From Bill Cummings, CT Post:
Another neighborhood erupted in violence over the weekend, leaving a 22-year-old father with a baby on the way dead from gunshot wounds. The homicide marks the second weekend in a row that someone was killed in Bridgeport.
Juvontee Tinsley, 22, of Bridgeport, died at Bridgeport Hospital after being shot around 9 p.m. Saturday evening by an occupant of a car outside a home at 26 Ohio Ave., city police said.
The homicide came only a few feet away from an apartment building where his 19-year-old girlfriend, Deztiny Bellido, lives with their 2-year-old son. She is pregnant with Tinsley’s second child.
Full story here.
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This is absolutely devastating, period. But to have him murdered the evening before Mother’s Day when he has a two year-old and another one on the way, and they live just two doors down from where he was murdered is just tragic.
Maria, let me offer a sad situation many people see here.
19-year-old Deztiny and 22-year-old Juvontee, unmarried with a second child on the way, living in an apartment building that caters to section 8 certificates. Other entitlements perhaps? We associate shootings with drug dealing. This is the ghetto lifestyle, even on Ohio Avenue.
Omg, Tom! Could you be any more cold and cruel? Regardless of their station in life, this is tragic and I am certain a lot of people are very sad today. This really is heartbreaking.
Again Steve, you’re right!!!
Tom White, you may “associate shootings with drug dealing,” however you should not be so presumptuous to assume “we” all do.
What exactly do you know about the “ghetto lifestyle?” I grew up on the East Side on William Street and attended Warren Harding High in the ’80s. Washington Park was where I spent some time and I saw some very troubling things. Since you seem to know so much about the “ghetto lifestyle,” please do share.
Ohio Avenue is in the Thomas Hooker neighborhood and I know the street quite well.
Instead of taking the opportunity to judge others during a tragic time in their lives, why don’t you put away your robe and gavel and show some empathy?
Tom White, let’s say 19-year-old Deztiny and 22-year-old Juvontee are married, what does that have to do with Juvontee’s death? Do you know their financial status or their educational background, or their family’s future plans and what type of job could he get as not to be on Section 8? It’s okay for corporate welfare or banks red lining or banks not paying taxes? No, your concerns seems more to do with who they are.
It is always sad when someone so young and with young children loses their life. But based on the full CT post story, this may not have been a random act. Either way, more needs to be done about the crime.
As far as section 8, painting all those on section 8 with a broad brush is wrong and irresponsible.
Tom White, may I suggest you are more adapted to bigotry than to a ghetto lifestyle.
To Ron and Maria, with respect to Tom White, never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
The shooting on Ohio Ave is the second murder there in two weeks. What has changed that neighborhood from a safe quiet neighborhood to a neighborhood that is unsafe at night? Drive down this section and take a look at who is hanging on the corners. This violence came here with the large influx of section 8 housing. It’s not racial, it’s fact.
Today, while there is no doubt a large part of the population remains willfully racist, a great number of people have also become unconsciously so, buying implicitly into stereotypes about black Americans as dependent. Andy, you and Tom should get in where you fit in.
Why don’t you practice what you preach? Move back to Bridgeport, there is room.
Donald Day, as you know there are certain code words and phrases like caters to section 8 certificates, entitlements, welfare, ghetto lifestyle, drug dealing, those people, these are just a few code words to reference blacks and people of color. A white code word that is used in hiring is AA, meaning All American or white, this placed on applications to let employers know who’s white because race can’t be on the application.
Donald Day, who said black Americans are dependent? Donald, you are looking at everything as being racist when it’s not. When it was said the Ohio Area has changed and is a troubled area, that was not a racist statement, in fact there were no racist or race identified in my post. Maybe it’s you who is racist.
It appears Andy and I have received a lecture. I anticipated remarks to my intentionally cold statement. Other than Steve, they reflect the refusal to acknowledge deep social problems and statistical reality.
Maria, people who have been active in the community long-term are familiar with my background. You are relatively new. My family lived in public housing when I was born, but it was not the ‘ghetto’ (a popular expression used by young people) population we see today. Back then you did not have baby mommas and baby daddies living on ‘entitlements.’
My remarks reflect conclusions I have come to based on first-hand experience and my opinion programs beginning with the ‘Great Society’ have created more harm than good.
Tom White, the ‘Great Society never got to go into action because America could not pay for the ‘Great Society’ because that funding was given to fight the Vietnam War.
Not that many years ago this neighborhood was crime free. Not any more. I would bet we are pretty close to be being at the top of the crime stats. LAST NIGHT there was an armed robbery of the Valero gas station by three misunderstood youths. Imagin, in two weeks we have two murders and an armed robbery.