Posted on 03/24/2011 11:31:47 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
ST. PETERSBURG — About a dozen family members and friends, mostly women, were playing cards at a home Wednesday night when someone knocked on the front door.
When Ebony M. Stewart, a 27-year-old mother of two, answered the door about 10:45 p.m. an unidentified man shot her dead, police said.
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After the shooting spree, the suspects took cash from the various purses in the house and left.
Stewart had two children who were staying with a relative at another house.
The suspect with the handgun was described as black, 20 to 24 years old, about 5 feet 8 inches tall and 150 pounds. He had close-cropped black hair and was wearing a red shirt, a red hat and plaid shorts.
The second man was described as black, 5 feet 10 to 6 feet 1 and 180 pounds. He had shoulder-length dreadlocks and was wearing a blue hat, blue shirt and blue shorts.
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Neighbor Altamease Simpson, 50, said she and many other neighbors were close to Stewart's family. She said they frequently get together for barbecues.
"It just don't make any sense," she said.
Simpson said she was in her apartment behind the 19th Street home when she heard gunshots. A woman climbed out the window of the home and ran to her door, yelling for her to open it. She said she didn't want to open it and called the police.
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Simpson said she hurt for Stewart's two young children.
"Two little children. Their mother's dead. Two little children," she said, puffing on a cigarette. "Some people are so sick, sick. Sick in their heads."
Boca Ciega High School back in the sixties...
Small world. My brother went there for 2 years, early 60’s. The place is a couple blocks from my other brother’s house. FWIW...
I think you nailed it. Good thing the witness wasn’t a man or it could have read “pausing to scratch his...”
Actually, to make your point, I think the brand of cigarette should have been included.
Kool or Newport.
I learned to drive in the “old folks capital of the world” and now I am one!
I think learning to drive where people crossed all lanes just before making a turn, has kept me alive on the roads.
Nice to know of your family. A lot of good people graduated from Bogie — a lot of them went to Vietnam.
Hi Bogie grad!
Years ago I met another Bogie grad while standing in line with my family waiting to tour the White House (back when it wasn’t locked up like a fortress).
How about a real police chief. I don't know a damn thing about Chief Harmon, except that his department is not getting the job done, so he should go. Let's put some teeth on the street and start breaking some habitual offenders' heads, and see how that goes.
It's round-up time. Head'em up, move'em out, mow'em down if we have to.
PS:
Wear your damned vests.
What you see in this incident is that a gambling house was robbed with the obvious consequences.
Why should you care?
Why should I care?
Because what’s happened to our country is criminal.
“Someone pointed out that it is impossible to use any other descriptive word for black due to the pc police.”
I guess we could start using the “race that dare not speak its name”. Is that better?
When I was a waiter, we used the term “Canadians”, because the general consensus was that blacks were bad tippers, so a common phrase we heard was, “Oh crap, I just got a bunch of Canadians at my table.”
The interesting thing is, that it appears black folk on that comment thread are the ones that are frustrated that “black” has become the fall back word (it’s the only word we’ve been told we can use), a catch all term so to speak, and they don’t like that it equates with crime. I’m open for suggestions. Maybe Eric Holder can give us some help.
Nothing will slow you down more than fear that you will ruin your tires on those noisey brick roads. Lived a lot of places, but the brick roads of St. Pete are unique.
Big bro’ went to Viet Nam as well.
Yeah, some folks still use “Canadians” if they want to talk about them discreetly. Some here seem to be using “Amish”, but that is code for an entirely different group, not just some catch-all.
After that ordeal, they are probably chain smoking. Don’t see what that has to do with this horrendous crime.
Or at least indicate "menthol".
What is the difference between a kayak and a “Canadian”?
A kayak tips.
I remember the brick road near Admiral Farragut Academy and Joe’s Smoke House on South Pasadena Avenue.
Hey, there,
I graduated in 1974, my sister in 1960, my brother in 1966, and my dad worked there from 1954-1974. The rest of my family has lots of fond memories, but I got there the year after they integrated, so I experienced race riots and double sessions.
Yup. I lived on Park Street, about 6 houses down from Admiral Farragut Academy. We used to go fishing off the bridge which led to Treasure Island. We also fished at Jungle Prada. When we had to move to Minnesota, we (us kids) were devastated.
St. Pete was a GREAT place to live if you were a kid. After school, I would grab my bamboo cane pole and race down to the 17th Street Pier (no loner extant) and fish till dark.
Went to Roser Park Elementary & Azalea Elementary schools...
>A woman climbed out the window of the home and ran to her door, yelling for her to open it. She said she didn’t want to open it and called the police.
Wonderful neighbors they have there...
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