While a hundred or so guests mingled at a garden party on Hillside Avenue near Watchung Avenue, a shooter or shooters in a white van fired on persons on foot at the other end of Hillside in the Chetwynd-Martine Avenue area about 8:00 PM last evening, according to an email from a resident.
You will look in vain for news of it in either newspaper.
Youngsters riding bikes in the neighborhood told my informant they thought there were three persons in the van. The targets were apparently youths walking in the street who fled through back yards from Chetwynd toward Martine. The van apparently made a loop around the block, up Martine to Woodland and back down Chetwynd, overshooting the stop sign at Hillside and skidding into a neighbor's driveway before driving away toward Watchung Avenue.
The police response to 911 calls was rapid and intense -- both marked and unmarked cars -- according to my correspondent.
While other mayors are joining together to work in a coalition aimed at reducing or eliminating guns on the street -- as I have previously pointed out -- all we get is radio silence from the administration.
What is this administration doing about guns and gunplay?
Residents want -- and deserve -- to know.
-- Dan Damon
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3 comments:
We don't need to worry, Dan. We have an administration comitted to the elimination of violence.
Thanks for posting this. I live on Chetwynd Avenue, near Hillside. While "drive-bys" concern me wherever they occur in Plainfield, I'm most agitated by this one.
I'm glad the cops were on it but I plan to write the mayor anyway. She ran on a platform of law and order, didn't she? I'm not expecting much of a response, but I'll make sure she has to look a few words up in the dictionary nonetheless.
Its time for the Mayors office to do something about this. You ran your election on more police protection and better quality of life, so get to work..
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