"Serious" fire reported at Euclid Avenue and East 79th Street today. Street closed and HealthLine diverted. Anyone know what building caught fire?

FIVE? And what's up with the big turnout of cop brass at the presser? Glad to see they took these crimes as serious, but wow...

 

Tracy Carloss ‏@TracyCarloss  4m4 minutes ago

Grand jury indicted 5 men for crimes in Tremont.

 

Scott Taylor ‏@ScottTaylor19  5m5 minutes ago

Kenneth Jackson 18, Antowine Palmer 22, Tervon’tae Taylor 22, D’Wan Dillard 18 & Calvin Rembert 22, all named in 25-count indictment.

 

Homa Bash ‏@HomaBash  35m35 minutes ago

Four #Tremont robbery suspects arrested, one still at large. All between 18 and 22yo. #cleveland

 

Homa Bash ‏@HomaBash  38m38 minutes ago

#Tremont robbery suspects took HD pics of themselves spending stolen money, driving stolen cars says @Pros_TimMcGinty. 'Idiots' #cleveland

 

Tracy Carloss ‏@TracyCarloss  2m2 minutes ago

Prosecutors credit several agencies working together to solve carjackings in Tremont. @CLEpolice @FBICleveland

 

 

Why is this rather major news story just being reported now??

 

Veronica McGraw ‏@Veronimac  9m9 minutes ago

Another @CLEpolice officer shot at while driving police van on St. Clair at E.148 Saturday, no arrests or injuries

Separate incident than the one above.

 

Warrant issued for man accused of shooting at Cleveland police officers

 

CLEVLEAND, Ohio -- Police are searching for a 26-year-old man they said opened fire on Cleveland police officers late Tuesday.

 

Detectives obtained an arrest warrant charging Shawn B. Hall with felonious assault in connection with the incident on Lenacrave Avenue near East 131st Street, according to court records.

 

Two officers in a marked police car responded to the area for shots fired outside a convenience store about 11 p.m., and were patrolling when they saw a group of people standing around two cars in the parking lot.

 

As they approached, Hall stepped from the group and fired several rounds at the police car, according to investigators. He continued walking toward the car and fired more shots, according to court records.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/09/warrant_issued_for_man_accused.html#incart_river

 

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Credit to Zack Reed who is aggressively calling for Mr. Hall's arrest on twitter: https://twitter.com/zachreed12

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/09/gang-related_shootings_undersc_1.html#incart_m-rpt-1

 

Guess it was a couple different gangs feuding, no mention of which may have been allied with others.

The recent uptick in violent crime is limited to a few select cities. http://t.co/T7RtXzH2Kt http://t.co/rGE2ofRrRA

@homabash

BREAKING: 5yo kid shot in apparent drive by on #cleveland east side, on Louise Harris Dr.

 

5yo shot in east side drive-by has died. Awful. What is happening #Cleveland?

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/09/cleveland_police_on_alert_afte.html#incart_m-rpt-1

 

"CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Cleveland police are on alert after the division sent out a bulletin warning officers of a tip that dirt bike riders have plans to ambush them.

 

The bulletin sent to officers Thursday afternoon says the threats stem from The Harvard Wine & Grille on Harvard Avenue."

 

https://www.google.com/maps/@41.449116,-81.582799,3a,75y,358.74h,74.54t/data=!3m6!1e1!3m4!1sBmVvsLi5EvNu9CVRyJwSUA!2e0!7i13312!8i6656!6m1!1e1

Child victim of drive-by shooting on East Side dies of wounds, police say

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- A 3-year-old boy wounded in a drive-by shooting Tuesday night has died of his injuries, police said early Wednesday morning.

 

The boy, who has not been identified, was pronounced dead at MetroHealth Medical Center after surgery, according to a news release from Cleveland police.

 

The boy was one of two people shot Tuesday while sitting in a car on East 113th Street, between Union and Regalia avenues, at about 7:15 p.m.

 

According to police, the boy and a 24-year-old woman were passengers in a vehicle with a male driver. Witnesses tell police another vehicle pulled up to the car and someone inside began firing.

 

The woman in the car was struck once in the thigh, while the toddler was struck once in the chest.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/09/child_victim_of_drive-by_shoot.html#incart_m-rpt-1

And another....

 

Cleveland 19 News

‏@cleveland19news

BREAKING: 7-year-old shot on MLK and E. 110th St

http://shout.lt/bc8wv

This is insane. That area has been rough for a while, but this is absolutely outrageous.

 

The sad part is that there is no easy way to stop this aside from more aggressive police patrols or an end to the on going gang war that's been going since April.

I do agree with the consensus that the #Blacklivesmatter needs to take these kind of incidents on head on. 

 

Why doesn't Al Sharpton ever step in the middle of a gang war?  Not enough ratings for him?

I do agree with the consensus that the #Blacklivesmatter needs to take these kind of incidents on head on. 

 

Why doesn't Al Sharpton ever step in the middle of a gang war?  Not enough ratings for him?

 

Neither side has any money to pay him off

Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III Move To Chicago To Spotlight Anti-Gun Violence Activists

Posted: 10/21/2013 11:46 am EDT Updated: 10/21/2013 2:58 pm EDT

 

Sharpton said along with King, he wants to spotlight the people and the efforts fighting the gun violence epidemic in Chicago.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/al-sharpton-chicago_n_4136509.html

Al Sharpton, Martin Luther King III Move To Chicago To Spotlight Anti-Gun Violence Activists

Posted: 10/21/2013 11:46 am EDT Updated: 10/21/2013 2:58 pm EDT

 

Sharpton said along with King, he wants to spotlight the people and the efforts fighting the gun violence epidemic in Chicago.

 

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/21/al-sharpton-chicago_n_4136509.html

 

Maybe a different "g" word needs to be the focus.

 

Maybe a different "g" word needs to be the focus.

 

Maybe a lot of things need to be the focus of this. Gangs and guns are the outgrowth of things that quick-solutionists can't resolve.

Here we go again. This is getting out of hand

 

 

Several shot, one killed in downtown Cleveland

 

By Cory Shaffer | Northeast Ohio Media Group

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on September 27, 2015 at 9:17 AM, updated September 27, 2015 at 10:24 AM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Two people were wounded and a man was killed after a shooter opened fire into a crowd standing in downtown Cleveland early Sunday.

 

The victims were shot just before 2 a.m. on Euclid Avenue between Public Square and East 4th Street, Cleveland police spokeswoman detective Jennifer Ciaccia said.

 

One of the victims, a man whose age and name have not been released, died at MetroHealth Medical Center. A woman and another man were both shot in the legs.

 

Police released no description of the shooter, who ran from the scene.

 

Officers have made no arrests, Ciaccia said.

 

Investigators believe the shooting may be related to an altercation at Bank nightclub.

 

Police ask anyone with information about the shooting to call homicide detectives at 216-623-5464.

 

This is a developing story. This post will be updated.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/09/several_shot_one_killed_in_dow.html

FYI: the view below is looking south from Euclid at the railroad underpass. Coltman townhouses are at the right. Isn't this the warehouse complex that was to be demolished for the large apartment complex?

 

"@Cleveland_FFs: Wharehouse fire on E123 update:  Partial collapse reported by Ladder 10"

 

"@MartyMcGann: Fire @inthecircle http://t.co/3z77q1JIGZ"

 

"@TimothyRearden: That's not rain on the Power of 5 Radar... That's smoke from the massive fire near University Circle http://t.co/Cxcc3ErOVP"

Here we go again. This is getting out of hand

 

 

Several shot, one killed in downtown Cleveland

 

By Cory Shaffer | Northeast Ohio Media Group

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on September 27, 2015 at 9:17 AM, updated September 27, 2015 at 10:24 AM

 

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Two people were wounded and a man was killed after a shooter opened fire into a crowd standing in downtown Cleveland early Sunday.

 

The victims were shot just before 2 a.m. on Euclid Avenue between Public Square and East 4th Street, Cleveland police spokeswoman detective Jennifer Ciaccia said.

 

One of the victims, a man whose age and name have not been released, died at MetroHealth Medical Center. A woman and another man were both shot in the legs.

 

Police released no description of the shooter, who ran from the scene.

 

Officers have made no arrests, Ciaccia said.

 

Investigators believe the shooting may be related to an altercation at Bank nightclub.

 

Police ask anyone with information about the shooting to call homicide detectives at 216-623-5464.

 

This is a developing story. This post will be updated.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/09/several_shot_one_killed_in_dow.html

 

The comments are occasionally good for something, and here there's this: 

 

-Someone opened fire on a crowd outside The 9, fortunately only hitting the windows of the PNC building.

 

-Someone opened fire into a crowd at the Latino festival in the Muni Lot.

 

-A Quicken Loans Arena Employee was jumped, beaten, stomped, and robbed by a gang of over 50 hooligans while waking to his car at Tower City. Fortunately he was rescued by an off duty corrections officer. NEOMG refused to publish a single article about it.

 

-Someone opened fire on a crowd outside the Horseshoe casino (right below the skywalk), striking a young man waiting for a bus. The young victim was about to join the US Navy but after 9 surgeries he had to cancel those plans. The NEOMG obscured the location of this incident, and barely reported it at all, and did not show any concern for the victim whatsoever, until 5 1/2 weeks later the police asked them to run security cam images of the suspect. The NEOMG did not publish those cam images very prominently and as a reslult the shooter remains at large.

 

I've sort of assumed that these incidents are tied into the gang wars that have been going on, but is it possible one or more of these gangs are trying to run a protection racket on the city, vis a vis RNC?

 

 

 

Several shot, one killed in downtown Cleveland

 

By Cory Shaffer | Northeast Ohio Media Group

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on September 27, 2015 at 9:17 AM, updated September 27, 2015 at 10:24 AM

 

I woke up last night around 2 am to the sound of mass sirens.  I flipped on my police scanner app and listened to the thing develop.  At one point the dispatchers had every available zone car in the City headed downtown to assist the officers.  I heard reports that there were multiple people fighting with the officers on scene.

 

This was in connection to a dispute at "The Bank" nightclub located in the basement of the May Company Building.  That place needs to go immediately.

Shut them down now. No excuses. This is ridiculous

I didn't even know there was a nightclub in the May Co. building.

https://www.facebook.com/BankCleveland

I don't doubt you. Just didn't knew it was there.

Apparently this is a very common thing at The Bank. Yes, they really need to be shut down.

Is that where Cadillac Ranch was? Does it take up that entire huge space?

Just where Barroom used to be. Not where the restaurant was.

It's rather disturbing to walk on Euclid on Friday/Saturday evenings and see people lined up at the Bank getting full pat downs before they walk in. It seems when one troublesome club is shut down, another one pops up. IIRC, there was a similar shooting outside a night club by 55 Public Square in summer 2013. The Bank opened last year during the Gay Games. Another one to watch is Cest La Vie on 9th and Walnut... Did the same May Co bldg owners that whined about not getting $25 mil tax credit lease this space to the Bank? Who approves/oversees this?

It's rather disturbing to walk on Euclid on Friday/Saturday evenings and see people lined up at the Bank getting full pat downs before they walk in. It seems when one troublesome club is shut down, another one pops up. IIRC, there was a similar shooting outside a night club by 55 Public Square in summer 2013. The Bank opened last year during the Gay Games. Another one to watch is Cest La Vie on 9th and Walnut... Did the same May Co bldg owners that whined about not getting $25 mil tax credit lease this space to the Bank? Who approves/oversees this?

 

If you take the Cleveland.com comment section advice and look up the victim's facebook page, hes a wannabe gangster.    Not saying he deserved this, and possibly wasn't the shooter's target since he was firing into a crowd.    But none-the-less speaks to the kind of clientele they are attracting.

If it's necessary to run full pat downs on everyone entering an establishment, it should tell you a little something about the clientele.....

The "upscale, VIP, exclusive" experience strikes again!  Shut down The Bank, and another sh-thole will open up to draw in the trash within a few months, and be shut down within a year for the same thing.

The "upscale, VIP, exclusive" experience strikes again!  Shut down The Bank, and another sh-thole will open up to draw in the trash within a few months, and be shut down within a year for the same thing.

 

"Xclusive".

 

In a way, it's a backhanded compliment to downtown's recent success, that these sorts of places aren't moving into cheaper quarters further out.  And yes, full pat down security only means they leave their weapons in their cars.

 

The "urban" clientele can be lucrative for clubs as long as they know it's a short term deal.  To call them "problem customers" is an understatement.  Unfortunately, in a case like this downtown faces the same issues as changing suburbs:  how do you keep the problems out with being perceived as up to something else?

Did my own investigating, (via social media) this guy hangs out with the same group that was shot at two weeks ago when 3 year old Major Howard was shot. They are also a party to this ongoing gang war on the South East side of town. Seems this is not random (as these types of things rarely are).

Interesting. It's a shame that we don't have much of a true journalism presence to investigate such connections anymore. From what I can tell NEOMG appears to simply regurgitate slightly reworded press releases for the most part.

Interesting. It's a shame that we don't have much of a true journalism presence to investigate such connections anymore. From what I can tell NEOMG appears to simply regurgitate slightly reworded press releases for the most part.

 

Yep. Sites like this is where to get informed today.

Maybe local media are trying to redeem themselves...

 

CLEVELAND - Sources connected to the investigation of the downtown fatal shooting this weekend tell newsnet5.com police are investigating a connection between that incident and the death of three-year-old Major Howard.

 

http://www.newsnet5.com/news/local-news/cleveland-metro/sources-police-investigating-a-connection-between-the-downtown-shooting-the-death-of-major-howard

 

 

^The Bank's gotta go.  It's just another nuisance club in the middle of a thriving Cleveland entertainment district -- it's the Moda of downtown Cleveland.  Sorry, gang wars and a thriving downtown simply don't mix.

The "upscale, VIP, exclusive" experience strikes again!  Shut down The Bank, and another sh-thole will open up to draw in the trash within a few months, and be shut down within a year for the same thing.

 

"Xclusive".

 

In a way, it's a backhanded compliment to downtown's recent success, that these sorts of places aren't moving into cheaper quarters further out.  And yes, full pat down security only means they leave their weapons in their cars.

 

The "urban" clientele can be lucrative for clubs as long as they know it's a short term deal.  To call them "problem customers" is an understatement.  Unfortunately, in a case like this downtown faces the same issues as changing suburbs:  how do you keep the problems out with being perceived as up to something else?

 

It shouldn't be a race thing... the Bank just (and some others) just attract young punks and gangbangers.  There are similar majority-white clubs that attract troublemakers as well... Not to mention the African American venues, like the Take 5 jazz club in the WHD and the Stonetown restaurant in Gateway that draw a diverse, often-professional clientele that is perfectly responsible. 

The "upscale, VIP, exclusive" experience strikes again!  Shut down The Bank, and another sh-thole will open up to draw in the trash within a few months, and be shut down within a year for the same thing.

 

"Xclusive".

 

In a way, it's a backhanded compliment to downtown's recent success, that these sorts of places aren't moving into cheaper quarters further out.  And yes, full pat down security only means they leave their weapons in their cars.

 

The "urban" clientele can be lucrative for clubs as long as they know it's a short term deal.  To call them "problem customers" is an understatement.  Unfortunately, in a case like this downtown faces the same issues as changing suburbs:  how do you keep the problems out with being perceived as up to something else?

 

It shouldn't be a race thing... the Bank just (and some others) just attract young punks and gangbangers.  There are similar majority-white clubs that attract troublemakers as well... Not to mention the African American venues, like the Take 5 jazz club in the WHD and the Stonetown restaurant in Gateway that draw a diverse, often-professional clientele that is perfectly responsible. 

 

The majority white clubs that attract troublemakers either clean up their act quickly or don't stay in business very long.  For the most part, they are out in the suburbs and are either too isolated to spill over, or the cops simply don't play. 

 

It's not just the professional clientele black clubs that don't have issues.  Most nights I work we are mostly black, and we don't have issues. 

 

The places that try to attract a certain type of mostly black crowd have problems an order of magnitude worse than anywhere else. 

Maybe the club owners are just trying to run a protection racket on the City

This story is soo ghetto in so many ways its hard to know where to begin... 

Good to know that kids are looking up to the Heartless Felons as role models though... 

 

This is basically right behind the new ugly apartment building on Chester at the Clinic.  Welcome to the neighborhood! 

 

Self-proclaimed Heartless Felons use shotgun, AK-47 to rob Cleveland man

Two teenage boys who called themselves members of the notorious Heartless Felons gang brandished a shotgun and an AK-47 when they robbed and assaulted a Cleveland man.......  The victim recognized his attackers but would not identify them to police because he "don't snitch," the report says.

 

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2015/09/self-proclaimed_heartless_felo.html#incart_m-rpt-1

This boggles my mind: "The victim obeyed and shook out two wallets and $2,500 dollars, according to the report.

 

The teens also took a gold chain worth $10,000, a gold watch worth $5,000 and a pair of diamond earrings worth $1,500, the victim told police."

 

I have never owned anything worth that much money except maybe my car when it was brand new. I can't imagine walking around with $2500 in cash! Mind blown.

I would be surprised if any of that is true.

^My first thought too. That was truly one of the strangest crime pieces I've ready in a long time. It's like a weird fantasy/stereotype mashup.

Weird to most of functional society?  Sure.

 

But most routine ghetto violence follows facts very similar to the ones in the article.  Most of the crime, killing, and mayhem in the 'hood isn't a whole lot more sophisticated than that.  It is a truly anarchic dystopia.

Weird to most of functional society?  Sure.

 

But most routine ghetto violence follows facts very similar to the ones in the article.  Most of the crime, killing, and mayhem in the 'hood isn't a whole lot more sophisticated than that.  It is a truly anarchic dystopia.

 

That's why people don't usually walk around there wearing a small fortune.

^Right. I know violence is all too common in inner-city neighborhoods, but there was nothing routine about the specifics cited in that report. At least 100 shots fired? Um, yeah.

But what facts exactly?  The number of shots?  100 shots sure seems like a lot and I would be surprised if that was true.

 

The facts are basically: a guy was standing on the street corner in the ghetto and two kids came up and robbed him.  He subsequently will not cooperate with the cops.

 

What is the basis of disbelief here?

Maybe that 'a guy was standing on the street corner in the ghetto', as you put it, with two wallets containing $2500 in cash while wearing over $15000 in jewelry?  If I was the police, I'd be watching to see if this guy files any kind of insurance claim and/or investigate whether he recently visited one of the casinos