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There was a shooting last night in front of my apt building

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It was about 3AM, I was wakened by the sound of gunshots... about a whole mag emptied in succession in less than 5 seconds. It was over by the time I even realized what had happened. As the sceaming ensued, I finally trudged out of my bed to see what had went down. Apparently from my 15th floor window, I had direct view of the entire scene of what now amounted to a lifeless body and some scattered personal belongings. It was moments later that the cops arrived, I could see a woman who is likely the mother walk out of my building glances over and sees her dead son... she covers her face dazed and confused as she begins to scream and cry "oh my god, my baby" on and on... at that moment my heart sank for her, I felt so bad, no mother should witness what she did but there was nothing I could do but stand idly by like an idiot just watching as it all goes down.

This is Lower East Side Manhattan and relatively safe, I've never witnessed something like this in my life. The police headquarters is just down the block and city hall is just a couple blocks further. I'm still not sure what to think of this. I'd hate to think this was some random act of violence since it would mean it could have been me... not that I'm often out at 3AM but the details are irrelevant at this point. Events happening like it did[whole mag emptied at 3am], I'm guessing this was a guy who got mixed up with the wrong crowd. What a mind fuck that was, kept me up all night hoping he survives just for the sake of his mother regardless of who he is or what he's done. I still don't know who it is but he's likely a resident of my apt building... a neighbor. Whoever you are, RIP. 🙁

This was the only thing I could find on the web about it:
http://www.dnainfo.com/20100901/downtown/man-slain-down-street-from-nypd-headquarters

Cliffs:
-3AM, gunshots wake me up
-I look out window, dead guy
-His mother comes out, cries
-I die a little inside.
 
It was about 3AM, I was wakened by the sound of gunshots... about a whole mag emptied in succession in less than 5 seconds. It was over by the time I even realized what had happened. As the sceaming ensued, I finally trudged out of my bed to see what had went down. Apparently from my 15th floor window, I had direct view of the entire scene of what now amounted to a lifeless body and some scattered personal belongings. It was moments later that the cops arrived, I could see a woman who is likely the mother walk out of my building glances over and sees her dead son... she covers her face dazed and confused as she begins to scream and cry "oh my god, my baby" on and on... at that moment my heart sank for her, I felt so bad, no mother should witness what she did but there was nothing I could do but stand idly by like an idiot just watching as it all goes down.

This is Lower East Side Manhattan and relatively safe, I've never witnessed something like this in my life. The police headquarters is just down the block and city hall is just a couple blocks further. I'm still not sure what to think of this. I'd hate to think this was some random act of violence since it would mean it could have been me... not that I'm often out at 3AM but the details are irrelevant at this point. Events happening like it did[whole mag emptied at 3am], I'm guessing this was a guy who got mixed up with the wrong crowd. What a mind fuck that was, kept me up all night hoping he survives just for the sake of his mother regardless of who he is or what he's done. I still don't know who it is but he's likely a resident of my apt building... a neighbor. Whoever you are, RIP. 🙁

This was the only thing I could find on the web about it:
http://www.dnainfo.com/20100901/downtown/man-slain-down-street-from-nypd-headquarters

Cliffs:
-3AM, gunshots wake me up
-I look out window, dead guy
-His mother comes out, cries
-I die a little inside.

Sucks. I hate violence and even when just seeing a little without any guns I get scared. Never believed in it. Don't see a point to it.
 
Was the victim black?

Edit:
> The building is part of the Alfred E. Smith public housing project

I see now.
 
I grew up down there. Not sure what it's like now, but the Puerto Ricans and Dominicans were always going at it. Do you live near the projects on Madison and Pearl? Smith Houses?
 
Was the victim black?

Edit:
> The building is part of the Alfred E. Smith public housing project

I see now.

Does it really matter the color of the skin of the victim? A human being is a human being. It is always someone's son, uncle, husband, brother, sister, aunt, niece, nephew, etc. I can't see how this makes any difference.
 
I'm not quite going there yet but the building is mostly Chinese, Black, or Hispanic[equal portion of each]... and it wasn't Chinese since they can't speak a lick of English... well at least the mothers don't.

They could all be green, purple, yellow, orange, or red as far as I care. It doesn't make a difference.
 
I didn't specifically mention this was a project due to the stigma that's associated with that word... A project it is but violence of this nature is not a common occurence... hell it's never happened before in all my life. Sure I've seen fist fights break out over the dumbest things once in along while but this isn't a violent neighborhood.
 
I didn't specifically mention this was a project due to the stigma that's associated with that word... A project it is but violence of this nature is not a common occurence... hell it's never happened before in all my life. Sure I've seen fist fights break out over the dumbest things once in along while but this isn't a violent neighborhood.

Out of curiousity...how much is your rent?
 
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