Coroner identifies 70-year-old man killed after Jacobs neighborhood shooting

DOESN’T HAVE TO BE LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW? NOBODY WANTS TO LIVE LIKE THAT. AND IT JUST SEEMS LIKE IT GETS WORSE AND WORSE EVERY YEAR. THESE ARE DEONTAY ELDER’S SENTIMENTS. AFTER LEARNING A MAN WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN HIS NEIGHBORHOOD JUST ONE STREET AWAY ON GEORGETOWN PLACE, POLICE RESPONDED TO THE AREA NEAR JACOBS ELEMENTARY AROUND 125 SATURDAY AFTERNOON. THE MAN WAS TAKEN TO THE HOSPITAL, WHERE HE LATER DIED. IT USED TO BE KIND OF QUIET NOW IT’S, YOU KNOW, GONE A LOT LOUDER, YOU KNOW, A LOT MORE SHOOTING AND ACTION. YOU KNOW, IT’S IT’S A LITTLE ROUGH. AND NEIGHBORS TELL ME THAT HEARING GUNSHOTS AND ABOUT PEOPLE GETTING MURDERED IN THIS NEIGHBORHOOD IS AN UNFORTUNATE REALITY THAT IS BECOMING ALL TOO COMMON. THE LAST FIVE YEARS OR SO. IT’S GOTTEN SO TERRIBLE WE DON’T EVEN GO. I’M AFRAID TO LET THE KIDS OUT TO PLAY. SHARON WOMACK, WHO’S LIVED IN THE AREA FOR MORE THAN 20 YEARS, SAYS SHE’S NOT ONLY TERRIFIED BUT FED UP. I’M NOT IMMUNE. IT SCARES ME EVERY TIME I HEAR IT. BUT I DON’T CALL THE POLICE ANYMORE BECAUSE WHAT ARE THEY GOING TO DO? THEY’RE NOT HERE FOR BY THE TIME THEY GET HERE, WHATEVER’S HAPPENS, HAPPEN. IT’S GONE. IT’S OVER. AS ANOTHER FAMILY GRIEVES THE LOSS OF A LOVED ONE, CITY LEADERS ARE LEFT TO TRY TO FIND SOLUTIONS TO CURB THE GROWING NUMBER OF HOMICIDES ACROSS THE CITY. DISTRICT THREE. COUNCILWOMAN SHAMIKA PARRISH WRIGHT, RELEASING A STATEMENT SAYING IN PART, WE WILL CONTINUE TO WORK WITH THOSE FOCUSED ON TANGIBLE ANTI-VIOLENCE PREVENTION SUPPORT PROGRAMS AND CONSTITUENTS THAT HAVE WAYS TO ENGAGE AND HELP PEOPLE DIRECTLY IMPACTED PROCESS THIS IN THE