http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-06-30-detroit_N.htm
Gunmen opened fire on a group of teenagers at a bus stop near a Detroit school.
The gunmen traveled in a green minivan exited the vehicle, asked for a person by name and then opened fire. The shooting wounded seven teenagers, 14-17, including three who are in critical condition.
Another summer school student, 15-year-old Bria Wilson, said she was standing at the bus stop when the shooting occurred. She said she was facing the other way and ran when she heard the gunfire, but she saw a male friend lying on the ground bleeding.
“They were so close-it almost hit me,” Wilson said.
Steve Wasko, a spokesman for the Detroit public schools, said there was nothing that they were aware of at the time linking the shootings with any fights at the school.
Imam Abdullah El-Amin, co-owner of a funeral home near the shooting, said drug-dealing and prostitution is very common in the area.
"It's terrible that these things are just laying there, festering, in society — time bombs waiting to happen," El-Amin said.
I am just happy that the teenagers are alive. I hope it stays that way. I know the economy is bad but it is unbelievable that these gunmen opened fire on these young children. Now for Imam Abdullah El-Amin’s comment of bombs going off, well I think this could be a little much. At least I hope it is.
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Detroit seems like a pretty hopeless place. The comment El-Amin makes is pretty heart wrenching. I am also glad the kids are safe. That would be a terrifying situation to be in.
ReplyDeleteI wonder how much more of this we will be seeing in the news in the next couple years of the down economy.
Thing is, the gunmen were most likely the same age as the "young children" who were the victims.
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