Fatal shooting on Rushcroft Road (27th April 2007)
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Oh no 
It's so depressing to hear this all the time at the moment. Lets hope it is just a phase.
It's so depressing to hear this all the time at the moment. Lets hope it is just a phase.
editor
hiraethified
Yep, deffo a shooting.
Local Rushcroft residents have been put on a 'curfew' till 3am while the police do their stuff.
No idea if it was a fatal shooting or not yet. Let's hope not.
The poor ol'Juice Bar isn't going to get much trade tonight: the police tape is all around them!
Local Rushcroft residents have been put on a 'curfew' till 3am while the police do their stuff.
No idea if it was a fatal shooting or not yet. Let's hope not.
The poor ol'Juice Bar isn't going to get much trade tonight: the police tape is all around them!
Yes, it was in one of the old blocks on the south side of Rushcroft Road - the end block next to the newer Metropolitan flats. Three shots were heard and a couple of guys were seen running off. Someone then came out into the street saying "There's been an arguement in my flat and they've shot him. He's wounded". Police and ambulance turned up within 5mins but the ambulance hasn't left. As they haven't whisked the victim away in a hurry one can only presume he's a gonner.
Sweaty Betty
Hemo rising!
See for a bumpkin like me, who just on a whim travelled to Brixton on her own to PROD last month, i didnt once feel unsafe.....shit thats fucked up as i thought it was such a vibrant place and not somewhere to fear......maybe im a bit naieve eh.....
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
editor said:
Police get thirsty though don't they
I really think you should start labelling your shootings "another shooting no. ??" as posts with just "another shooting" are easily mistaken for another shooting IFSWIM
Johnny Canuck3
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Athos said:
I don't know about them, but I live in a place where people get shot. I don't move, because for the vast majority of the time, nobody's being shot.
ska invita
back on the other side
I think thats an exageration - even in most other parts of south london you would feel safer - although point taken that there are plenty pissed up fuckers in "rural" and not so rural towns looking for fights on weekends.editor said:
Thats true, but there is plenty of stuff that can happen to you in Brixton beyond getting shot - and not all bullets hit their target.editor said:
editor
hiraethified
No, it's not. Really.niksativa said:
I feel safer in Brixton at night that I do in most town centres.
If you're going to bring London up, then - once again - I have to say that I've felt less likely to get attacked by random pissed up tossers in Brixton than in most places I've lived around the capital: e.g. Plaistow, East Ham, Walthamstow, Kilburn, Stratford, Shepherds Bush, Leyton, Leytonstone, Hackney etc., but I can only speak from my own experience.
*hopes that it doesn't all go horribly wrong now after saying that
That's a bit dramatic. How many times have innocent passers by been hit by bullets in the streets of Brixton recently?niksativa said:
Kid_Eternity
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
Athos said:
What everyone in Brixton or just those that post on here from there?
RushcroftRoader
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Just got back from work - its 2:29am. I live on the other end of Rushcroft. Police still there, tape up everywhere. Saw a scene of crime/forensics officer in her white overalls going down the road. All deeply depressing.
That end of the street has been a hotspot of activity for weeks now.
I have to agree with Editor on this one though, lived in Brixton for over three years and never felt particularly threatened, even late at night.
That end of the street has been a hotspot of activity for weeks now.
I have to agree with Editor on this one though, lived in Brixton for over three years and never felt particularly threatened, even late at night.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
lived in brixton for full on quater of a century and still not been shot yet
not even close
nor have i been knifed
y'know i haven't even been mugged... well some kids did threaten me for money a while back i just told them to fuck off
the most that has happened was hassle from other kids as a kid.
on the whole brixton is fairly fucking relaxed...
not even close
nor have i been knifed
y'know i haven't even been mugged... well some kids did threaten me for money a while back i just told them to fuck off
the most that has happened was hassle from other kids as a kid.
on the whole brixton is fairly fucking relaxed...
RushcroftRoader
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Shippou-Chan said:
Fucking right!
gaijingirl
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Have to agree - having been brought up in London I feel safer in Brixton then other areas I've lived in.
agricola
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PacificOcean
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Shippou-Chan said:
As someone who was born and brought up round here, that is the biggest load of bollocks I have ever heard.
In Brixton I have been mugged four times at knifepoint (and I am not exactly the weediest looking person), stabbed as a teenager (walking past something that I wasn't involved in), beaten up twice randomly coming home from a club (and even though I am gay, I don't look it - so it wasn't that) and a mate of mine was put in hospital by some freaked out crack head.
I lived next to a crack house, where I was too scared to leave my house as they were on the stairwell pissing and shitting and being violent.
A friend of mine in another block was murdered by a junkie who was ransacking his house.
In another block I lived in I had to run the gaunlet of condoms and needles on the stairs.
Since I left Brixton I have had no trouble and I love living out here in Zone 6. I can see countryside from my window.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
PacificOcean said:
As someone who was born and brought up round here, that is the biggest load of bollocks I have ever heard.
In Brixton I have been mugged four times at knifepoint (and I am not exactly the weediest looking person), stabbed as a teenager (walking past something that I wasn't involved in), beaten up twice randomly coming home from a club (and even though I am gay, I don't look it - so it wasn't that) and a mate of mine was put in hospital by some freaked out crack head.
I lived next to a crack house, where I was too scared to leave my house as they were on the stairwell pissing and shitting and being violent.
A friend of mine in another block was murdered by a junkie who was ransacking his house.
In another block I lived in I had to run the gaunlet of condoms and needles on the stairs.
Since I left Brixton I have had no trouble and I love living out here in Zone 6. I can see countryside from my window.
Maybe you were just unlucky
jeffreydisaster
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familiar, depressing and avoidable.
billions spent killing in Iraq
- pennies spent against killing in the
capital
billions spent killing in Iraq
- pennies spent against killing in the
capital
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
sounds like you have had a shit time of it..
but i stand by my statement.... everything i said was true for me
the only problem with junkies i have encountered is random people knocking on the door for "£5 for the electricity key" and next door finding some used needles in the front garden
but i stand by my statement.... everything i said was true for me
the only problem with junkies i have encountered is random people knocking on the door for "£5 for the electricity key" and next door finding some used needles in the front garden
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
subz and i wandered into the midst of the clean up operation on the way home from my gig last night. sad. i hope the poor bastard deserved it.
bluestreak
HomosexualityIsStalin’sAtomBombtoDestroyAmerica
you know what i mean.
Minnie_the_Minx
someinenhhanding menbag and me ah bollox
jeffreydisaster said:
The other one wasn't in Brixton
PacificOcean
Unhinged User
PacificOcean said:
As someone who was born and brought up round here, that is the biggest load of bollocks I have ever heard.
In Brixton I have been mugged four times at knifepoint (and I am not exactly the weediest looking person), stabbed as a teenager (walking past something that I wasn't involved in), beaten up twice randomly coming home from a club (and even though I am gay, I don't look it - so it wasn't that) and a mate of mine was put in hospital by some freaked out crack head.
I lived next to a crack house, where I was too scared to leave my house as they were on the stairwell pissing and shitting and being violent.
A friend of mine in another block was murdered by a junkie who was ransacking his house.
In another block I lived in I had to run the gaunlet of condoms and needles on the stairs.
Since I left Brixton I have had no trouble and I love living out here in Zone 6. I can see countryside from my window.
Just to clarify.
I have no problem with "junkies" or "crack heads". If that is their choice then so be it.
However, when they cross the line and make my life a misery then it's a problem.
I have known many "junkies" in my time in Brixton, and indeed, I can count two of them as friends.
Leighsw2
strictly off the record
Living down Rushcroft Rd I was on the scene quite quickly after hearing the gunshots - looks like an attempted robbery on a group of lads living in one of the squatted flats in Clarence House and then the raiders opened fire killing one of the lads in the flat. Shocking. 
I can say that, in 10 years living on Rushcroft, this is the first shooting I can remember. We've had problems in recent years with crack heads, but nothing like this. And I hope it's another 10 years before we see anything like it again.
I can say that, in 10 years living on Rushcroft, this is the first shooting I can remember. We've had problems in recent years with crack heads, but nothing like this. And I hope it's another 10 years before we see anything like it again.
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