Mario's experience on Farragut & Sansom was disturbing. At least as much so, a resident of 45th between Locust & Spruce was held up two doors down from his house -- at gunpoint -- on Sunday evening. In case anyone thinks it's just affluent-looking white people being targeted, this fellow is a non-affluent-looking African American. He lost a cell phone and $74 and is still quite shaken-up, but the good news is that he's physically unharmed. The other good news is that -- thanks to his riding around with the cops for a few hours and, as he told me, "you don't forget the face of someone holding a gun to your head," one of the little creeps was apprehended (he still had the gun with him) -- and promptly blabbed and gave up the other two (two males and one female in total). None of them was from the area (nor, I believe, from the West Park low-income housing project, either). Al Krigman (I guess it's OK if you keep growling, Pluto)
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