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So this past Thursday, id say maybe around 4 or 5 i start to hear a chopper flying around the area for a good 30-45 minutes, really didn't think much of it since its really nothing new around here, went to the mailbox about 10 minutes afterwards and it sounded like it landed on the park up the street from me which led me to believe something done happened and they probably air lifted somebody to the hospital. later on that evening i went out and as i pulled up to a 4-way intersection i saw a Spanish news van leaving the area as well, which then made me think....wtf done happened?
didn't catch the news that night to see what went down tho.


went to the barbershop yesterday morning after i got off work, and the first thing he asked me was did i hear about what happened yesterday. i said "nah what happened?" he told me two people got shot and killed over on the street my cousin lives on, said it was probably drug related, i wasn't in shock but i was like damn, its been a good lil minute since its been any type of shooting around here.

but later on that day my cousin comes down and tells us she knows one of the dudes that got killed....well here's where it gets kinda confusing, from how I'm hearing it, it sounds like 6 people total got killed, 4 in some type of boarding house where they deal drugs and 2 i guess in some type of altercation that went down, but the dude she knew, i guess he got killed early Friday morning, said some dudes followed him home from the club, robbed him and shot him 5 times.

but here's what kinda got to me, she said he was into drugs so I'm pretty sure that played a part in it too but also said he drove a BMW, don't know what model or year but i haven't really seen too many other BMW's around here besides my mom's and another one up the street.

it just hit close to home b/c its like, it could have been anybody else and the way I've been feeling over the past year and a half, you just don't feel safe anymore, i always thought this was a pretty decent area I'm in, i know we got the bad seeds but pretty much good. but for something like this to happen, its kinda like a reality check that shit is real out there.

So real that i have been thinking about getting some "protection" myself, along with the right paperwork to carry that "protection" around. i lost my peace of mind a long time ago and i really need it back....

Peace