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Two Arrested In Pensacola Drive-by Shootings
July 22, 2012
Two Pensacola men were arrested Saturday in connection with drive-by shootings last week in Pensacola, and police say more arrests may be forthcoming.
William Johnson Jr., 23 of Pensacola, was charged with attempted murder and possession of a weapon by a convicted felon.
Aaron Kaleb Allen, 18 of Pensacola, was charged with attempted murder and accessory after the fact.
Both were charged in connection with a shooting that occurred around 8:15 p.m. Tuesday at the corner of Sixth Avenue and DeSoto Street. A 15-year-old Pensacola male told police he and a 14-year-old male friend were standing at the corner of Sixth Avenue and DeSoto Street when a four door red or maroon car pulled up to them. He said the driver’s side rear passenger showed a handgun out the window and fired a single shot. The vehicle then left the area.
Police found the victim outside a house in the 900 block of North Sixth Avenue. He was taken to a local hospital for treatment after he was shot in the thigh.
“These investigations have involved officers from all divisions within our department,” said Pensacola Police Chief Chip W. Simmons. “They have spent many hours trying to identify and find the suspects, and I am proud of their efforts.
The investigation also determined Allen and Johnson were involved with an incident that occurred just before midnight Tuesday in the 600 block of East Strong Street. Police responded to the area after a woman called 911 and said a four-door maroon car had just stopped in front of her father’s house and that someone had fired several shots at the house. No one inside the residence was injured.
Also, officers also were dispatched to the same home about 12:48 a.m. Thursday after a 55-year-old woman called police and said she was sleeping when she was awakened by the sound of gunfire. The woman told police she jumped out of bed, but did not see who had fired the three shots into the residence. No one was injured.
Motives for the shootings remain under investigation.
Anyone with information on the shootings is asked to call the Pensacola Police Department at (850) 435-1900.
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While I agree with Jesse on some points, I don’t want the government telling me what to do, what I can wear, what music I can listen to, etc. I believe we need to teach our youth to seek and respect other things in life rather than just the things that bring out the “rebel” in them and their peers. I was young once – bad things were around then, but since I had been taught some values and appreciation of the better things in life, I CHOSE not to get invovled with the bad stuff. Too many youngsters today don’t realize that the better things in life are the best way to go rather than just going with the flow with the gangsters and gangster wannabees. the better things in life don’t usually end with you going to jail or prison for a long time.
They’ll be back on the street in no time.
I understand the mother of one of these two men had the courage to report her son. Congratulations to a true citizen. If more parents/relatives would do this our crime would subside a bit.
Never say my child would not do this even is they are adults. Bless you lady. You may have saved the life of a child.
REGARDING:
“It should be illegal and enforced that – - ”
The problem with the proposal is that it also includes the thug mentality — telling people how to act and dress, what they can watch or say. Shutting down movie making, television programs, music production would have limited benefit and would give the government the power to decide anything we could be told. This is worse than these sons of strangers in that THEY can be stopped but it would take an armed rebellion to stop the government if it ever became THAT oppressive.
As to alternative solutions, speak up in opposition to what is wrong, demand accountability for the actions of such thugs and in my more happy moments, consider taking people convicted of such things and transporting them to the mountains of Afghanistan and releasing them, never letting them return to the USA — not to serve as soldiers but as free men in an unwelcoming environment.
David for deportation of demons
This thug mentality is a threat to national security. Across the nation we are threatened by these young gangsters. They are sensationalized in the media, in music and on screen. Something needs to be done. Both of these clowns need to be sent to prison for the rest of their lives if found guilty. We need to censor music and film to include television. It should be illegal and enforced that people are required to wear clothes that fit and keep them pulled up. Respecting elders should be a law that is enforced, Now I am certain that the liberals will be very vocal in disagreeing with me, but what solutions do you have?