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East Bronx, SUV decries double homicide in 49th Pct.
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BY ALEX MITCHELL
After two young men were
gunned down in a double homicide
on Sunday, August 11, one
Bronx community is taking a
different approach to protest the
senseless violence.
It was just before midnight
when a 21-year-old man was shot
in the neck and a 17-year-old man
took a bullet in his torso at the
Parkside Houses NYCHA complex’s
2975 White Plains Road
property. The two were already
dead by the time offi cers from
the 49th Precinct arrived on
the scene at nearby 2955 White
Plains Road.
EMS responded to the location
and transported both victims
to Jacobi Hospital, where
they were both formally pronounced
deceased.
However, Jacobi is just getting
started with its response to
the fatal shooting. Stand Up To
Violence, a violence intervention
program done by Jacobi held a
march to the spot of the deadly
double homicide on the evening
of Wednesday, August 14.
“We view violence as a disease,”
said Carjah Dawkins, director
of SUV. “The cure to violence
is bringing the community
together to fi nd ways to prevent
these kind of acts,” she continued
on.
In the program’s fi ve-year existence,
it had developed a few
‘target areas’ within the east
Bronx to push for a reduction of
violence and to intervene with
potentially dangerous situations
and the individuals that may be
inclined to commit such acts.
Sunday’s fatal shootings were
within that target area.
It was also the fi rst incident
of gun violence in one of SUV’s
target areas in 183 days and the
fi rst homicide since October of
2018.
“This is defi nitely a blow to
us,” Dawkins said, mentioning
SUV’s involvement with local
youth community centers given
the young age of the two male
victims.
The program intends to work
with different community outlets
to create a large scale commemoration
of the shooting to
serve as an indicator that those
sort of incidents will not be tolerated
and can be avoided.
“We can’t be numb to violence,”
she continued.
Besides the recent setback,
Dawkins explained that the program’s
target areas have seen
a 44% reduction in violence
since SUV rolled out in full
force.
It’s also a task of the program
to send outreach workers
into the communities and target
areas in efforts to spread
the message of violence alternatives
while doing similar to
trauma and gunshot victims
that were transported to Jacobi
Hospital, even if not from
an SUV target area.
“Getting out and spreading
a message like this is very critical,”
said 49th Precinct Community
Council president, Joe
Thompson.
He explained the current
shootings remain under investigation
as of press time while
reiterating the point that community
involvement and intervention
goes a long way in the
ongoing duel with violent crime.
“It is on the community to
unite and say that we will not
tolerate this,” he said.
“Even further, it’s on the
community to explain that there
are alternatives to such violent
acts, the rally brings awareness
to that on all ends,” Thompson
continued.
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