How Dangerous Is Old Fourth Ward?
Residents complain about lack of police presence, spotty notification and open drug dealing on Boulevard
A weekend murder and several shootings have people in the Old Fourth Ward on edge, wondering if their neighborhood is under a crime seige. But at a packed meeting of neighborhood residents Thursday night in the Helene S. Mills Senior Multipurpose Facility, Atlanta Police Department officials said violent crime in Old Fourth Ward is not spiraling out of control. The move to calm residents' fears comes after the early morning shooting death of a man Oct. 30 on Sampson Street off North Highland Avenue. The killer remains at large. It also comes after another Old Fourth Ward resident had his car and home shot at. But police sought to allay residents' fears. Murders, in the two police beats that cover Old Fourth Ward, are at two, year-to-date, …
Steve Gower
2:50 am on Saturday, November 12, 2011
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