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Re: KILLED IN GUN BATTLE: Booker T. Washington Public Housing Complex on Bright street
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Maybe they should have 24-hour surveillance cameras and armed national guards and/or police on a 24 hour basis patrolling the projects. Something need to be done about the lawlessness in the projects.


That's a dam good idea, JCPD have many cameras in high crime areas, why not there?


See the thread about the 7th & Coles robbery to know why cameras are a waste of time. The school wouldn't turn over the tapes and the JCPD couldn't care less. They told the victims they wouldn't view them if they had them.

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Maybe they should have 24-hour surveillance cameras and armed national guards and/or police on a 24 hour basis patrolling the projects. Something need to be done about the lawlessness in the projects.


That's a dam good idea, JCPD have many cameras in high crime areas, why not there?

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You can thank the politicians and their policy on appeasment for all that is wrong in these projects, paid for on the backs of all of us that get up in the morning and go to work....

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Maybe they should have 24-hour surveillance cameras and armed national guards and/or police on a 24 hour basis patrolling the projects. Something need to be done about the lawlessness in the projects.

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Doesn't look like it's going anywhere soon other than up...

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I don't know why you are so uptight - but the Booker T. Washington Housing Projects are in our zip code 07302 - I like to keep up on the growing gun shootings there.

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AND YOUR POINT IS ????

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Mourning in 'Bullet Town'

3rd shooting at housing complex in 3 months

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER
WILLIAM GRIFFIN JR.
DERRICK MACK

The latest shooting in Jersey City's Booker T. Washington Public Housing Complex has a dead man's grieving father referring to the complex by a new nickname.

"This was once a model for public housing projects nationwide, and from that it turned into what it is now - they call it Bullet Town," said William Griffin Sr., whose 24-year-old son, William Griffin Jr., was shot to death in the complex Sunday about 2 a.m. It's the third shooting at the housing complex in as many months.

Investigators believe Griffin Jr. was killed in a shootout with Derrick Mack, 25, of Bidwell Avenue, who was wounded in the exchange of gunfire.

Griffin Jr. - whose last name was incorrectly spelled by authorities Sunday - formerly lived in the complex and attended Ferris High School, his father said. But Griffin Jr. went to prison in 2004 on drugs and weapons charges, and after getting out last March, he moved in with his father in Linden.

His father said Griffin Jr. would frequently return to Jersey City to visit his grandmother.

The shootout may have been the result of an attempted robbery, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said.

Griffin Jr. was shot in the chest and the left eye and pronounced dead on arrival at the Jersey City Medical Center.

Mack - who was driven by a friend to University Hospital for treatment of a gunshot wound to the back - has been arrested on weapons charges, but hasn't been charged with homicide in connection with Griffin's death, DeFazio said. However, the investigation is continuing.

Police have spoken to the man who drove Mack to the hospital and they impounded the car for forensic testing, DeFazio said, adding two .380-caliber casings were found at the scene, as was one 9 mm casing. Mack is expected to recover from his wound, DeFazio said. One gun thought to have been used in the shooting has been recovered, DeFazio said, and police are searching for the second weapon.

Last night, Griffin's family gathered in the Booker T. Washington apartment of his grandmother, Rachel Speaks, to comfort each other. They planned to make funeral arrangements after Griffin Jr.'s body is released by the Medical Examiner's Office in Newark.

"He always wanted to be around to help me," Speaks said last night.

Sunday's shooting caps a violent summer at the Booker T. Washington complex that has seen three shootings since June, as well as a man pistol-whipped during a robbery earlier this month.

"We have seen a noticeable increase of criminal activity in and around the Booker T. Washington Gardens," DeFazio said yesterday. "It's clear that we need the community's help to curtail this wanton gun violence

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KILLED IN GUN BATTLE
Monday, August 28, 2006
By MICHAELANGELO CONTE
JOURNAL STAFF WRITER

A former Jersey City man was killed and another remains hospitalized after cops said the two men opened fire on each other in the Booker T. Washington Public Housing Complex in the early morning hours yesterday, officials said.

Investigators believe the 2 a.m. shootout at the corner of Fremont and Bright streets may have been the result of an attempted robbery.

William Griffith, 24, a Jersey City man who had recently moved to Linden, was shot in the head and chest; Derrick Mack, 25, of Bidwell Avenue, was shot once in the back, Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said. Investigators believe the two men shot each other.

Griffith was pronounced dead on arrival at Jersey City Medical Center. But Mack, who fled the area, was driven by a friend to University Hospital in Newark. He told doctors he'd been shot during an attack in Newark, but Newark police investigated and found his story didn't hold water, DeFazio said.

Detectives from the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's Homicide Squad went to University Hospital and arrested Mack after interviewing him, DeFazio said, adding he was charged with various weapons offenses but not with homicide. However, the investigation is ongoing.

The gun police believe Griffith used has been found, but they are still looking for the gun Mack had, DeFazio said.

Mack was convicted two years ago on various drugs and weapons offenses, according to the state Department of Corrections.

After the shooting, numerous Jersey City police officers were dispatched to the area on a report of a riot situation and they began dispersing the crowd, police reports said. Among the crowd was Johnny Rosa, 22, of Fremont Street, who refused to leave and then pushed an officer, reports said.

While being arrested, Rosa dropped a handgun, police said.

Anyone with information on the shooting is asked to call the Hudson County Prosecutor's Office's Homicide Squad at (201) 915-1345.

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and on the West side of town
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Similar crime happened in June
Monday, August 28, 2006

Yesterday's slaying is similar to another recent fatal shooting in Jersey City that investigators believe was a robbery attempt gone awry when the would-be victim pulled out a gun of his own.

Police responded early on the morning of June 4 to Kennedy Boulevard near Oxford Avenue, where they found Osmond Dixon, 20, dead on the sidewalk, a 9 mm handgun near his body.

Investigators believe Dixon and Tyshawn "Bang" Hines, 21, both of East Orange, had set out that morning to rob someone, but their intended victim - Kenneth Boykin, 26, of Jersey City, a convicted drug dealer, pulled out a gun and shot Dixon to death.

"It's a frightening coincidence that we have had two incidents of this type within months," Hudson County Prosecutor Edward DeFazio said. "It's a very dangerous situation because innocent people are being put at risk."

Boykin is wanted on the charges of possession of a handgun for an unlawful purpose and possession of a handgun by a felon; Hines is wanted on the charge of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, DeFazio said.

MICHAELANGELO CONTE

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and in Greenville
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Shots fired into crowd hit his legs
Monday, August 28, 2006

A Rahway man was in stable condition last night after he was shot in each leg when someone opened fire into a crowd on a Jersey City street corner just after midnight yesterday, officials said.

The 26-year-old victim was being treated at Jersey City Medical Center for non-life-threatening bullet wounds to each thigh, police reports said.

Police responded to Union Street at Ocean Avenue at 12:05 a.m. on a report of a shooting and spoke to a man who said he heard gunfire and ran outside to find the Rahway man had been shot, reports said. He told police the man got into a car and was driven away, reports said.

The officers then got a call from the medical center saying the victim was there, reports said. At the hospital the victim told police he was in the crowd at the corner when someone opened fire, reports said, adding he did not see the shooter.

At the scene police recovered a bloodstained T-shirt and tank top, as well as copper-colored bullet fragments, reports said.

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