On this rainy Sunday morning, I had the edifying experience of
witnessing something straight out of Al Capone's Chicago. Two cars --
one a white or light gray two-door, the other a Monte Carlo --raced up
12th Avenue South past Andersen School and Stewart Park at perhaps
seventy miles an hour shooting at one another. The people in the chase
car, the gray one, were firing small calibre pistols, probably .25's or
.32's, while the guys in the Monte Carlo returned fire with what
sounded like a 9 millimeter. Parents driving the opposite way with a
van full of kids on the 2800 block of 12th Ave pulled over to the curb
and watched these morons scream by. No one was hit -- at least that I'm
aware of. I'm told that this is referred to as "cool shooting" and is
becoming quite common these days. In any event, it represents a fairly
dramatic escalation of gun-related violence in our section of the
'hood after almost a decade of relative peace.
Paul Weir
Phillips
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