill people... and then they want us to quit complaining when they end up killing people with those pieces of metal!
We KNOW this world is full of crazy, stupid, depressed, suicidal, criminal, and-or murderous people. WHY they h3ll should be let all those lunatics have guns? Do we all WANT to die? I, for one, do NOT.
Poeple know the problems, but many parents don't want to stay home and raise the children right, (Male & Female). They want the 'State to raise their children and give the parents a 'free' ride while doing it. Bill Cosby isn't just speaking to Blacks, but many people say "Yeah!!! Bill, You tell them ****** how to behave". The same people point a finger at 'X' as the cause but can't see that they are pointing 'three fingers back at themselves........
The NUMBER ONE FATAL OUTCOME OF GUN OWNERSHIP IS SUICIDE. It is NOT "shooting a criminal to save your life". It is KILLING YOURSELF! If you have a gun in your home, your odds of dying from gunfire INCREASE! The odds of your wife, GF, kids, friends, and neighbors of dying by gunfire also INCREASE!
Guns don't promote "safety". They just promote DEATH!
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