Reply With QuoteNothing to get upset about...just ask da Mayor..."all isolated incidents!"
OMG! I know they have been shooting them up lately in the city but a record. Sabres and Bills cant make the playoffs but shooting are a record in the city. Nothing from Mayor erkel on the subject? I wonder if the shooters have pistol permits with erie county.
Its the heat.. That happens all too often, especially in the summer in Buffalo. And that may help explain why at least 37 people were shot in the city during July, according to statistics The Buffalo News compiled from Buffalo police reports. In fact, more people were shot in Buffalo in July than any other month so far this year.
Gunfire accounted for four of the city’s five homicides last month. At least 33 people were wounded in 28 shooting incidents.
Carmen Rivera handed out plastic containers with chocolate milk and bologna sandwiches Friday morning in Riverside Park, as more than a dozen children stood in line for the start of the day’s free summer lunch program.
Beaming sunshine, soaring seagulls and a view of the Niagara River created a picturesque summer scene.
But the scene is not always so rosy at the park in the northwest part of the city.
Lunch program staff members sometimes find discarded drug needles from the night before lying around the grounds where they serve lunch. Fights among young people are not uncommon.
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And last month, two people were shot in the park – one on the basketball court in the middle of the afternoon.
“They bring the beef from the streets, and they bring it over here,” Rivera said.
[Related: Police insist spate of shootings doesn’t point to crime wave]
That happens all too often, especially in the summer in Buffalo. And that may help explain why at least 37 people were shot in the city during July, according to statistics The Buffalo News compiled from Buffalo police reports. In fact, more people were shot in Buffalo in July than any other month so far this year.
Gunfire accounted for four of the city’s five homicides last month. At least 33 people were wounded in 28 shooting incidents.
The first shooting at Riverside Park occurred July 17, when an SUV pulled up and shots were fired from inside, striking a man in the hip. Another shooting occurred July 27 on the basketball court, when a 14-year-old boy was hit in the shoulder.
But Riverside Park wasn’t the only spot where multiple shootings occurred or occurred within just a few blocks of each other:
Two shootings occurred on Fulton Street in the Commodore Perry Homes. On July 10, a man showed up at Erie County Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the calf. On July 30, two males were shot in the same 100 block of Fulton.
Two shootings occurred near Schiller Park in early July. In the early morning hours of July 5, a man was shot in the leg on Sattler Avenue in what police described as an accidental shooting stemming from “celebratory gunfire” tied to the Fourth of July. On July 8, a male was shot near the corner of Block and Theodore streets.
Two shootings happened over four days on the 1200 block of East Delavan Avenue, a few blocks east of Bailey Avenue.
All of the gunfire leaves residents struggling to cope.
In the Commodore Perry Homes, a 22-year-old man who has lived there 11 years said he tries to keep to himself and doesn’t go outside his apartment with his fiancée or two young children after the sun goes down.
“It’s not cool to be outside around here at night,” said the man, who declined to give his name for fear of becoming a target of violence.
A 17-year-old who moved to the Perry Homes about 18 months ago with his family said he doesn’t go outside his house at night.
The violence in the area is the result of a combination of gang members, drug activity and young people just causing trouble, the teen said.
He said he knows of four or five shootings in his neighborhood since he moved there. “It’s dangerous out here,” he said.
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Nothing to get upset about...just ask da Mayor..."all isolated incidents!"
Cheek, better stop saying things about the City, especially things that are true. Otherwise Linda & 300miles will accuse you of sitting in a BarcaLounger!
I'd like to know how many "wide right" shootings don't get reported because no one got hit.
That's pretty good, nogods. I'll have to remember that line.
good thing they're bad shots
Even Derenda seems to no longer be buying the mayor's comments about it being a safe city
“We have recovered more than 500 guns so far this year,” Derenda said. “That’s way up. But so are shootings. It is a very dangerous climate for our officers right now.”
http://www.buffalonews.com/city-regi...icers-20160810
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Stop saying these things!!!! You're not perpetuating the narrative!!!! Why don't you move to (fill in the blank) if you don't like Buffalo. I bet you never go to concerts and sit in a BarcaLounger. I figure I'd better say it because Linda & 300miles haven't chimed in.
37? How many victims and perps were white?
What percentage of the city is white?
37? How many victims and perps were white?
Do you really have to ask??
wow..wow busy few days in the city now a double shooting.. but mayor erckel is more worried more about Wing Fest than what is happening in the black areas of the city. He has said nothing about the recent shootings or the commish drummer.
Third homicide in three days raises Buffalo's 2016 homicide total to 30.
A violent weekend in Buffalo continued into Monday.
A 24-year-old man who was shot late Monday afternoon on the city's West Side became Buffalo's 30th homicide of 2016. It also was the third homicide in three days.
On Saturday, a 25-year-old woman was fatally shot on Shumway Street. On Sunday, 39-year-old Earl Parker was killed in a double shooting on Schreck Avenue.
Monday's fatal shooting happened about a block away from the deadly July 25 shooting on Vermont Street of 27-year-old Christina Banks.
this is interesting why not bring the state police and the national guard and start cleaning the gangs up?
http://wivb.com/2016/08/23/buffalo-p...gang-violence/
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Originally Posted by grump
you had the kid that got shoot in the head over some gang crap. another one last night and that's all these news people and the snooze talk about is sit in traffic and see the duck.
Buffalo police are investigating an overnight shooting at Orleans Street and Westminster Avenue.
Police say a 21-year-old Buffalo man was hit by gunfire just before 2:40 a.m. during a party.
He was taken to Erie County Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
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Shootings in da city...is a common occurrence... now you know why there is more interest in oversize floating duck...how often does that visit our "safe ' city?
With comish drummer and erkel very confused on how to handle all the shooting tit and tat offer a big reward of $2500. wow.
more shooting come forth.. Police investigating fatal East Side shooting on Friday.Buffalo Police are investigating a fatal shooting that occurred just before 9 a.m. Friday morning.
The shooting happened at East Delavan and Floss Avenues. I still say its the hot summer and no NBA basketball.
Police say at a 51-year-old Buffalo man was transported to Erie County Medical Center where he was listed in grave condition and underwent surgery.
Police announced later Friday afternoon that the man had died.
now do these people doing the shooting have erie county pistol permits and did they do course on handle a fire arm..
Two people killed in separate Buffalo incidents Friday
Silence of those who have information about shootings adds to the pain of relatives; mayor says rewards are being offered in five of the cases.
God must love stupid people; He made so many
You're obsessed with the Buffalo mayor but your not seeing the forest through the trees. The murder rate across the entire country has been going up in all cities (but still very low by historical standards). The solution goes far beyond what buffalo does about it's extra 5 murders.
OMG so we have the west side and the east . where the hell is erkel looking for the duck..
Homicides are up 68 percent in Buffalo over the first eight months of the year, and police have solved just three of the 32 killings, according statistics on the Buffalo Police Department’s website.
Seven people were shot to death in August, making it the deadliest month of the year so far.
The police department’s website lists only three of this year’s homicides as “cleared,” but Buffalo Police Commissioner Daniel Derenda said he expects arrests in several cases over the next couple weeks.
Detectives also have solved cases from previous years during 2016, which would boost this year’s clearance rate, Derenda said. like I said u need some help from the state police and the national guard to clean them out of the city. not a word from the FBI office on this stuff. drugs and gangs!!
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