last night? Not good at all, and MSU needs to get heavily involved with pressuring Starkville city officials to make the District safe for everyone!!
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last night? Not good at all, and MSU needs to get heavily involved with pressuring Starkville city officials to make the District safe for everyone!!
Starkville Police are too busy looking for MSU Athletes drinking a beer to focus on criminals.
They were all arrested right after it all happened
So what happened?
For real, can someone enlighten us on what happened it is hard to decipher through code
from the other board:
"Yeah, talked to a cop that said four people were hit but nothing fatal to her knowledge, my truck was parked in that lot and was right next to a vehicle that had been hit. Took 2 hours before they let me get to my truck considering it was parked on a crime scene. From what i understand the guys that were hit are also suspects and started shooting first. Thankfully it didn't happen five minutes later when people are walking back to their vehicles because it happened right before 1:00, when the bars close."
Thugs got in a shoot out with each other behind Coconuts around 1:30 AM. Couple of them shot each other in the leg apparently. Some reports of like 20+ shots fired.
We appear to be getting a lot of low life?s from surrounding areas coming to hang out downtown. My son who lives in the vista says it gets pretty sketchy late night..... These people aren?t going to bars - just hanging out. Probably drug related as well
I'm going to guess "Zaheid Logan" and "Eric Jefferson" are not scholarly members of the University. Two of the 4 that have been named.
Yeah, that was me that posted that over there.
It was something else, think the dispute was over a woman (believe it or not!) The problem in the district now is not the people grabbing drinks at the bars, its the younger crowd that goes to hang around the area and deal with drugs.
Maybe could score some weed then. Good to know.
Boy, that is hitting too close to home. My daughter lives in the University Towers apartments next to Bin 612. Hope they get that riffraff cleaned up and fast! If there were really multiple gunshots then Starkville PD needs to be setting up shop around that area.
I was about 40 yards from where the shooting occurred at the time it sounded like a damn war zone going on.
Thugs from Noxubee Co. fighting over a girl.
The police have a presence in the cotton district. Hell I think there is a police substation in the apartment next door to two brothers
This is the Unfortunate Truth. Some shit has NO perfect / utopian solution; only the one that results in less pain for society. The "war on drugs" is just as much a joke as the "war on poverty". Sorry, I've been to Amsterdam and I'll take that city over Chicago every day of the week and twice on Sundays.
Just hate to see the Cotton District having violence issues though because that is THE primary off-campus area that has food and entertainment for students and alums to hang out at and enjoy. Would be easier to understand if it was happening in some thuggish neighborhood in a different part of town.
There definitely has been an increase in gang activity in the district over the past year it’s easy to see some nights
Well Starkville does have a Democratic Mayor?.
Dealing drugs retail doesn't require gangs. I've known plenty of affluent people that do drugs and they don't deal with gang bangers. It's a lot of work, and it comes with political blowback because you are going to hassle some students and non-dealing, non-carrying people, but the starkville police/city government can chase those elements out of the cotton district if they decide they want to.