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Drive-by on Doyle

I wish that we could begin the week with some good news out of Mt. Hope, but Channel 10 reported this story last night and the Providence Journal reported it this morning.

Man shot on East Side

01:00 AM EST on Sunday, December 17, 2006

PROVIDENCE — The police were investigating a drive-by shooting of a man walking on Doyle Avenue on the city’s East Side about 6 p.m. yesterday.

The man, who was not immediately identified, was unable to provide the police with a description of his assailant or the car from which the shots were fired, according to detectives. He was taken to Miriam Hospital with a bullet wound to the arm that the that the police did not believe was life-threatening.

I guess the man quoted in the post of the 17th, Drive-by shootings and . . ., from a letter he wrote to the East Side Monthly that cruelly characterized the Camp Street area (as he called it) as rife with these types of problems, as unkind as his characterization is, seems to be right on the money.

A Sunday evening incident of this kind, that took place in front of the subsidized housing between Doyle and Pleasant where activity that looks a lot like drug dealing can often be observed, does nothing to dispel Mt. Hope's reputation as a dangerous neighborhood that is still controlled by drugs, criminals, and the ever present threat of violence.

Posted at December 18, 2006 11:15 AM

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