“This gangbanging needs to stop,” he told Cleveland.com. “You don’t do it where kids are going to be at. That’s coward s—-.” And, “That baby died for no reason. I don’t want to die for no reason too. I’m going to do something right before I leave.”
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A 3-year-old boy named Major Howard was shot and killed in a drive-by shooting Tuesday night on East 113th Street in Cleveland. A 24-year-old woman was also shot; her condition is not yet known.
One man sitting on his porch today described hearing “30 or so” rapid-fire gunshots outside his home last night. Howard, sitting in a parked car down the street, was struck once in his chest.
Neighbors gathered at the site of the shooting Wednesday afternoon, where a small memorial of balloons and stuffed animals was growing at the base of a telephone pole. Children watched men race down the street on a motorcycle.
“It’s just sad,” one woman told Scene. She said she didn’t live on East 113th, but arrived this afternoon to contribute to the memorial. “Your kids can’t even be out here playing. It’s bad enough you’re all trying to kill each other, but now you’re killing these innocent kids that have nothing to do with what you got going on. It’s sad.”
Conversation on East 113th today turned inevitably toward the 5-year-old boy shot Sept. 4 on a side street near East 55th. So far in 2015, there have been 86 homicides in Cleveland.
No suspects have been identified as of Wednesday afternoon. Two sources told Scene that the shooters’ car had been found “torched” on a nearby street.
This article appears in Sep 16-22, 2015.
….but the mayor and his hardly working staff will continue trying to convince city residents that the beautiful people attending the Republican National Convention will cure all ills: Crisis? What Crisis?