The SPD is investigating the murder of a 21 year old man one block from Union College on 854 Union Street! The assailant drove away in a black truck. These is the second shooting near the Union College gates in one year. No one has yet been arrested. Anyone with any info is urges to call the SPD.

  Another sad story from Schenectady, especially in the Union College neighborhood, that until recently was very safe.

This has to be the result of the Bush economy, and Republican control of the country. Oh, and I forgot to mention the 2nd Amendment and veterans too.

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SCHENECTADY & NISKAYUNA
Street gunfi re claims 2 men
Police suspect murder, suicide
BY JUSTIN MASON AND MIKE LAMENDOLA
Gazete Reporters

    Authorities believe a Niskayuna man shot himself at his apartment complex after killing another man in Schenectady in what witnesses called the bloody conclusion to a troubled love triangle.
    Police at the Hillside Village West apartments in Niskayuna surrounded a black Ford pickup that contained the body of the shooter, who authorities believe had gunned down a man a short time earlier. More than a dozen shell casings surrounded the truck, which had crashed into the side of a parked car at the complex shortly before the man died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
    Schenectady County District Attorney Robert Carney said police are still trying to piece together what happened.
    “Preliminary investigation suggests there was a murder in the city and a suicide here,” Carney said after examining the scene in Niskayuna, adding that they appeared to be connected. “Obviously, there’s a lot of legwork to be done before we can establish that definitively.”
    Residents in a nearby apartment complex reported hearing multiple gunshots. One resident said the man bolted from Building 50 and police opened fire on him.
    “We saw the gunshots,” said Tee Huck, who lives in the adjacent building, about 100 feet away from where the truck crashed.
    Witnesses identified the man killed on Union Street as Anthony Marko, 21, of 854 Union St. One witness said the shooter lured Marko out of the apartment with a promise of beer, and then shot him three times with a shotgun. The shooter was not identified late Thursday.
    The witness, who called himself Marko’s best friend, said the shooter asked Marko just before he shot him: “Don’t you know who I am? Come back and drink with us.”
    The young man said he came to the door after he heard the fi rst shotgun blast go off, and then he watched “my best friend get shot.”
    A neighbor said when he heard the shotgun fire, “I thought it was kids setting off fireworks. I heard one go off and then two more. They sounded like M-80s. Then I heard tires peel off.”
    Neighbors said the shooter was dating Marko’s wife, Amanda, and that the couple had two children. A man who said he knew Marko for three years called him a straight arrow who worked two jobs to make ends meet.
    “He had two kids, and two jobs and was getting a third job,” he said.
    The man said Marko and his wife had separated a year ago and that he was paying alimony. The mother has custody, neighbors said.
    “He was a good kid. He didn’t deserve to die for some nonsense,” the man said.
    Police found Marko’s body in the east lane of Union Street, in front of 854 Union. He was lying on his back with his head tilted to the side, covered in blood.
    In Niskayuna, Huck and several neighbors watched police swarming around the truck from the second story balcony of her apartment. Moments earlier, she said the man attempted to leave before police surrounded him and ordered him out of the truck.
    “I heard the cops saying ‘get out of the truck, let me see your hands,’ ” she said.
    Police cordoned off a wide area around Apartment 50 and covered the cab of the black pickup with a tarp. The truck matched a description of one the police were searching for in connection with the Union Street shooting.
    Scanner reports earlier in the evening named the shooter in an all points bulletin and indicated he had purchased a gun earlier in the day. The same reports suggested the man was suicidal after having an argument with his family.
    One man who arrived at the scene in Niskayuna claimed to be a friend of the shooter, who had been summoned by his family. Harley Spooner said the man had only recently moved to the area with his girlfriend — the woman who was married to Marko.
    Spooner said the man — who he described as in his early 20s — bought a rifle after quarreling with his mother and father. He said the man was prone to suicidal thoughts whenever he failed to take his medication. ................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....amp;EntityId=Ar00103

Our prayers go to the victims and residents of this once quiet neighborhood. More senseless killings. Just yesterday I was talking to a reporter who stated that there was only one murder in Schenectady this year. I said wait until warmer weather. Can you imagine a prospective parent thinking about spending over $50,000 a year to send their kids to Schenectady?

  Crime once contained to the Hill has spilled over to the entire City and surrounding towns. The Mayor is completely clueless and refuses to even acknowledge a crime or gang explosion.

Speaking of gang explosions - anyone notice an increase of the "RETS" tags the gangsters have been leaving lately?

They're everywhere lately

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Speaking of gang explosions - anyone notice an increase of the "RETS" tags the gangsters have been leaving lately?

They're everywhere lately

What are "RETS"?

Good one MT. Everyone else is apparently like Mr. Magoo and "Sal" trying to drive around a City built for 120,000 with maybe 50,000 residents and stating what a great job Son of Sam, the all-Krat rubber stamps and Death Ray are doing. The decay is everywhere. Abandoned homes and businesses line every major street.

    You come back from South Carolina and the first thing you notice is the poverty and complete collapse of this County.