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City Crime Oft Displaced To Rural
posted (July 7, 2016)
In our first segment, we told you about the trio of murders that happened in just 5 hours. First, 20 year old Tevin Palmer was shot 3 times in the head yesterday around 3 inside his Castle Street home - that is on the Northside. Then, an hour and a half later on Cemetery Road, 19 year old Devin Parham was gunned down. But the bloodshed did not end there, 3 hours later, Michael Lopez was also executed in the St. Martin's area… The intense gang warfare in the city is terrifying, but it is not only city police and residents who are concerned. Today, Assistant Commissioner of Police for Eastern Division Rural told us they have to be vigilant as well because it is those same gang players who move into the rural areas.

ACP Edward Broaster - OC, Eastern Division Rural
"Any problem that happens within the City reverberates within the rural eastern division and we have to be on our Ps and Qs to ensure we stave off any such retaliatory attacks or what have you and like I mentioned before, we know that there are members different gang elements that believe that the rural area is safe haven for them, which I've said before it's not because these groups have the intelligence mechanism to identify where the different foe hangs out and so forth. So, we are on heighten alert to deal what whatever we have to deal with when it comes to that."

Broaster says they are ready for any retaliation that might occur in the rural area.

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