LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — The five people shot Friday night are all recovering from their wounds. The neighborhood where they were shot is shaken, but some just chalk it up to life in the city.
“You literally walk through here and you see puddles of blood from the people that is getting shot all around here, running through here, it is scary," said a lady in the Russell neighborhood who preferred we call her Ms. T.
In the evening of July 12 on Esquire Alley, just off West Broadway and 9th Street, was aglow with police lights. Ms. T lives in the neighborhood. She ask we not use her real name. She has enough to worry about.
“I'm more worried about where the bullets are coming from. I’m more worried about who is going to retaliate," Ms. T said.
Louisville Metro Police said the five victims, three females and two males, are expected to recover from their gunshots wounds. If police have suspects, they have not released their names.
“However, most of this is not random," Metro Councilman Dan Seum Jr. (D-13) said. "There is a lot of street turf, gang turf, a little pocket gang stuff they are not going and shooting people off the sidewalk."
Councilman Seum serves on the Public Safety Committee. He said most of these shootings are not random but very deliberate acts of violence.
“It is a lot of gang stuff, so we have got to find ways to get to these kids,” said Seum.
Ms. T said the kids in her neighborhood are surrounded by violence, and she fears the gun fights and violence has desensitized the kids.
“If the kids hear the gunshots, they may pause then they go back and play. It is that common,” Ms. T said.
Councilman Seum is a former middle school football coach, and he said his past has taught him the future belongs to the kids of today. He said he would like to see churches and other organizations ramp up their outreach in the neighborhoods suffering from gun violence.
“And I have talked to the mayor, said we have to get our police officers back on the street, we have to see them, we have to feel comfortable, we have to bring Louisville back, we want a vibrant Louisville, we are not going to get a vibrant Louisville with crime," said Seum.
Ms. T's Louisville is nothing but crime, and she said the only time she sees police is when there is a shooting.
“They come to pick up the bodies, that’s it,” said Ms. T.
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