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Just looked out front door - whole area of the estate is lit up by blue lights and still more coming - outside Purser House. I'm not normally so interested by these kind of posts but it's disconcerting when it's right outside and despite being such a large estate, it's not really that often I see this.
 
gaijingirl said:
Just looked out front door - whole area of the estate is lit up by blue lights and still more coming - outside Purser House. I'm not normally so interested by these kind of posts but it's disconcerting when it's right outside and despite being such a large estate, it's not really that often I see this.
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It's certainly unusual here. I thought it was someone putting out their wheelie bin to start with, then heard the shouting and realised it was something more sinister.
 
Depressing. Only last Wednesday Water Lane was closed off because of a bloody incident.

With the earlier shootings too, I am starting to suspect criminals feel they can act with impunity in Brixton.
 
gaijingirl said:
Just looked out front door - whole area of the estate is lit up by blue lights and still more coming - outside Purser House. I'm not normally so interested by these kind of posts but it's disconcerting when it's right outside and despite being such a large estate, it's not really that often I see this.
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Sounds like another fatal shooting according to Twitter, unless it's just speculation

http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&xhr=t&q=tulse+hill&cp=5&pq=brixton&pf=p&sclient=psy&prmdo=1&tbm=mbl&source=hp&aq=0&aqi=&aql=&oq=tulse&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=72a772a2a386efd2&biw=1047&bih=475
 
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So am I right in thinking that since the Kentucky incident (which is probably not a Trident case), there have now been 3 or 4 deaths in Brixton and the immediate area (ie. Stockwell/Tulse Hill)? So 7 serious incidents iin less than 2 weeks?
 
Minnie_the_Minx said:
So am I right in thinking that since the Kentucky incident (which is probably not a Trident case), there have now been 6 deaths in Brixton and the immediate area (ie. Stockwell/Tulse Hill)? So 7 deaths (including Alper Pasha) in less than 2 weeks?
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That's simply appalling. I just hope the police can get a grip, finally.
 
leanderman said:
That's simply appalling. I just hope the police can get a grip, finally.
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I've just been going through thread. Not sure there were any fatalities with the Moorlands Road incident, or with the Brixton Water Lane incident (which I've seen down as GBH). Corner of Railton Road/CHL I've noticed was a chain attack. So not 7 at all. Maybe I should change it to 7 serious incidents in 2 weeks.
 
The Moorlands Road incident was a stabbing/shooting, but it seems unlikely to have been fatal.
From what I gather, the violent attack outside Brixton Village resulted in a serious injury.
 
leanderman said:
That's simply appalling. I just hope the police can get a grip, finally.
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I'd like some reassurance that the police are taking this seriously and have a strategy for dealing with it. I don't expect them to be able to wave a magic wand and make it go away, but I wonder whether the time has come for a public meeting at which the police could give the public some reassurance.

What do people think?
 
Winot said:
What do people think?
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They've put a CSO on walkabout up Brixton Hill... my mother could outrun him! Other than that, fuck all I reckon. Probably happy to stand back and let dickheads shoot the shit out of each other.
 
Didn't hear or see a thing last night, but even so :(

This is getting uncomfortably close. Torn between wanting what happened last night to be on the news (instead of apparently not mattering enough) and hoping that it doesn't so that I don't have to make any "Hello, I'm still okay" calls.
 
Winot said:
I'd like some reassurance that the police are taking this seriously and have a strategy for dealing with it. I don't expect them to be able to wave a magic wand and make it go away, but I wonder whether the time has come for a public meeting at which the police could give the public some reassurance.

What do people think?
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There's a Lambeth CPCG meeting tonight: http://www.lambethcpcg.org.uk/

Tuesday 7 June 2011 at 6:00pm

at

The Karibu Centre,

7 Grehsam Road SW9

I might try and pop along if I can get there in time.
 
Winot said:
Not so good for 5 year old kids caught in the crossfire :(
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I agree. I remember the Polish nurse that got shot dead by a stray bullet a couple of years ago.

The police and council have to do something now- and not just short-term window dressing shite, because in all the years ('93-onwards) I've been in Brixton, I don't think I've come across such a concentrated spate of deaths/serious injuries.
 
Maggot said:
I hope you're going to this Winot.
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Unfortunately I can't make it. I will try to contact them in advance to raise the issue.

The latest 'monthly' crime stats on their web page seem to be for January...

Edit to add - the April report is available via the blog, just not from the front page.
 
Kanda said:
Uncomfortably close???

How far away is acceptable?
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I didn't mean that it's okay as long as it's on somebody else's doorstep. Wherever a shooting or stabbing (or other violence) happens, it's more than bad enough.

What I meant was that this and the Water Lane incident last week were in places I have to go through on foot and alone - and while my thoughts are with the victims, I'm also wondering about a neighbour and her family who moved onto that estate, hoping that they're okay, and I'm also rewriting which areas are relatively safe at what times.

Yes that's selfish, but it's human. :facepalm:
Sorry, back to the thread.
 
From the SLP:
A YOUNG man has been shot dead in Tulse Hill.

Police said they were called to Purser House on the Tulse Hill Estate at around 11pm yesterday (Monday) to reports of a man being shot while standing outside the block.

They said he was pronounced dead at the scene.

His is said to be in his late teens or early 20s.

The Met's Operation Trident is investigating. No arrests have been made.

A 33-year-old who lives on Leander Road, which backs onto the estate, said she heard four shots then a car accelerating away.

She said: "It was really harrowing. I was in the kitchen working on the computer.

"I heard four really loud shots. I knew what it was straight away. Then a car screeched off.

"Then I heard a woman screaming, it was a really deep guttural sound. I was really shocked by it and couldn't get to sleep."

The man's death the third fatality in South London within the last two weeks.
http://www.southlondonpress.co.uk/n...line=Young man shot dead on Tulse Hill Estate
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My girlfriend reports police were on the Victoria line searching teenagers last night after the shooting. Lots of police at Stockwell too.
 
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