Shooting on Payson Street
I was driving around last night after 11 PM. The police had Payson street shut down from Ashton to Wilkens. Lots of police cars and two ambulances. I guessed that someone got shot. Saw the following on the Baltimore Sun web site.
7-25-2018 At about 11:15 pm, Baltimore police officers responded to a report of gunshots in the 400 block of South Payson St. In Southwest Baltimore's Carrollton Ridge neighborhood. Officers found two shooting victims, according to police. A 43-year-old man had multiple gunshot wounds and was transported to a local hospital, where he died. Another man, 39, was also taken to a hospital and is expected to survive, police said.
That is a street I drive on frequently. Things are getting scary. This happened even with the stepped up police presence lately. This area will probably now have even more police around. I wonder if they will start setting up checkpoint / road blocks, where they check all cars passing through. Be extra careful. Make sure all your tail lights and brake lights are working. And check your car to make sure no one has left anything behind.
Frank.
WW & Brooklyn Loops this am
I had time to kill this morning so I took a quick tour of the strolls. My first stop was the WW loop. I drove down McHenry first hoping to catch up with Liz. The street was dead except a cop sitting in his cruiser just watching an alley. On the way back to Wilkens, I passed another cruiser parked on the road and took that as a warning that WW was still hot. Perhaps because of uncles attention, there wasn't much talent out anyway.
I headed out from WW by way of Washington and there was a cute blond in a tube top by the you-haul. She looked pretty good and I was tempted except there were a ton of people on the street and several trucks parked right by her, running with the drivers watching, so I continued over to Brooklyn.
On my first pass through B, I spotted two WSWs that both looked pretty decent. I pulled the trigger and picked up Maria, a tall girl with long, brown hair. She was pretty cute and easy to work with. We went to my spot and as most do, she said she's really good at head and usually gets above scale but agreed on the standard. Well, she didn't lie! She really was much better than most and earned a premium after all was done. Unfortunately, she didn't have a phone, so I'll have to look for her. She did say she is almost always out at night and being out this morning was unusual.
I dropped her off and headed off home but as I left Brooklyn I saw an EXCEPTIONALLY cute WSW with reddish-blond shoulder length hair. She smiled and waved and if I wasn't totally spent, I absolutely would've picked her up. That was on 4th & Wabash at about 10:30.
Stay safe,
Jack.