Posted on 01/24/2015 10:49:01 AM PST by csvset
One of the women killed early Saturday was Jakela Foster, 19, The World-Herald has learned. Foster had a young son, and according to her Facebook page, was a sales associate at DialAmerica, a telemarketing firm. She had studied culinary arts at Metropolitan Community College.
A party at a northeast Omaha house turned into a killing scene early Saturday when, police said, eight people were shot, including two women who died. Hours earlier, two more people were shot in a house nearby, also during a party, police said. That 10 people were shot within 4½ hours in the Prospect Hill neighborhood of northeast Omaha stunned people who knew the victims and those who did not. Police said they were trying to determine whether the two shootings — just two blocks apart — were linked. Police said no arrests had been made. The investigation, complicated by multiple victims, “will be arduous” and had just begun, Deputy Chief Dave Baker said.
Eight of the victims were shot about 1:45 a.m. in a house at 3402 Parker St., Baker said. The earlier shooting, at 10:10 p.m., occurred 1710 N. 32nd St., about a block away from the Parker Street house. The women who died at the Parker Street house were believed to be in their 20s. At least one of the other victims was in critical condition, police said. Two were in serious condition. Baker did not release information about the condition of three of the victims, who were taken to the Nebraska Medical Center in private vehicles. Beneath a street light a block from the Parker Street house in the hours after the shooting, two men hugged each other and moaned. A relative of one of the victims pleaded with an officer to take her to the body. "I just want to know if it's her," she said again and again.
The woman was not allowed past the yellow crime scene tape that ringed the area around the shooting scene. Not long after, as the emotions of the victims' relatives flared at the Nebraska Medical Center, there was a large disturbance that drew officers from across the city to quell. Baker said two people were arrested on suspicion of disorderly conduct. For a time, the emergency entrance to the medical center was closed. Omaha police locked down the Nebraska Medical Center from 3 a.m. to 3:30 a.m. after "scuffles" took place outside the emergency department, said Taylor Wilson, a hospital spokesman. Patients already inside the emergency department were not moved. "Everything operated as normal inside. We just were not allowing other people to come in at that point," Wilson said.
He was not aware of any ambulances that were diverted during the lockdown. The shootings added to a burst of violence in the city this month and were the third and fourth homicides this week. Roberto Gonzalez, 20, was shot to death Thursday morning near 24th and P Streets. Another man, Jameson Toler, 29, was shot and killed the same morning in a parking lot at the northwest corner of Maple Street and Maplewood Boulevard. There have been eight homicides in Omaha this year. At this time last year, there had been one.
Top police officials, including Chief Todd Schmaderer, his deputy chiefs and the northeast precinct captain, went to the Parker Street scene.
About an hour after the shootings, officers raced to a nearby block, where there was a report of a person walking with a gun and firing it. No one was struck, and one person was taken into custody, Baker said. He did not say whether the incident had any connection to the earlier shootings.
In the 10 p.m. shooting, two people at a gathering inside the North 32nd Street house were shot by someone firing from outside, perhaps from a vehicle, police said. Liondell Richard, 27, was hit in the lower part of his body and Mahogany Phillip, 38, was shot in an arm. Neither injury was considered life-threatening, Lt. Mark Matuza said.
About 20 people were inside the house at the time of the North 32nd Street shootings, Matuza said. People were pushing and shoving one another as police arrived, and at least two people were ticketed on suspicion of disorderly conduct, he said.
Richard was taken by ambulance to the Nebraska Medical Center; Phillip went there in a private vehicle. Saturday morning, police maintained a scene at least one block in each direction of 34th and Parker Streets. The area, near Prospect Hill Cemetery, is also home to a barber shop, Shaves and Fades, at 33rd and Parker Streets, and a liquor store.
The home at 1710 N. 32nd St., where the first shooting occurred, sits across the street from a playground and a community garden.
Friends and family of the victims gathered at 33rd and Parker Streets Saturday morning, talking with police and comforting each other. City Councilman Ben Gray and Barbara Robinson, program manager for Impact One Community Connection, an Omaha anti-violence group, were also there. Police said anyone with information on the violence should call the homicide unit at 402-444-5656. To report tips anonymously, call Crime Stoppers at 402-444-7867.
Stay with Omaha.com for more on this developing story.
Reading comments on a Omaha television station’s, (WOWT), website, it appears that some folks say that the police presence in North Omaha is too heavy? The man is oppressing the indigenous tribes !
Avg home price 45,000
The weekend isn't over yet, but a quick check shows Omaha is currently ahead of Oakland, CA by 1 in the homicide tally for 2015.
Saw this website charting Omaha's 29 homicides in 2014. Location, location, location.
Well, sometimes anyway.
“Jakela Foster”..........
You can stop reading right there. Street Rats just celebrating a little and doing what the do.
That’s funny; soon as the cops are pulled then they’ll complain about that. Here in NJ that is their complaint but there is no money left; they don’t pay for police protection, so they don’t get much. Police protection in our cities is increasingly dedicated to the needs of the few remaining businesses that are actually paying taxes (and therefore, the police themselves).
Even more toward the end.
About 20 people were inside the house at the time of the North 32nd Street shootings, Matuza said. People were pushing and shoving one another as police arrived, and at least two people were ticketed on suspicion of disorderly conduct, he said.
Sounds a bit like it may be a 'no go' zone.
North O is a toilet. If it wasn’t for a couple of decent rib joints, you could flush everything east of 30th and north of Maple.
W’ere desperate for some white shootings here in Chattanooga, after night after night of feral yute shootings. Every few months we have a white shooting and the press is overjoyed to report every detail!
Have to wonder. She’s wearing a cross. Not something you’d normally see on someone who’s messed up.
No free lingerie/no peace!
Ummm... why don’t urban black people sleep at night?
Maybe it’s just me, but it seems like they’re always up and about in the wee hours of the morning when the shootings are most likely to happen. Put down the doobie and/or the malt liquor, say good night to your friends and go the **** home and get some sleep.
Appears safest is south of US 275 and east of US 75.
To me this is very sad that she lost her life to mindless thugs.
I once had a fresh air program young child who came to our house every summer. His gradma (they lived in Harlem) did not allow him out of the house to play because of this crap. There’s no way should could protect him as he grew older if she was to live in a Black area of the States.
When the summer was over and he headed back to Harlem we cried. He cried because his fun time in the country was over and I cried in fear someone was going to kill him.
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