Does anyone know what happened at 49th and walnut today? I came home and the kids outside said there was a shooting on 49th and walnut. The cops had blocked off the road and when I was coming in, the cops were taking 2 crying women away. I haven't seen anything on the news and was wondering if anyone knew.

Thanks for the tip, we will keep our eyes open and
report if we hear something ...

Joely

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Myabe five-to-nine will have heard something, she lives pretty close.

There is one house I can think of on the 5000 block of Walnut I believe in the middle of the south side of the block that gets a lot of "activity", if you know what I mean. Any chance that this shooting was related to commerce in this one house?

Didn't hear a thing about it. I usually walk right by there on my way to the Y, but I skipped the gym yesterday.

Geez... every time I read one of these 'reports', I can't decide if it's a good or a bad thing to know about this. Part of me doesn't want to know since it happens so damned often and it usually involves people who know each other, but part of me knows that it makes sense to know where the trouble spots are so as to avoid them. Sigh...

Anyway, unless I'm heading for the gym, I'm rarely anywhere near there. I try to do everything I need to do south of Spruce!

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Didn't see anything about it in the papers, though I may have missed it. For better or worse, the changes in the neighborhood south of spruce have had essentially no impact at all on the areas around Walnut and Chestnut. In fact, I think parts of Sansom are the sketchiest parts of the area.

In other depressing news, my wife grew up in East Flatbush, Brookyln, and when I opened the NY Times, I said, "Your neighborhood's in the news," which it usually isn't or at least usually isn't in the Times. A story about a kid who got stabbed to death for his Ipod in the middle of the afternoon, two-and-a-half blocks from where she grew up. Bob Herbert--NYT columnist--wrote a piece about the kid's family, who seemed unimaginably committed to their son, and had even moved part of the year to Stroudsburg, Pa., to protect him from the city. They brought him back to see his sisters for the weekend, and this happened.

gpd - I read that story also. What a shame! A lot of East Flatbush has become pretty sketchy in the last 10 years or so.

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i think it was on 49th btwn walnut and spruce, closer to the walnut side. It'll show up on the upenn crime reports at some point. I didn't see anything on the news (we did see an nbc chopper floating overhead).

Do you mean in the Daily Pennsylvanian "Crime Log" section?

Yea the daily pennsylvanian crime log thingy.. I thought it was online but it doesn't seem to be updated in the summer..