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  1. 1

    Beth Hayes Nigri

    Evidently the answer to everything and everyone you don’t like these days is get a gun and just start shooting. When did we become a totally violent society.

  2. 2

    Dana Lucas Simpson

    And so it begins….a different level of violence making its way into good hard working towns, won’t be long and Trussville will be another Roebuck and Center Point, people just shooting, killing and robing. What a Sad society it has become!

  3. 3

    Ginger Kennedy

    It can happen anywhere

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    Pamela Whittington Shepard

    Someone got mad about something and I bet it wasn’t good! Guns are not the answer!!!

  5. 6

    Jessica Garrison

    We are a very strong community with hard working citizens who work together to prevent such from happening.

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    Arlene Hicks

    Well the fine folks of Center Point used to be the same old hard working individuals just as a reminder.

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    Connie King Gaines

    Most shootings are drug related. Drugs are rampant everywhere.

  9. 10

    Jeremy Ware

    Arlene Hicks incorrect

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    Gary Bowers

    Dangerous neighborhood.

  11. 13

    Chris Clendenin

    Well there goes the chance of us ever getting a chicken salad chick

  12. 14

    Dana Lucas Simpson

    Yes, I agree they were hard working as my mom was one of them, I lived in center Point for a short time back n the day, then people came in started shooting the place up and robbing so the ones that could leave left and moved on down the road,
    it just seems to move on down the road as the years go by…. I love all police especially Trussville police and they are hard working, I also know for a fact that we need a crap tone of more police in our city, and if you dont see that, you must be blind ….. its pretty obvious that it’s grown waaaaaaay to big for our small department.
    I guess that’s the new mayors job….
    I also know that Birmingham and Jefferson county sheriffs dept is way larger than ours and that’s who covers those areas…

  13. 15

    La'Shara Gentry Long

    April Pinkie WTH going on in TrussVegas?!

  14. 16

    April Pinkie

    👀 see profile pic 😂

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    April Pinkie

    In other news… yard bird opens tomorrow 😂😂😂

  17. 20

    Jessie Jay Phillips-Chaney

    Kelly L Washington did you see this?

  18. 21

    Kelly L Washington

    Not in Trash Vegas??? Nothing ever happens in their elite city

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    Jane Spearman Sedran

    The shooter very specifically targeted a house where a drug raid/arrest was made earlier this year. It wasn’t random. That doesn’t make it a good thing but it also doesn’t make it a “Trussville is full of thugs and guns” thing. Neighbors and the TPD are VERY aware of this house and those that visit it frequently. Now, I’m unsure if we’ll get that Chicken Salad Chick location. Probably not in Tutwiler. But, Yard Bird is open.

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    Jenin Whatley

    It’s hilarious to me when people ignore drug problems and think that crime only comes when “other people” move in. Poverty, drugs and crime go hand in hand. People have to stop ignoring the drug problems in this state. Things like this aren’t based on what side of town you live on. Where you have drugs all the other crap will come. Between that and sex trafficking this state has major issues.

  21. 24

    Carson Young

    I worked in news for 5 years in Birmingham. I covered shootings and even murders in every town you could imagine would be deemed normally safe. It can happen anywhere. It’s certainly not an indictment of the city as a whole

  22. 25

    Jane Spearman Sedran

    I truly feel bad for the two younger siblings. They were reportedly the only ones at home when the shooting occurred. Crazy.

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    David Echols

    Roebuck is, for the most part, within the confines of the city limits of Birmingham. Unless you plan on hiring enough officers to be everywhere at every moment, the size of the department is irrelevant. Trussville has its drug dealers and drug abusers just like Birmingham, Hoover and yes even Liberty Park. Sooner or later drugs bring crime, including but not limited to burglaries, robberies and even shootings.
    Do I feel safer in Trussville than I do in Centerpoint? With the exception of the Walmart shopping center yes I do. But I’m still armed because crime can happen anywhere. So please don’t be naive to think that Trussville can be crime free or that a larger department will keep it from happening.

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    David Echols

    Jenin Whatley , sadly, people don’t think of the soccer moms that are hooked on painkillers as drug abusers. One day those prescriptions will run out and just like any other addict they will try to find more. It might be they travel to Centerpoint to get it or they might drive to Calumet and get it from a doctors wife. They don’t consider her a drug dealer either.

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    Dana Lucas Simpson

    I’m definitely not a naive one to crime at all, I happen to hear about it every night, on the news and of course being a part of a Leo family, I also carry everywhere I go, that’s how naive I am to crime and violence!
    If you look at other cities like Vestavia Hills, Mt Brook, Homewood, Irondale, Pelham, Alabester, yes all are different sizes but what I do know about all these departments is, all of them have enough police to cover each other and their city at all times… do you realize that most nights only 2-3 maybe 4 officers are patrolling the city of Trussville, the whole city !!! that’s over 21,000 + citizens as of last year that live in Trussville, not counting all the businesses…
    so do I think we should have a larger department, yes we need more officers the ones we have are way tooo spread thin in an area they cover for their shift, and I never said having a bigger department would keep anything from happening, our police department should be double in its size to cover our growth best, we have grown considerably since our small town days.
    But The side walks, parks and library look real pretty though!

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    Jessie Jay Phillips-Chaney

    Kelly L Washington crime is every where some cities are just good at covering it up. Criminal lives in every zip code no city is perfect especially when it involves drugs.

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    Jenin Whatley

    David Echols yes! Exactly! And you know, when you say it like that it just makes me think that we need to have more of those conversations with our friends. We have to stop feeling as though it’s not our place to say something when we see the behavior early on.

  28. 33

    Evi Jones

    What a bunch of ugly comments no wonder our society is going to !!!!!!. This is what you teach your children . Please be respectful in your comments

  29. 34

    Michelle Quick

    David Echols I completely agree! I have friends that live in rural Blount county and things happen there, too. Being aware of your surroundings, prepared, trained and vigilant in our own protection is the best we can do. And a lot of prayer!

  30. 35

    Mitzi Seales

    Crime is crime no matter where you live.

  31. 36

    Christian Terrell

    Abby Michelle Chiarella???

  32. 38

    Abby Michelle Chiarella

    Yeah my mom was telling me about it yesterday! Crazy lol

  33. 39

    Carolyn Morrison Ford

    I remember dreaming of living in Tutwiler. Again, I thank God for unanswered prayers.

  34. 40

    Carolyn Morrison Ford

    Arlene Hicks, a loooonnnnnnggggg time ago.

  35. 41

    Chris Clendenin

    Jennifer Shelton Clendenin

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    Allen Long

    I mean really, what planet am I living on? I wake up one day and Donald Trump, of all people, is President of the United States and now there’s been a drive by shooting in Tutwiler Estates? Has the entire country gone mad?

  38. 44

    Jessica Ward

    Have you seen this Jasmine A. Ward

  39. 46

    Jordan Wilbanks

    The problem is that people are actually shocked that this could happen. Like Ginger Kennedy said it can happen anywhere. Stop living in an invisible bubble of protection, denial is a dangerous thing.

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  41. 49

    Gwendolyn Wardlow

    Sounds like some folks would like to build a wall around Trussville.

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