The high school principal urged students Thursday morning to help identify the gunman who shot and wounded a 17-year-old dropout on the steps outside the school gym Wednesday evening.
“This violent individual, who totally violated the atmosphere of safety and trust we have at Brockton High, needs to be arrested and prosecuted,” said Principal Susan Szachowicz. “He crossed every line of decency in society.”
Meanwhile, investigators continued interviewing potential witnesses to identify the shooter and any accomplices.
According to police, the victim, identified as Linandl Brown-Madison, had been at the school gym when someone confronted him. He later went outside where he was shot by another person. Brown was listed in stable condition at Good Samaritan Medical Center in Brockton Wednesday night.
Lt. John Crowley, chief of detectives, said no arrests had been made as of 11 a.m.
I also read on the Bostonchannel.com that the shooter is described as a light-skinned black male, somewhere between 5'6 and 5'9, wearing a red sox hat. This is the second Brockton shooting that has been in the news this week. The massacre at the Hess station on the South side in the Sunday paper had my grandparents talking about it all day. It's weird because I always thought that Hess was sketchy and then my friend Tara told me that it's like the most dangerous one in Brockton after dark. Who'd have thought? It's right on Main St! Anyways, the thing that bothered me most about the Hess incident is that four cars were shooting at each other, one man DIED, and three more were injured, and it was in a little section in the newspaper, not even the top story. THIS is why people have no idea what's going on in Brockton. The crime has gotten so bad it's chased out 4 generations of my family. When is something else going to be done about this? 30 years ago Brockton wasn't nearly as bad a place as it is now. Last year when I lived on the South side with my dad for a few months, there was a shooting on my street, in the house diagonal from my apartment. It was a baby shower and there were a bunch of people there and three people were injured, a little girl even died. When did Brockton become South Central Los Angeles?
That's all I have to say about that.
There is not enough being done to prevent violence. I moved out ofBrockton because we started to have problems. One of the biggest problems of living in Brockton is that when you try to notify the police of a problem, they say that their too busy to handle the problem because of the shootings in the area. Well... if they are handling the violence that occurrs in Brockton, How is it that they don't have it under controll by now.
ReplyDeleteI saw this too. And its sad, but it also makes me angry. I graduated from Brockton High in 2005..never had an issue. When I came to BSC and began telling people yeah I'm from Brockton they look at me like - omg but your not a drug dealer or a gang banger - how sad is that? None of my friends dare to visit cuz they refuse to drive through the city. Because the crime rate is so bad, the city has developed such an awful reputation.
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