Two men went before a judge Wednesday for a shooting that left three people wounded more than a year ago.
But while the men are off the streets, residents where the shootings took place say there don't feel any safer.
While many would talk to us and some even seemed glad to for us be on the block to tell the story, the fear was too great for anyone to let us show you their face on the air.
When we arrived on the street the first thing we saw was a police car. But one woman told us she thought, ‘the cops around here are afraid of the kids'.
A man on his porch told us that he had lived there over a decade and the parents let their kids ‘run around like cowboys.' He didn't see things getting better. In the summertime he said there are so many shootings that it is like the Old West.
A local landlord did not want us to use his name or show his face, but told us there are often lookouts for the police.
“When the police come somebody alerts them you know,” the landlord told us. “People don't have jobs, so they are going to dope.”
He had a very clear reason why people aren't willing to go on camera.
“Because you get killed, these people mean business, these people mean business,” he told us.
Drugs, young people with not enough to do and too many guns on the street contributing to the climate of violence.
“There is nothing for the kids, it's crazy,” commented Tara Nealy, who is the mother of two of the shooting victims.
The shots from a shooting linger much longer that just one night, as too many have found out in the area.
But while the men are off the streets, residents where the shootings took place say there don't feel any safer.
While many would talk to us and some even seemed glad to for us be on the block to tell the story, the fear was too great for anyone to let us show you their face on the air.
When we arrived on the street the first thing we saw was a police car. But one woman told us she thought, ‘the cops around here are afraid of the kids'.
A man on his porch told us that he had lived there over a decade and the parents let their kids ‘run around like cowboys.' He didn't see things getting better. In the summertime he said there are so many shootings that it is like the Old West.
A local landlord did not want us to use his name or show his face, but told us there are often lookouts for the police.
“When the police come somebody alerts them you know,” the landlord told us. “People don't have jobs, so they are going to dope.”
He had a very clear reason why people aren't willing to go on camera.
“Because you get killed, these people mean business, these people mean business,” he told us.
Drugs, young people with not enough to do and too many guns on the street contributing to the climate of violence.
“There is nothing for the kids, it's crazy,” commented Tara Nealy, who is the mother of two of the shooting victims.
The shots from a shooting linger much longer that just one night, as too many have found out in the area.