That is the probably with the world these days nobodys seems to care about what goes on around them.

too much information these days.people are numb.

"Residents have been worried about the increase in drug activity."

And with a politician named Councilman Warren Blunt, they should be - hey dude, pass the blunt!

Terrific neighborhood. People heard gunshots but nobody reported it.

He probably still will. heh, heh, heh,

20-year-old Kaqwan Glenn

now there's a good ol' Irish American name. I guess nobody in this neighborhood is named Jim Smith.

Is it really that common to hear gunshots in Connecticut? So much so that you just ignore them and don't call the police. I live in rural Maine and we still call the police if gunshots are fired, unless it's hunting season.

Ok, stay with me it stats "bullet riddle body found IN car" nobody noticed because windows tinted to dark....and no sound of gunshots reported !!!

So if I was a betting man, I would guess he was shot and drove to were he was found...wipers on and engining running !

have you figured out why ? because if he was shot while sitting in car, WHY no mention of bullet holes in the car and the windows would have been shot out and then someone would have seen a car in the rain with window down and wipers on and that would have attracted attention... he was shot outside of car he got in car to get away and expired were he was found !!!!

Robert - unfortunately, yes. I was born and raised in Connecticut and still live here, and many of our cities are horrendously full of crime. People like to think of Connecticut as this pleasant state with quaint little farmhouses and rural towns, when the truth is, a big portion of the state is an overdeveloped hellhole. I live in a town near Hartford and the amount of sprawl is ridiculous. It's buildings upon buildings. Crime breeds in cities without purpose, and Hartford and Bridgeport are two of those cities. People go there to work, and when the workday ends, they get out. Nothing like Boston or New York, which are cities with real social and cultural value. At least the crime in New York and Boston is proportional to their population, and not completely out of control like in Bridgeport.

He could also have been shot with the door open and the shooter closed the door and left

Mike, I think you're off by a mile. He was in a Maxima which isn't a cheap car. The car was seen there at 9 am and shots were heard at 11 am. He was probably a drug pusher that was parked there waiting for someone...probably a drug dealer...they probably talked/argued for a while......probably owed the dealer some money....couldn't pay so the dealer shot him. Either that or the car salesman was pissed because of his constant complaining about the overpriced piece of crap he bought called a Maxima.

Can't we get any story without someone bringing in politics? This was a murder and people in the area failed to notice more than just the gunshots. As the article stated, they failed to notice that the car had been running for all day, the wipers had been running long after the rain had stopped and the gunshots. With the story about the ten year old girl who was just found murdered you would THINK someone would have noticed a car sitting in the same place and reported it to police. And with the cooler temps the heat from the engine would have made the exhaust obvious for part of the time. This was a case of people not noticing what was going on in their area.What is really scary is how fast people went back to their normal routine after the death of a child and not noticing a suspicious vehicle in their area.And they complained of increased drug trafficking to boot! Had that man not been dead but taken a child no doubt the people would have blamed the police for not doing their job better instead of being proactive.

Hearing gun shots and not reacting is understandable, but an idle car should raise suspicion? Did you need a more thorough description of the neighborhood?

Maybe the shooting victim was well known. Well known, but not well liked. People probably just didn't want any part of the situation.

According to City Data, Brideport Ct is majority black/hispanic.

Bridgeport is very shady and generally people keep to themselves so I'm not surprised that this type of thing happened.

Forget the idling car, the indicator should have been the running windshield wipers with no rain!

Seems like half the time there's a major crime in a Connecticut city, a Nissan Maxima with tinted windows is involved.

Wealthy Connecticut has a handful of small cities...largest urban population is under 150,000. Bridgeport, Hartford, New Haven, etc. Same problems in each one...50% school dropout rates, crime, crack, teenagers bearing baby after baby and nobody trying to stop the madness.

Anywhere i have lived the "projects" are dangerous. Govt subsidied housing. Supposed to be for when you hit a rough spot, to get you act together and get back on your feet and move back into society.

It turned into Welfare for life, food stamps, drug dealers, drug addicts, gangs etc.

used to be when food stamps were actually coupons you could buy them from people so they could get their booze. Course now you have to go to the store with them as they have a debit card.

Maybe its time to get people to quit living off the govt. course go a friend with three sons all on the dole. they get $5,500 a month together. So one third is TADA $1833, tax free. Course minimum wage pays $1,200 before taxes, about $1,037 takehome, so there is great incentive to go out and work. Course maybe its stupid but maybe total welfare payments should be $800 or $900 a month.

just goes to show you no one "wants to get involved." that's a neighborhood where you walk, head held low, so as not to establish eye contact with a bottom-feeder drug dealer. So, everyone going about their anxiety-ridden business in that place...

Caesar Augustus

According to City Data, Brideport Ct is majority black/hispanic.

Well.......there is your answer...

I don't know about other states, but in Oklahoma, public housing is designed for the person to fail, because it is based off of your income. If you don't have a job and pay $30 a month for an apartment .... then get a good job, your rent can go up to $600-$800 a month. There is no way to save money and get ahead. But yes, there are many people who have adopted it as a way of life and don't even try. When I worked Security there years ago, I met families that had four generations living there. The "projects" are only getting worse and more violent.

If you don't have a job and pay $30 a month for an apartment .... then get a good job, your rent can go up to $600-$800 a month.

The rents are commensurate with the cost of living even when adjusted for income. They are also determined by a fair market value range, plus a certain additional amount of rent for expense recovery (I hope).

Maybe I am market biased (lived in NYC, BOS, RI, CT), since I understand that salaries and the cost of living differs all over the country, but if you get a job and cannot pay $600-800 per month for base living expenses, then the job is not very "good." How about everyone else who does not have the benefit of public housing projects that has to pay rent in this range? How are they saving any money?

I don't want to get involved !!!!

Residents of the neighborhood near a public housing complex "have become numb to unusual noises, even gunshots, and they probably didn't react to it at all.

Time to move....I guess a Neighborhood Watch is out of the question.

Time for a gun ban.

COmommy

Forget the idling car, the indicator should have been the running windshield wipers with no rain!

------ Thank you CO. It took this long for the obvious to be pointed out.

WV...

I wonder what Darwin would have predicted about Nissan Maximas...in this state they seem be the car of choice that's seen every time there's a shooting. Either that, or we have one extremely busy shooter in the Nutmeg State.

And notice how this sort of thing doesn't happen when it comes to harmful drugs that are trafficked legally, such as alcohol and cigarettes.

Nutmeg? That stuff will get you high. Better outlaw it. No wonder all the nutmegged crazies are shooting each other.

Henesse??? Excuse me? More like Colt45, Ripple or Thunderbird.

Henesse is drunk in ghettos. Its not exactly high class.

What the hell is "Henesse"? I know what HENNESSY is -- a good, and surprisingly affordable cognac -- but not "Henesse". And drug dealers are thinning the heard? What, they're killing people they happen to hear? And what the hell is "the 48 show timeline".......

Those who complain about the uneducated, illiterate gang-bangers really should pay more attention to their own uneducated illiteracy.

p.s., Hennessy is not a "ghetto" kind of booze at all. At $40+ a bottle (the price of the least expensive Hennessy here), I doubt very many ghetto-dwellers are going to be buying four or five bottles of it each week.

All you have to do is do a search under "Black people drink Hennessy". You may have superior spelling skills, but you don't know your black people.

Lookee here: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hennessy

Have no fear, Councilman Warren BLUNT, who represents the city’s 135th District, has promised residents he'd fight to curtail the drug-related violence...

BLUNT

LOL,, I see what you did there.

Man there are some poindexters out here but TFNJ knows the deal. The Hen as most say is drunk in the hood and $8 for a 5th. Good to wash down a Cherry Blunt with some special seasonong in the middle if you knows.

Agnon, stick to you Starbucks Cappachino as you don't know jack.........

Might as well break out the Cisco and get this party started right.

For anyone who doesn't know what Cisco is, lookee here:

http://www.bumwine.com/cisco.html

Me and this girl drank a bottle each of this stuff one time and were supposed to go to the movies. Instead we spent the rest of the night throwing up and making out. We made out in between barfs.

TFNJ - Sounds like a good time was had by all.

Its not a story I usually tell on dates or to people I know. I'm confessing to making out with a barfer. But it was the Cisco. That stuff is liquid crack.

Won't be much of a party without Bernie.

Some of my friends were so "Blunted", that they might as well been Bernie

Lol, that's mighty white of you to point out that's Hennessy is a black only drink. My cousin and I drink Hennessy, a little expensive for our tastes but we enjoy a good cognac once in awhile especially around Christmas for our hot totties. . My brother and I drink Yukon Jack on poker nights, but I suppose some how you can make that in to a racist comment. I have drank Friis Vodka because it's a smoother vodka to me. My aunt only drinks Jose Cuervo Gold, I bet your assumption would be that she is Mexican, funny she is Norwegian and Slovakian. Fallacies are ugly so stop making them.

I agree with Agnon Mema. When making racist comments you shouldn't sound double ignorant with the racism/uneducated illiteracy.

AND LOOOOL Urbandictionary, seriously????? You think you should be using them as your fact finder. LOL.. I use them for my compare and contrast essays when I am trying to find racial fallacies.

TFNJ

Thanks.... I didn't know that. I just thought the OP just mispelled Hennessy...

One can get such an education here when the right people chime in!!

Have a great and SAFE weekend!

Calico, find the word "ONLY" in any of my posts. I grew up in Jersey City NJ. Look it up. I spent plenty of time visiting friends in the projects and hanging out. I am not just some white guy making project assumptions. I grew up in a very mixed neighborhood, with plenty of black friends. So I must ask, are you the white and overly PC type? Where any mention of a black person has you needlessly coming to a defence?

(I'm not Caucasian).

While my linking Urban Dictionary was more me being a smart ass, it doesn't take away from the fact that what I said is true. If you see any racism in anything I posted, then you are looking too deep into the PC world. I call on a black person to look at that and tell me I am racist. Live a day in my shoes while growing up and you can talk.

XDm9mm, indeed it was a good weekend. I spent in at New York Comic Con!! It was awesome. But I am tired as sh&&T!! lol

Hell they get 45 homicides in 1 weekend in Chicago!!!

I agree, culling of the herd.

Tracy

Bridgeport CT is a fairly large city in SE Connecticut. That is where PT Barnum originated from and Univ of Bridgeport is there. However, this may explain why the crime was not noticed

Residents of the neighborhood near a public housing complex "have become numb to unusual noises, even gunshots, and they probably didn't react to it at all. And that's not good," Bryant told the Post.

Bridgeport has a 41.4 per 100,000 murder rate and that is pretty high, as CT over all has a 16.3 per 100K rate

jack...

New Haven, Connecticut is a bit smaller than Bridgeport...maybe 110-120,000 people. Last year there were 34 murders...33 were of young black males.

Do you know what got the city up on their feet and holding rallies ??? It was the Trayvon Martin shooting...big protest over that one !

Thanks for that info Tony 268769

except it was released in 1980

"Another One Bites the Dust"

Single by Queen

from the album The Game

B-side
"Don't Try Suicide" (US)
"Dragon Attack" (UK)

Released
22 August 1980

Liberalism in action.

Yup, that $6 TRILLION and counting that we've spent on the lib's "War on Poverty" has been working just sooooooo wonderful. Not.

We've spent $3 billion in the last twelve years in Connecticut to try to close the educational "achievement gap" between urban and suburban schools...result ?

The worst educational 'achievement gap' in the country.

The amazing thing about this place is that in 2010, a liberal Democrat governor was elected by a margin of about 6000 votes out of 1.13 million cast. In the combined 6 poorest cities in Connecticut, the man won by over 70,000 votes and did not win one municipality out of the state's 169 that calls itself a town.

Within months of his election he signed the largest state tax increase in the history of this state. So he was truly elected by the city voters who have destroyed their own back yards...and the bills they help to create get handed to the people in the towns who did not elect this governor.

Nice set up, eh ???

Unless you live in a town.

Doesn't say. For anyone wanting to follow the case as something to solve, there isn't much info. Like what the victim looks like, or anything else. Its reported as a casual every day occurrence.

Praise "Bob"! May we forever be held in the loving arms of Eternal Slack!

Nissan Maximas get 33 miles city, and 12 hours idle time.

should give Connecticut to Canada

Yeah and try slipping CT by/through NY State and across Lake Champlain! LOL

Canada can surely have Bridgeport, New Haven, & Hartford...or at minumum, would be welcome to the residents of those cities.

Geography not required in school nowadays Jack. Just ask ozcarr. LOL HAGD

TOG,

Yeah, I guess with GPS geography is another lost art! Some folks would be really confused with a map, compass and protractor! LOL