8.23.2007

Shooting at Local Jewelry Store.

Okay...I think they're using "Jewelry Store" very loosely here. The store is "KC Gold Fronts"...specializing IN, you guessed it, mounting those stylish gold fronts in people's mouths.

Located right across the highway from where I work, next to the Canaan Church, Cricket Wireless, Subway and Wendy's. This part of town is ALREADY the fucking armpit of the city, why do people insist on making it worse? I'm assuming the dumbass who did this lives in the area, cause that's how it's gone in the past.

The ACTUAL Jewelry store, Szilvasy [I know, they did mount gold fronts, but they still sold jewelry...] was robbed about a year or so ago and finally closed down. A dude was shot in the Shell parking lot a few months ago. My coworker, Dre, was shot and killed a few blocks away. Wal-Mart, Toys R Us, Best Buy, QuikTrip, Bannister Mall and many more have all closed down / relocated due to the crime in the area. It's fucking madness! You'd think there'd be a fucking cop in our parking lot ready to dispatch...or at least in the area, but there's not. There's a fucking Police Station on Hillcrest, yet we wait an hour and a half sometimes to have them come pick up a shoplifter we've caught in the store who has a vial of crack and a blade on him.

Why do people fuck up their own neighborhood...? I understand the debate about how poverty breeds fucking lowlifes...but why fuck up your own area?! There should be a fucking uprising in this goddamn town! Led by the mothers of these victims! This is something I heard at Dre's funeral! Yet nothing has really come of it...I don't understand.

All in all I'd bet the owners of KC Gold Fronts are good people. They obviously run a decent business, they were one of the few places that relocated from the Mall when it shut it's doors for good. I hope the people who did this are found, but again...KCPD...I don't have a lot of faith in them...really don't. Murderers in this town aren't held to account...I'd like to see the stats on the number of solved cases...the most recent solved case...dude shot a fucking Cop...so hell, they caught THAT mother fucker...THEN staked out his fucking FUNERAL and arrested 9 more people. What a fucking message THAT is...I like that. Fuck that guy.

Anyway, yet more shit going down on Bannister. There's a good chance the Wizards will get their own home where Bannister Mall sits, with a hotel and office park included...shit like this does NOT help things much.

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