Earlier this evening, at about 5:30, I heard two gunshots coming from the direction of Frog Island Park, and, as people do these days, I got on Facebook to ask what in the hell was happening, and whether or not my family was in any immediate danger. Within minutes, I received the above photo from […]
I didn’t think I’d be posting about downtown gunshots again so soon, but apparently there were more this afternoon. According to police reports, several shots were fired in a parking lot off of Ballard, near the intersection with Cross, right behind Golden Wall, less than a block away where a drive-by shooting took place earlier […]
By Mark | November 8, 2012
An arrest has been made in the case of the I-96 shootings. A man from Wixom by the name of Raulie Wayne Casteel has been taken into custody. According to the Daily Tribune, “Casteel was charged with six counts of a combination of felonious assault, carrying with unlawful intent, felony firearms, and discharge of a […]
Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged angry white men, anti-government, gun violence, guns, I-96, Kerry Bentivolio, Libertarianism, mental illness, Obama is a Socialist, paranoia, patriot movement, Raulie Wayne Casteel, Ron Paul, tea party, violence on the extreme right, Wixom |
My post on this weekend’s shootings in Ypsilanti elicited the following response from a reader calling himself Edweird. This is what I was able to gather from a few different sources (a neighbor who lives near the house in question, the news reporter trying to give her report to the camera, and a cop on […]
Posted in Ypsilanti | Also tagged citizen reporting, crime, Edweird, Hondurans, hostage situation, occupation, stabbing, SWAT, tanks, violence, Young Street |
Fortunately no one was killed, but it looks like there was a shooting yesterday evening near the intersection of Cross Street and Ballard. Here’s a clip from the Ypsi Citizen: …The Eastern Michigan University Police Department sent an alert through its campus mailing system early this morning to notify the campus community of the shooting. […]
Posted in Other, Ypsilanti | Also tagged attempted murder, Ballard, crime, Cross Street, drive by shooting, Eastern Michigan University Police Departmen, police, violence, Washtenaw County Sheriff, Ypsilanti police department |