Maybe if You...

Maybe if you knocked on a few doors. Showed that you actually wanted to do something about it.

"People don't talk in that area," LeGardye said. "They saw us out there doing our investigation looking for evidence, but nobody came out to say anything to us." Hmmm, did you try actually going over and talking to any of them? Did you knock on any doors of people that lived in the area? I know from personal experience. If you attempt to talk to an officer "On the scene" while they are there talking about all the things they could do or should do. To tell them what happened or that you have the whole thing on video tape. They will scream at you as if your the criminal. Hey, guys I just thought you'd be interesting in hearing and seeing what all happened. I didn't mean to interrupt you boasting about all the things you not going to do. Trying to make yourselves look important. Because, we all know it is more important to talk about what you could do, in a situation than it is to actually do something.

Also, if that neighborhood is as bad as you seem to think it is. What would make you think someone that knows anything would walk out there in front of the thugs that probably committed the crime in the first place? Then be fingered for turning them in. I would. But, not everyone is like me. Some people actually care about whether their family will be safe if they get identified as turning in the criminals. Then even if you do turn the people into police. Are the Police going to protect you and your family from the thugs? Fat Chance. Oh and don't be someone of questionable character. You may be found floating in the Flint river with everybody talking about what a dangerous life you lead and what a shame it was for you to end up that way.

Shooting victim, 16, had history of trouble
POLICE BLOTTER
FLINT
THE FLINT JOURNAL FIRST EDITION
Monday, February 20, 2006
By Kim Crawford
kcrawford@flintjournal.com • 810.766.6242
FLINT - A Flint teenager who police say had experienced repeated trouble at school and on the street was fatally shot Saturday on the city's south side, making him Flint's 14th homicide this year.

Flint homicide investigators said Terrel D. Lang, 16, was hit in the chest by gunfire from a handgun around 4 p.m. in the area of Howard Avenue and Lippincott Boulevard.

Police aren't sure where in the neighborhood Lang was shot, but they said he ran into a market at 901 Lippincott, telling people inside that he'd been shot. Two people in the store, a man and a young woman, put Lang in their car and drove him to Hurley Medical Center. He died while in surgery, police said.

Flint juvenile bureau officers said they were familiar with Lang, who had a record of getting into trouble at school.

Lang had attended Northern High School and was at one time enrolled in a program for high-risk youths, police said.

As recently as this month, juvenile officers said, Lang had been in police custody. One relative who came to get him was crying, saying he could be killed if he didn't change his ways, officers of the bureau said.

The investigation by homicide detectives has so far been hampered by a lack of cooperation from people in the neighborhood where the shooting took place, said Sgt. Roderick D. LeGardye.

"People don't talk in that area," LeGardye said. "They saw us out there doing our investigation looking for evidence, but nobody came out to say anything to us."

He said police need witnesses to call him at (810) 237-6929 or Flint police at (810) 237-6801.

- Kim Crawford

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