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[Alice Greenfinger]

May 8, 2008
 
MONROE TOWNSHIP — Police are look­ing for two men who opened fire on a group of people at an apartment complex early this morning, leaving one man hospital­ized with gunshot wounds to the leg.
  Monroe County sheriff ’s Detective Dave Davison said he and other investigators are looking for two local white men in their 20s with thin builds who were wear­ing bandanas at the time of the shooting.
  “We have two persons of interest,” De­tective Davison said. “They are suspects.”
  The incident happened about 12:30 a.m. at the Charring Square Apartments off S. Dixie Hwy. south of Dunbar Rd. The shoot­ing apparently was in retaliation for a fight that occurred on Monday, police said.
  According to Detective Davison, a group of people were standing outside an apart­ment when two men approached. One of the suspects asked the victim if he was a certain person, but before he could answer, the gunman pulled out a pistol and opened fire.
  The victim was not the person the suspect was looking for, police said. However, the targeted person was at the scene. After the shooting, the two suspects fled through the complex and disappeared in the Oakridge Estates Mobile Home Park.
  The victim, a 22-year-old local man, was taken to Mercy Memorial Hospital then transferred to St. Vincent Mercy Hospi­tal, Toledo, where he remained today with non-life-threatening gunshot wounds to the lower leg, detectives said.
  Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to call Detective Davison at 240-7533 or Detective Jeff Pauli at 240-7745.
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Just wondering.
Why are "groups of people" standing around after midnight?
Aren't there curfews?
Why do complexes this large not have security to deter the late partiers?
Looks like they would care about their tenants safety.
Decent people will look elsewhere to live.

[Boylanjl]

Just wondering.
Why are "groups of people" standing around after midnight?
Aren't there curfews?
Why do complexes this large not have security to deter the late partiers?
Looks like they would care about their tenants safety.
Decent people will look elsewhere to live.

Why should there be curfews for people who are over the age of 18??  The individual shot was 22.   If they were there and not causing trouble, there should be no problem with them gathered together.    From the way I read the story as it apeared in the news, the person who did the shooting came up and just shot after asking if he was somebody.  There is nothing wrong with people gathering together peacefully outside a apartment no matter the time. 

The matter of security at the apartment complex can only be addressed to the owners of the apartments. 

From the way this sounds, it was a personal vendetta of one person against another, and some security guards would not have stopped this.  Security guards in most places have very little legal authority to detain people, let alone they have no arrest powers that are afforded to a Law Enforcement officials.

[cc]

I talked with someone that lives there today.  I was told the person shot was approached by the 2 guys and asked who he was...before the victim had the chance to say one shot him in the leg.

I was told the one that got shot is really a good guy - doesnt drink or do drugs was just in the wrong place at the wrong time and a victim of mistaken identity.

[riversbend again]

 I lived out there 30 yeas ago. It was not unusual for me to sit outside with neighbors and chat after midnight on a hot summer night.  We weren't partying, just visiting after our kids were asleep for the night.

[Boylanjl]

I lived out there 30 yeas ago. It was not unusual for me to sit outside with neighbors and chat after midnight on a hot summer night.  We weren't partying, just visiting after our kids were asleep for the night.

Sounds like what a lot of people do in Base Housing do all summer long.

[Chips]

Some people are just animals.
Curfews won't work.

[Griff]

<snip>Someone said something about base housing. What is that?

Military... on-base housing for military families. Living on-base...

peace

[Leo01]

I was curious one day and drove into charring square just to see what it was like, I couldn't believe all the people just standing around in the parking lots in the middle of the day.  Maybe if more of them had jobs they would be too tired to have fights and shoot each other.