Tacoma has its shitty parts, but even in the nice parts fucked up shit
happens. I live in North Tacoma, where it is generally pretty nice (3
blocks from UPS, about 25 blocks from this school shooting) and watched
a shooting go down outside my house this summer. Fight outside a
party, someone started shooting in the crowd and some guy fired back
with a shotgun!
Ive had tons of friends robbed, had my car plus
many other friends cars broken into, had several murders within 10
blocks of my house, which has been kind of strange. One was a triple
murder, one guy got beat to death walking into his house, then one
other guy got shot to death after getting in an argument with a guy who
gave him a ride home from the harmon downtown (I am actually only a
block from where I am writing this right now). This has all been around
UPS here in Tacoma.
There was some shit going down at N. 21st
and Union today. Tacoma PD had their negotiators and a bunch of cops
outside this house. dont know what happened.
We had that meth addict go shooting around the mall later year too.
Granted, Tacoma isnt like compton, Philli, Harlem, or any real ghetto.....but crazy shit does seem to happen here a fair bit.
RIP to the kid. He had a 2 year old daughter (at 17 no less). Very Sad