Hey Folks,

This is my first post, but I wanted to let everyone know that a group of people were robbed at gunpoint tonight around 1:00am on the corner of 6th and Fitzwater.

Be careful!

cops are buzzing down every side street. Unfortunately the safest time is right after a mugging. Hope they catch the idiots.

Nothing happens for the 8 hours that we are there and then after we leave this happens, it figures.

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I failed to mention it to the forum, unfortunately, but there was also a mugging on 10th/Catherine on Friday at 10 AM! Broad daylight! An A/A male assaulted two people and took a handbag and ran down catherine toward 11th. These guys love to prey on older people going to the italian market for a cheap score. How sad it really is.

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"Lordy, I have loved some ladies. And I have loved Jim Beam. They both tried to kill me, in 1973." ~ Hank Williams Jr.

Those are the ones that really concern me most.

I almost expect to be mugged if walking around in the wee hours (actually it's just about guaranteed at some point -- who else is around at those hours -- the sheep, the wolves and the sheepdogs (cops) stretched too thin).

At 1000 I don't expect to be attacked and don't really want to live in a place where I should (not really for me but how can I let my wife go out on her own and not worry when the drug addicts have become so desperate they do this crap in broad daylight?). Robbery is just about the dumbest crime there is (most people really don't carry a boatload of cash). The thugs willing to do it can be just about the most desperate and dangerous of criminals. Pay attention.

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I'm not saying anything bad about the police, but the simple fact is that in the areas I do business in, it seems harder and harder to find an officer during the daytime. Criminals know this, and will act accordingly.

O.H. Lee - were you in the neighborhood for 8 hrs before this happened. Trying to understand your comment. I live right there but I am rarely out that late. When I am I do get concerned if I am walking by myself. If fact I will take a cab home if it is that late.

Anyway this could happen any where it only takes one jerk with a gun. If they catch someone like this I hope they put them away for a long time.

We finished up around 12 AM after working for 8 hours, and during that time there were no in progress calls. (No robberies, burglaries, etc.) We were in an out of that area, along with others, because of the nice weather and people walking about. And nothing at all happened (I guess that is a good thing) until we went home. That is what I meant.

Also there were two day time robberies point of gun in the past few days. Both around 9-10 AM possible by the same B/M armed with a black gun. I don't have the full description with me, but they did stand out as not being the norm.

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"Simply put it is possibe to have convenience if you want to tolerate insecurity, but if you want security, you must be prepared for inconvenience"
General Benjamin W. Chidlaw December 12, 1954

Don't have all of the info but supposdly there was another one with 2 shots fired at 700 Montrose Street around 12:30 AM.
Preliminary description is the same.

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"Simply put it is possibe to have convenience if you want to tolerate insecurity, but if you want security, you must be prepared for inconvenience"
General Benjamin W. Chidlaw December 12, 1954

Add to that the shooting last night at 5th and Carpenter. 19 year old guy on a bike gunned down with one shot. Pretty sure he is dead. At least that is what everyone on the scene was saying.

Nice to have the warm weather back

Those plans to move to upstate NY just got a little more concrete.

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