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safeinOhio

(32,674 posts)
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 02:18 PM Jan 2016

Cass Tech on lockdown after midtown Detroit shooting

Source: Detroit Free Press

One person was taken by ambulance from the scene of a shooting near noon Tuesday in midtown Detroit, police said.

The shooting was at Second Avenue and Peterboro Street about three blocks north of Cass Tech High School, according to Detroit Police Department.

On Monday, authorities confirmed that a weekend threat on social media had named Cass Tech among several schools across the city

Read more: http://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/detroit/2016/01/26/shooting-near-cass-tech/79349156/

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Cass Tech on lockdown after midtown Detroit shooting (Original Post) safeinOhio Jan 2016 OP
Detroit Police via Broadcastify FrodosPet Jan 2016 #1
oh no navarth Jan 2016 #2
Yes...we live next to midtown angstlessk Jan 2016 #4
Yes navarth Jan 2016 #5
No we live near Ford Hospital angstlessk Jan 2016 #6
Oh New Center eh? Lovely homes around there navarth Jan 2016 #7
And an active shooter situtation in San Diego. SheilaT Jan 2016 #3

navarth

(5,927 posts)
2. oh no
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 02:35 PM
Jan 2016

will we ever be free of this stupidity?

It just shows it can happen anywhere. Even Midtown, the healthiest area of the city (after Downtown).

tragic.

navarth

(5,927 posts)
7. Oh New Center eh? Lovely homes around there
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 04:07 PM
Jan 2016

Nice to talk to you...sorry it's in sad circumstances like the sad news in the thread.

Many Detroiters on the DU.

 

SheilaT

(23,156 posts)
3. And an active shooter situtation in San Diego.
Tue Jan 26, 2016, 02:45 PM
Jan 2016

Just another morning in America.

Update: CNN now is saying no evidence of shooting.

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