Another Scranton Shooting (Wilkes-Barre, Washington, Plymouth: low income, apartment, attorney)

[weluvpa]

Here is another Scranton shooting (http://scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/09/21/news/doc48d6faed6b301085115786.txt - broken link).


One shot in city; suspects sought

Staff Report
Published: Sunday, September 21, 2008
Updated: Sunday, September 21, 2008 9:55 PM EDT

SCRANTON -- Scranton police are searching for three males after a man was shot in the 700 block of North Main Avenue Sunday evening. The males are believed to have fled in a gold car.

The Times-Tribune.com will bring you more information as it becomes available.

[SteelCityRising]

Amazing!

[W-B proud]

Originally Posted by weluvpa

Here is another Scranton shooting (http://scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/09/21/news/doc48d6faed6b301085115786.txt - broken link).


One shot in city; suspects sought

Staff Report
Published: Sunday, September 21, 2008
Updated: Sunday, September 21, 2008 9:55 PM EDT

SCRANTON -- Scranton police are searching for three males after a man was shot in the 700 block of North Main Avenue Sunday evening. The males are believed to have fled in a gold car.

The Times-Tribune.com will bring you more information as it becomes available.

Don't feel bad, we just had another homicide in the Wilkes-Barre area (actually Plymouth, just over the bridge, but the accused killer is from W-B), and the killer is still on the loose. Get used to it up there in Scranton, I think you guys are starting to experience the same violence that we've been pleagued with the last ten years or so. You cannot ban these low lifes from moving into your community (that's illegal) so all you can pretty much do is pray it doesn't get very bad, or move out.

[SteelCityRising]

Well to be fair Plymouth and its neighbor of Edwardsville aren't exactly the hip and happenin' places they used to be. Boarded-up buildings, dilapidated (yet amazingly still inhabited) homes, and problem corner bars now dominate both communities. Does either town actually have any redeeming qualities anymore?

[W-B proud]

Originally Posted by weluvpa

Here is another Scranton shooting (http://scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/09/21/news/doc48d6faed6b301085115786.txt - broken link).


One shot in city; suspects sought

Staff Report
Published: Sunday, September 21, 2008
Updated: Sunday, September 21, 2008 9:55 PM EDT

SCRANTON -- Scranton police are searching for three males after a man was shot in the 700 block of North Main Avenue Sunday evening. The males are believed to have fled in a gold car.

The Times-Tribune.com will bring you more information as it becomes available.

I find it funny how WNEP swarms all over the Wilkes-Barre area incident, but didn't say a peep about the Scranton incident. It seems like they only cover the possitive things and Scranton, but ignore the ugly things, and vice versa for W-B. It seems like they only cover shootings and drug bust and anything bad in W-B, but totally ignore the positives. It really p***es me off! The other night W-B had a very successful collegetown party on Public Square. Fourteen hundred students turned out for this growing annual event. Out of fourteen hundred students, fourteen were cited for underage drinking. That's one out of every hundred students that came out! But WNEP ran a complete story about the underage drinking in W-B (a completely negative spin on an otherwise very successful event. They didn't even comment about how successful it was, or what a good time everyone had. It was totally about underage drinking being out of control! Again, painting W-B like some out of control wild west town where anything goes! If this was a Scranton event, they would have showered praise all over it, made Scranton sound like the best thing since beer in a can, interviewed the bragging mayor ect, and not even mentioned the underage drinking issue. It's completely biased! I don't understand why? Why do they seem to alienate the entire Wyoming Valley, from which WNEP originated? That is why I usually watch WBRE. Sorry for getting off topic, but I had to get that off my chest.

[SteelCityRising]

No, W-B Proud, I must actually concur with you. The local media has for years inflated the ego of Greater Scrantonians while beating Greater Wilkes-Barreans into the ground. Is it justifiable? Not at all. Who does Mayor Doherty know in the local news media to put such a positive spin on everything (besides the Lynett family?)

[W-B proud]

Originally Posted by ScranBarre

Well to be fair Plymouth and its neighbor of Edwardsville aren't exactly the hip and happenin' places they used to be. Boarded-up buildings, dilapidated (yet amazingly still inhabited) homes, and problem corner bars now dominate both communities. Does either town actually have any redeeming qualities anymore?

If your idea of "redeeming" is low income housing for our criminal neighbors from Philly and NYC then yes! They should build ten more low income projects for these scumbags! Someone on the news said Bull Run Tavern has had a large influx of problems ever since The Glass Bar closed. I know, what a coincidence right? They shut down all the problem bars in W-B, so they all hang out on the west side now. When they close down Bull Run Tavern they will just move somewhere else. Unfortunatley the poor owners of these bars cannot ban these scumbag, thugs from entering their taverns, because that would be "racist". So he is pretty much doomed to this plague, more and more incidences until they close him down, and thier is nothing he can do about it, because it is not legal to ban black thugs and drug dealers from entering thier bars and shooting up the place!

[weluvpa]

UPDATE.............................. (http://scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/09/22/news/sc_times_trib.20080922.a.pg3.tt22shooting_s1.19628 07_top4.txt - broken link)




Two people injured in West Scranton shooting

BY DAVID SINGLETON
STAFF WRITER

Published: Monday, September 22, 2008
Updated: Monday, September 22, 2008 6:25 AM EDT

One man was shot and critically wounded and a second was also injured after two men forced their way into a West Scranton apartment at gunpoint late Sunday.

The wounded men, whose identities were not immediately available, were taken to Community Medical Center.

The more seriously wounded man was shot in the buttocks, with the bullet exiting through his stomach, police Lt. Joseph Arbie said. His condition was critical, Lt. Arbie said.

The incident happened about 9:20 p.m. in a first-floor apartment at 753 N. Main Ave. Neighbors told police they heard four to five gunshots.

After the shooting, the assailants fled south on foot to the Turkey Hill Minit Market, 560 N. Main Ave., where they are believed to have gotten into a vehicle, Lt. Arbie said.

Police were looking for three men in a gold Chrysler Concorde that then left the Turkey Hill, heading south on Main.

However, about an hour after the shooting, police rushed to the Turkey Hill after receiving a report that one of the suspects had returned. Officers handcuffed a young man, questioning him as he sat on the floor of the store. Lt. Arbie said he was taken to police headquarters for additional questioning.

Officers later picked up a second man in the 600 block of North Main. Lt. Arbie said he also was brought in for additional questioning.

As of early today, neither man had been charged.

Lt. Arbie said the assailants — one of whom was armed — apparently came to the apartment and spoke outside to one of the victims before forcing him inside. Once they were inside, gunfire erupted.

Lt. Arbie said the second man in the apartment suffered an injury to the back of his neck, possibly when he was grazed by a bullet.



My Pride is restored!!!!!!

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Originally Posted by W-B proud

If your idea of "redeeming" is low income housing for our criminal neighbors from Philly and NYC then yes! They should build ten more low income projects for these scumbags! Someone on the news said Bull Run Tavern has had a large influx of problems ever since The Glass Bar closed. I know, what a coincidence right?

Oddly enough, since your post there was a shooting at the Bull Run Tavern in Wilkes-Barre:

Updated: Monday, September 22, 2008 4:16 AM EDT
Scranton man was shooting victim

WILKES-BARRE — Law enforcement authorities are looking for a suspect in the fatal shooting of a Scranton man inside the Bull Run Tavern at East Main and Washington streets in Plymouth early Saturday.

Jeremy Robert Kendricks, 26, of McLean Street, Wilkes-Barre, allegedly shot Kirk Lipscomb, also 26, several times, according to police.

Magisterial District Judge Martin R. Kane has issued a warrant for Mr. Kendricks’ arrest on charges of criminal homicide.

Luzerne County District Attorney Jackie Musto Carroll said she understood Mr. Kendricks and Mr. Lipscomb knew each other, but she didn’t have specific details.

THIS MORNING | News | thetimes-tribune.com - The Times-Tribune (http://scrantontimes.com/articles/2008/09/22/news/sc_times_trib.20080922.a.pg3.tt22a3briefs_s1.19568 96_loc.txt - broken link)

Originally Posted by W-B proud

Unfortunatley the poor owners of these bars cannot ban these scumbag, thugs from entering their taverns, because that would be "racist".

They can institute dress codes that no self-respecting criminal would wear, or install a metal detector. That would keep out weluvpa, too.

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I'm trying not to get too disturbed by this as it's close to home. I don't think more police would stop something like this, as they apparently knew each other.

The thing that's most disturbing about all this is just how frickin' stupid some people are. It's like we need a really dumbed-down ad campaign in this country-- if you shoot someone, odds are that you'll get caught.