When a group of seniors become the target for bold daylight assassination by a “rival gang,” local citizens start screaming, “enough is enough.” Some harmless old men minding their business, doing the same things they do every day, in the same spot, really offended some punks in Baltimore who came out blasting.
Seniors ambushed in gang shooting
Nearly all the victims are seniors with ages ranging up to 70. Four are in in critical condition. One 70-year-old is listed as stable but the condition of a a 55-year-old is unknown and could be serious. Baltimore, Maryland, may be an East Coast city but the anarchist criminals act like they’re on the streets of Tombstone.
“Enough is enough,” declares Pam Curtis, president of the Park Circle Community Association. “It’s all political,” local resident Marvin Knight adds. “The elected officials have failed the citizens of Baltimore City. We didn’t fail the city. The city failed us. Now, it’s like the Wild Wild West.”
The Baltimore Sun writes up the attempted execution of harmless seniors like it was just another gang rivalry. They describe a “group of men were hanging out in a small concrete courtyard near the intersection of Park Heights and Shirley avenues around lunchtime Wednesday when a silver sedan drove up and multiple shooters opened fire, leaving six people injured and one 24-year-old man dead.”
UPDATE: 1 man is dead and 6 injured after a mass shooting in Park Heights yesterday | Tap for more information https://t.co/Uin1wf3hvt
— WJZ | CBS Baltimore (@wjz) August 25, 2022
They make it sound like a dispute over who’s corner that is for crack sales. Then, they start to spill the details and it turns out the youngster just happened to be hanging out with the gang of geezers when the hit team rolled in.
The bold “daylight mass shooting unfolded just after 12:30 p.m. along the busy Northwest Baltimore thoroughfare,” the Sun writes.
Then, they mention in passing that neighbors say “the courtyard is a common gathering spot for older guys, who often would spend their afternoons playing cards.” Harmless seniors taking up valuable crack sales real estate. They simply had to go.
A mass casualty incident
It’s crystal clear to Baltimore Police Commissioner Michael Harrison that hitting the seniors was “a mass casualty incident.” Speaking from the scene on Wednesday, August 24, he proclaimed when “you get out of a vehicle and open fire indiscriminately on a group of individuals minding their own business” you aren’t tough. “This was very brazen and very cowardly.”
To Commissioner Harrison, this sort of violence is “unconscionable.” He really wants “members of the public to call police with tips.” They don’t exactly trust the police there. Or like them enough to fund them.
All police have to go on is that “multiple shooters jumped out of a silver four-door Lexus.” They blasted the seniors, jumped back in the ride and “fled north on Park Heights Avenue.” Later, they put out images of the silver 2016 Lexus CT200H hatchback.
DEVELOPING: @BaltimorePolice are responding to reports of a shooting on Park Heights Avenue in northwest Baltimore. An 11 News crew is at the scene. Updates to come in the WBAL-TV app. pic.twitter.com/DCoHLUI5FA
— WBAL-TV 11 Baltimore (@wbaltv11) August 24, 2022
They can’t crack the case without help from the public. “We need people to call us right away. We need to know who was in that vehicle. We need to hold them accountable.” Police used to be able to do things like that on their own. Welcome to the New World Order.
Neighbors are distressed and outraged. They explain how “people were always out there, sometimes sitting under nearby trees for shade on hot afternoons.” The seniors “also frequent two convenience stores at the intersection.” The scene of the ambush is ironically “less than a block from the Park Heights office for Safe Streets — one of 10 sites across Baltimore where the longtime anti-violence initiative focuses its efforts.”
Meanwhile, local residents are already afraid to venture out on the streets. As one woman walked by, she noted to reporters, “she was home during the shooting but went to check on friends of hers who live in the block police cordoned off with crime tape. The woman said she and her friends only go out to the store at certain times of day out of concern for their safety.” Another bystander added, “It’s like limiting your own life. It’s sad.“
