Another shootout on Charlestons West Side this morning

[CoolBreeze]

Seems there was another shootout at 3:40 this morning on Central Ave near Russel Street. ( Shootout Central) According to my old Aunt who lives nearby, it sounded like they emptied a couple a clips. Two Black males dressed in white T shirts were dragging a female towards their car. She "thinks" someone was shot, but not positive. The cops looked for shell casings all morning.

The odd thing is that none of the news media have this story yet. I just informed them.

[genlock]

They were just celebrating diversity and experiencing hope and change.

[Big Media]

This is much more common in larger cities. In fact, no sizable population is free of government subsidized slums and crack houses.

Huntington and Charleston keep trading places for crime capitol.

[fearpeddler]

i've had the fortune or misfuotune to live in a couple different "slums" outside of this state, and they were well behaved compared to the crap that goes on here.. seriously, I lived in 1 neighborhood for a year and only heard a gunshot once, and it was an old man down the street who accidentally discharged it... these larger cities have their mess well maintained compared to the cops here...

[weaver]

none of the news media have this story yet.

Don't they have scanners? What a sad commentary on the state of the news media.

[CoolBreeze]

I understand that TV8 had something on the shooting that morning, while others didn't. There seems to be so many shootings on the West Side that only people killed are worthy of making the news now.

[Ace Purple]

Don't they have scanners? What a sad commentary on the state of the news media.

I always disliked doing beat calls during my TV news producing days (I felt awkward calling 911 lines asking if anything newsworthy was going on), but beat calls can be VERY helpful in cases like this -- especially if it's one producer in Huntington trying to write an entire newscast who may or may not be set up to effectively hear Charleston scanners.