Where are Jessie and Al? The locals are cooperating with police because the code was broken. The don’t be a snitch rule is waived when the code of the streets is broken.
Via Detroit FREEP
In the hard-bitten city of Inkster, a little girl’s killing appears to have crossed a line.
The triple shooting Tuesday night that ended the life of 2-year-old Kamiya French and left two of her relatives wounded violated the “code of the streets,” said neighbor Antwan Harrison. A witness said Kamiya had been playing outside when she was shot in the head at point-blank range.
But as residents struggled to understand what was described by the city’s police chief, Hilton Napoleon, as retaliation for a shooting in April, the community spoke out, providing tips that helped police arrest a suspect less than a day later in Brownstown Township, Napoleon said today.
Kamiya, who would have turned 3 next week, was identified by her mother, Erica Gross, according to the Wayne County Medical Examiner’s Office. Her death has been ruled a homicide. The shooting critically injured a 12-year-old girl and left a 34-year-old man with nonlife-threatening injuries, according to the Michigan State Police, which is investigating the incident.
A witness said a man walked up to two kids playing in a yard and shot the 2-year-old, then turned the gun on her father and the other girl, who was struck multiple times.
“He shot the baby,” said Andy Anderson, 51, of Detroit, who was standing near a car when the shooting started about 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. “I thought, ‘No, he didn’t.’ And then he turned the gun and started shooting on the porch.”
Investigators remained at the scene more than 12 hours after the shooting at the Parkside Estates housing complex on the 30000 block of Carlysle Street in Inkster.