Murder starts off the week – again!!

The long list of police unsolved murders just got longer this week when Harrison Staine, a mentally challenged man was gunned down as he rode by on Berkeley Street, just two nights after Jason Tillet, 35, and Erwin Gladden, 26, were shot in the leg and ankle respectively, and seven days after Ian Arnold, 35, was shot dead on the same street.

Staine, 42, had been shot only two months earlier but while the bullet penetrated his neck back then, he survived.  His killers seem to have needed to sure they finished the job when, shortly after 7:00 Sunday night, they sprayed a hail of bullets at him.  Only one bullet hit him, but it did in the face and killed him.  His family members are convinced that his killing came at the hands of gangs, but swear he was not involved in the street warfare currently plaguing the city’s streets.  Even though relatives and friends urged him to relocate to another area, the single man continued to live on Wagner’s Lane, not far from where he was gunned down.

As has become the trend of recent times, whether or not Staine was the witness of a previous killing is still uncertain, but his killers obviously wanted him dead for some reason.  His family are still trying to figure out if his killer thought he had witnessed a murder and wanted to eliminate him for that

Just a stone’s throw away from where the recent shootings havee taken place, at the corner of Plues and Berkeley Streets was once a police station, but the building was converted into a home for the elderly some years ago.  The residents are appealing to the authorities to re-open a police station in the crime-infested area to restore some sense of security and sanity.

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