Last night police spoke about how they had been holding crime down in the city - after a month with no homicides in the murder capital. Well, they spoke too soon. Tonight, sadly, the news is about two men killed in separate shootings within 30 hours. First, yesterday's shooting victim, 21 year old Ian Adolphus Jr died early this morning. That's murder number one. And then this afternoon at 2:15 pm, 29 year old Hubert Bodden was shot dead on Cedar Street behind Habet and Habet.
We start with Adolphus. He was shot yesterday morning at 9:30 am on Freedom Street and died at the KHMH this morning at 4:30. The 21 year old was shot to the arm, chest and elbow. His father tells us that the shot to the chest was the fatal injury because it caused major internal bleeding and also damaged his heart. He said that after surgery Adolphus was listed as 50/50, and later in the night Doctors lowered his chances. He was then taken off life support.
He succumbed before dawn. Today we spoke to a friend who asked to appear off camera:..
Voice of: Friend of Ian Adolphus
"I was not a troublesome person. He wasn't affiliated with any gang. He wasn't a gang member as far as we know back here. He has his friends that he hang out with, my brother and his other friend - that's it. When a vehicle is there to fix, they fix it and thing and that's it. He has some little running with the law, over minor charge, maybe for drug trafficking for a puff of weed and maybe a little fight now and again. That was Uno, I didn't know him as a gang member. We don't really know."
"When we got the news yesterday, it shocked us, because he was not that type of person who looks for trouble. Normally in the yard, he would be with us. Once he was not here, he would take a ride by his grandpa house every now and again. But from out there, it's straight back at Jane Usher here at our house he would come back and that was it."
"He was trying to gather up some little youths to play a basketball tournament. He had already gotten the youths, but apparently, it looks like he went out there to get phone numbers from some of them to play the basketball tournament that is supposed to happen Friday in Ladyville, so that is why he ended up going out there that morning when he was shot."
"The amount of time he was here with us, I don't know him as a troublesome person. He would not walk on the street and troubles you. You could call Uno a hundred times to go to the shop for you, it doesn't matter how far, but Uno would go. He could just come back and you could send him again and he would go. That there is Ian Adolphus as far as we know. He wasn't a member of any gang, no leader of any gang, and not a troublesome person. The only time you would hear him get into trouble, is of trouble comes to him, the he would defend himself. Other than that, I don't have anything negative to say about my adopted brother. I have to call him adopted, because he is here almost a entire year with us, at this yard in Jane Usher."
Police are looking for a 16 year old suspect.
And while his friends nor police will say it, Adolphus is believed to have been a casualty of gang violence. On his facebook page, the 21 year old identifies with the Louise Bevans Crips, one of a cluster of gangs jostling for turf in southeastern Port Loyola.
He was shot just a few feet from his family home on Freedom Street.
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