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Subscribe to RSSBloodied and riddled with bullets, a man’s body sat slumped over for hours in a parked car -- its engine running and windshield wipers flapping long after the rain stopped -- as passersby, including school children, came and went throughout the day, Bridgeport police said Friday.
Police on patrol found the man's body at about 6 p.m. Wednesday in the residential North End neighborhood called Sunshine Circle, according to The Connecticut Post.
"They banged on the window and got no response," Detective Keith Bryant, a police spokesman, told the Post. "He was slumped over the wheel."
Neighbors told police they heard gunshots at about 11 a.m. Wednesday, but no one reported a shooting. Some residents say they saw the car as early as 9 a.m., but little else.
Paramedics pronounced the man dead, finding multiple gunshot wounds to his torso, police said. Detectives said they have no motive. Police said the victim has not been positively identified and planned to release his name later Friday.
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Police said the Nissan Maxima’s darkly tinted windows obscured the man’s body from view, but Bryant said someone could have reported the gunshots earlier in the day. 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.
Only a rusty fence separates the neighborhood from an area where gunfire is commonplace, the Post reported, and residents have been worried about the increase in drug activity.
Councilman Warren Blunt, who represents the city’s 135th District, has promised residents he'd fight to curtail the drug-related violence by working with police to create a surveillance plan and increase patrols, according to the Post.
"It's an ongoing struggle," Blunt told the Post.
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There have been 20 homicides in Bridgeport so far this year, matching the total number for all of 2011, according to the Post.
In May, 20-year-old Kaqwan Glenn was fatally shot where Wednesday’s gunshot victim was found in the parked car, police said.
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Nice Neighborhood to drop bodies, stolen cars and other booty
Sounds like a great place for Obama to go campaign. He should take Joe the Blow with him.
People heard gunshots but nobody reported it.
I can understand that. I walk daily and ride a bicycle because my doc told me to lose weight or get diabetes. The cops in this town according to the local paper coined a phrase of SOB's for "Scum on bicycles" and put an article in the paper with the headline "If you see bicycle riders in your area call the cops." After having my picture taken twice, having a decoy car put in my walking path with the drivers side door open blocking the sidewalk and more harassment than that, I don't call in loud noises anymore either. Retired Nuclear Engineer and 14 gallon blood donor.
Ludvig--sad, isn't it?
Quickest way to end the violence in the area is to close the Housing Project. Since their inception, housing projects have been riddled with criminal activity.
At least screen potential tenants better!
Goes to show how many people out in public function with blinders on to their surroundings. People need to wake up and watch their surroundings.
It is a culture of violence which goes on because no one notices who is the criminal and what they do. No community involvement equals no community solution.
Once you've heard hundreds of gunshots...I guess you kind of just quit hearing them. What a sick ass society that we can become callous to something so dangerous. Projects (subsidized housing) breed mostly ne'er-do-wells. Yes, there are a few that don't get involved but the majority of them embrace that ignorant life style. What I would ask either of the Pres. on the ballot is this: What exactly is your plan to erradicate gang activity that is taking over major metropolices and to what extent do you plan on carrying it out. We need to quit acting like its not happening because we are allowing it to gather strength and blatantly exhibit violence with little or no fear. THAT, my good people, should be a major concern to all Americans. Not to mention the children that have to try to grow up in such a negative environment with crappy parents.
Yeah, like Pres. Obullsh*t cares... you're talking about his core constituents there pal!
Well there NBC News, can't really say I'm all that surprised. After all we've had a pair of walking corpses govern us for the last four years... and you bunch of dumb asses are right there to support and prop them up through all their perils and pitfalls!
Nice neighborhood watch!
George Zimmerman may be looking for a job-----
Maybe they just didn't like the guy and didn't care that he was dead in his car.
You are a citizen, you doannah wannah notice anything like dat.
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.
I lived in San Diego, Calif. for 14 years as a adult. The neighborhoods I moved into were the neighborhoods I could afford. I never stayed in a apartment more than 3 years except once (9 years) then a new management company bought the apartment complex and raised all rents from $450.00 a month (1987) to $1680 a month. (We lived a block away from Balboa Park). I moved. I became numb. In fact I could sleep "IF" gunshots, helicopters, sirens and stuff went off. That became "WHITE NOISE". Yes it is a shame and as a responsible person you call out for help only to be told "we will get to you when we can as priorites are. Now I live on the east coast and have a hard time sleeping unless I hear gunshots, sirens or awakend by someone pounding at my door "THIS IS THE POLICE".
A man sitting in a car doing nothing, accomplishing nothing, wasting money and fuel for no reason and not going anywhere or serving any purpose.........they probably assumed he was a member of congress.
Most crime in the US is drug related.
And the druggies keep telling us to legalize the crap.
Take your meds AT, its past your bedtime.
Sounds like another Magnolia Shorty episode. Here are some issues the police are looking at. Are we sure he was not a rapper who got off'd for not rappin the right tune. How did the car idle so long, didn't the folks siphoning the gas have a long enough hose? Did the car still have tires and rims? What station was the radio tuned to? Was the stiff still wearing his Air Jordans? Where be his momma when dis went down? Was he a local entrepreneur in the hood? What are the odds the stiffs name is Tyrone? Is the EPA going to cite him for polluting the air?
Actually the stiff was a whitey who made a wrong turn into the wrong part of town, with his red neck-kicking music blaring at full volume, black windows rolled down. The home boys kept track of him and once he was in the hood, he was stupid enough to STOP at the sign when gun shots came blasting away. Them homies don't listen to anything that sounds like real music, cause the jungle is in their blood and everything gotta sound like African drums. Trouble is nobody heard or saw anything just the wind howling from another day in the hood! Tragic but true like any other city in the hood all across America where them colored folks live.
Bait car with a body didn't get many takers? most likely another of the HMIC's ideas gone wrong!
Ops, there it is! Another ghost that will not be voting this year. Or next!
And here I thought Connecticut was such a nice state...
The projects in my city now have big signs on the fences that state "Photo ID required to be on premises". So don't believe the nonsense about the poor not having Photo ID's
Just another drizzly day with gunshots falling on my head. Don't mean nothin.
Let's see if I can get a clue on this: The engine was idling, the wipers were moving from side to side of the windshield after the rain had stopped, and there was a man's body slumped over the wheel and still nobody noticed anything unusual to call the police, I just don't get it. Franklin. P.
Desensitized weak peopled town.
Why? I would just assume its another 78 year old out for a drive. Leave the turn signal on much, grandpa?
Leave the gun ... take the Cannoli ...