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2020-12-06 20:50:53 Regarding the September 19, 2020 shooting: Here are some comments based on a D&C article today, December 6. In defense of the city and police, the COVID-19 pandemic has slowed court proceedings, which impacts arrests. When a suspect in the shooting is arrested for some other crime, possible witnesses to the shooting may be more willing to make statements to the police than if the suspects are free. Also, in cases with multiple potential suspects, the police prefer to question or detain all the suspects simultaneously. Since this incident involves at least a couple hundred witnesses and neighbors, it has been a slow process. Still, it is unclear how much help any witnesses may have provided, although one imagines the police have been knocking on a lot of doors. —GaryGocek
2021-01-19 21:11:20 Regarding the September 19, 2020 shooting: The organizer of the "small" party (a 19-year old woman at her sister's house) was befriended in the days after the shooting by a Monroe County legislator (a 40-something married man). The legislator is now being investigated over an incident in which he texted an explicit image to the young woman. He says he accidentally sent the image to the young woman instead of to his own wife. The police have announced no progress in the shooting investigation. —GaryGocek
2023-08-05 18:50:32 My entries in 2023 are not exactly individual mass-shooting incidents, i.e., there are separate perpetrators. But when 8 people get shot or stabbed in one night, I feel this needs to be shared. I hope someone, anyone feels pressured to help resolve this chaos, even if it's just private citizens whose family members are the perps. This whole article should not exist, but these events continue to occur, and someone isn't doing enough to stop them. —GaryGocek
2024-07-30 08:06:36 Hi Mark Jackson, regarding the ugly code on this mass shootings page, I'm sure I originally copied that off some other page with a tabular display. But I don't remember where. If you can point me to an example of a different Rocwiki page with a table and cleaner wiki code, please send that to me. I would rework the code. —GaryGocek
2024-07-30 14:34:09 Yes, I see that this WikiCode is more rigid than HTML, in particular about inserting whitespace. Even a blank line separating rows messes it up. I find one can separate rows by inserting a comment marker "##" at the head of an otherwise blank line without changing the page appearance. Whether this is worth the trouble - or any improvement in readability at all - isn't clear. —markjackson
