My first blog post on this site was about all the things you, the reader, don’t see or hear about on the local news.  Shots fired but no victims, domestic disturbances, petty burglaries, you name it.  Some nights the scanner is quiet; other nights the chatter is non-stop.  I’ve learned that the amount of chatter on the scanner is never a true indication of what’s going on.  The scanner has been pretty quiet this weekend, but there have been shootings on both nights so far. 

Last night, I reported on a man who was shot to death at Hickory Hill and Knight Arnold, an area I drive through almost daily to and from my day job.  One of my earlier stories reported a teenager who was shot and killed literally blocks from where I work and around the corner from a close friend of mine. 

So far, the only thing reported in my own hood, Midtown, has been a fire at an abandoned house.  The longer I work here, though, the more I expect to hear something bad near my apartment or even at my apartment.   You never know. 

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