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Shots Fired! |
By Sid Vanderpool |
It was a gang related shooting right outside the hotel and the clump of what I thought was clothes in the road, was really a young gang member that had his life taken from him in a hail of bullets. I realize that people living in the city see this all the time and are numb to it, but I was stunned. One moment I was at NAMM, and the next I was wading through police to get to my room. This must have been "old hat" for the officers because like a fine military group, they deployed in search of the shooter. With the helicoptor blairing, "This is the LAPD, surrender or we will release the dogs", I felt like I had woke up in another country, not another city. When I checked in, I knew I was in a bad neighborhood, but I had no idea it was this bad. The manager told me after the shooting he would understand if I wanted to checkout and find lodging elsewhere. That would have been a little hard considering all the rooms in the area were full with NAMM. To think that a stray bullet could come flying through my hotel window at anytime during the night made my nights long and drawn-out. With each passing day I drove by were the boy had been gunned down and what started as a small alter with a few candles, slowly turned into a huge alter at the side of the road. This NAMM show will be a memory that with stay with me for rest of my life and makes me glad I live where I do. |
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