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Post by Sailor on Jan 3, 2015 9:11:09 GMT -8
There was a shooting across and down the street from my home last night. One person shot, condition not known to me as I write this.
The police rolled in about 2230 and set up their perimeter. The other emergency vehicles set up at the end of the cul-de-sac.
I don't know all the details but the police took a number of young men into custody, at least 6 according to my wife. They were treating the place like there was someone in there ready to open fire on them (smart IMO given the atmosphere today). 2 officers with M-4s covered the front of the house from cover, I assume a like number in the back plus there was an officer/K-9 team out front as well.
They kept the perimeter up until about 0230.
Found out something interesting from my daughter this morning, a number of officers in the VA Beach know her (friends, not professionally) and through her my wife and I. At least one of them contacted her this morning, checking up on us and she called us.
I didn't know we had friends on the department who kept tabs on us.
I'm looking for more information on the incident and will post anything of interest.
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Post by warrior1972 on Jan 3, 2015 13:13:05 GMT -8
Let us know, man.
Seriously.
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Post by Sailor on Jan 3, 2015 15:36:06 GMT -8
Odd that there is no followup in the local news, only that 1 person was hospitalized.
Saw a police car cruise past a couple times today but all is quiet.
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Post by 101ABN on Jan 4, 2015 10:41:21 GMT -8
Glad you're OK.
Gotta be good to know you have friends in blue.
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Post by Sailor on Jan 4, 2015 16:32:47 GMT -8
Daughter dated one for a short time shortly after she moved out on her own. Seemed to be a nice young man. I frankly lost track of him, after this much time I would have thought he'd moved on.
There was a rally down at the Va Beach Town Center Saturday in support of our local police. The local fishwrap initially reported a small crowd of only about 200 but a friend who attended reported it was over 1000. Not bad for an event that didn't get a lot of publicity and in cool, wet weather. The paper later amended the report to "several hundred."
Wife and I didn't get to attend, we had something else to attend to.
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