April 15, 2008
Long Island Boy Shot in the Face
An 11-year-old boy is in serious condition after a gunman shot him in the face. The boy, Jeffrey Langhorne, who was home from school, had been sitting in his North Bellport home's kitchen at 1:30 p.m. when the gunman fired.
Suffolk County police detective Daniel Molloy explained, "He was shot from the outside, the bullet went through the wall and struck the child that was in the house." The gunman used a semiautomatic weapon and fired on the house three times. Police do not think the boy was the intended target.
Just eight months ago, a 15-year-old boy was fatally shot when "coming home from an anti-violence event" in North Bellport. The executive director of an anti-gang violence group told Newsday, "This shooting confirms that this community has been neglected to the point that where this stuff is happening and it's going to take a lot more effort to try to get people to stop engaging in this violent behavior."
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I live not too far from North Bellport ... it's one nasty place. Yet Bellport Village, a very short distance away, is quite upscale and might as well be on another planet.
When did Long Island turn into such a ghetto? Especially that far out on the island.
Reality:
Its the same syndrome you find in places in Northern Westchester like Peekskill and, going even further up the line, Newburgh up in Orange. Real estate values in the city went up, so crime migrated to the outlying bad areas that were on the borderline before.
Sad, really.
Yeah but Peekskil and Newburgh don't have beaches!
I blame strip malls.
I'm not sure as if high city real estate values are necessarily the cause of some of the suburban ghettos in Suffolk County. Places like North Bellport and Mastic Beach have been pretty nasty for at least 25 years.
They shifted to eastern Pennsylvania also. Just look at the Allentown Bethlehem Easton area in the last few years and see the shooting rate skyrocket. They are all scum and interesting enough when the jerks get caught out of the city they do time not like the city where they walk. Maybe the word will get out that "You do the crime, you do the time."
That's why we have so many Pennsylvania license plates on the cars of our Brooklyn brothers.
FYI on the kid shot up ... cops had to hold up questioning of the family as they called the SPCA to get rid of all the pit bulls in the house.