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Topic Started: Sep 6 2011, 05:07 AM (346 Views)
Joan Foster

Was this a parade or a firing range?

Gunfire repeatedly rocked the West Indian Day Parade in Brooklyn yesterday -- even while Mayor Bloomberg marched nearby -- as the city's terrifying epidemic of shootings over the Labor Day weekend grew steadily worse.

The orgy of violence -- including eight fatalities among the 48 gunshot victims -- seemed to follow the revelers everywhere, from the parade route to nearby fast-food joints and even to their own homes.

In all, nine of the shooting victims were hit at or near the parade, the annual Caribbean-themed festival in Crown Heights, where a gunman had fired into the air only blocks from where Bloomberg had just begun marching.

"[The gunman] shouted something, then 'boom!' Everyone ducked," said a witness, Marlene Anthony, adding that the young thug was standing at Rockaway Parkway and Clarkson Avenue - just blocks from the parade staging area. "It was a bad mix of alcohol, ignorance and a fool with a gun who tries to ruin the fun of the parade."

The gunman, Devon Stevens, 25, jumped into a livery cab, but went only a couple blocks before hopping out on East 94th Street at Winthrop Street, where he ditched the gun as cops gave chase, authorities said.

"I was out here sweeping and listening to music when I saw the police grab up this young man on the hood of this car," said an elderly resident on East 94th Street. "There were so many police chasing him."

Cops pepper-sprayed the Stevens.

Hours after the parade ended, an elderly woman was killed in the crossfire of a melee between cops and a gunman.



The parade had gotten off to a rocky start at 6 a.m., when a nearby McDonald's -- packed with 100 early risers prepping for the festivities -- was the site of a senseless shooting.

A customer Kenneth Beggs, 44, bumped into a man entering the Empire Boulevard eatery and apologized.

But Anthony Carruthers, 28, allegedly refused to let the incident go and pumped bullets into Beggs' legs.

"The bullet shattered the door, so everyone ran out the other door," said one McDonald's cook.

Tempers flared after parade ended, as well, with one reveler shot in front of a crowd on Eastern Parkway.

A group of six or seven men had pummeled the victim on the ground and then an attacker pulled out a handgun and shot him in the leg.

Before the gunman fled, he grabbed a pot of steaming rice from a food vendor and tossed it onto an onlooker.

Cops tackled the gunman. His victim is expected to survive.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/gun_terror_rocks_carib_fest_wmiThROamLwlZg4KORugEL#ixzz1XAJxG0oC
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It is getting angry on the streets.

Leadership is what we are lacking. Leadership at every level in society.
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kbp

Were any Republicans allowed in that Labor Day parade?

...never mind!
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