Neighborhood troubled by latest homicide

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) – The victim of a homicide in Louisville has been identified as Donald Giles, 44, of Brandenburg, Kentucky. Police said he was shot inside a vehicle at 22nd and Kentucky shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday.

The shooting happened just a few feet from where a stop-the-violence press conference was held six days ago.

"I was devastated this morning when I saw this came right where we were out highlighting our ideas the other day," said Pastor Jerry Stephenson, who led the press conference on June 18. "I said to myself this morning, it just shows the significance of what we were doing the other day. You got to recognize you do have a problem."

"It's like an everyday thing, you have to worry when you let your kids out. My son keeps a cell phone. I'm constantly calling, want to know when where he's at, what's going on, what area he's in. Too much drama out here. Nowadays it seems like it doesn't have to have a real reason," said neighbor Vicki Hamblin.

The neighborhood association blames none of this on policing.

"We don't need extra policemen. We need money to start programs. Once you start programs and people get involved, they don't think about crime," said California Neighborhood Vice President Maurice Beckley.

"They just recently started some good family oriented kickball games several weeks ago on Sundays. My thought was today these families are going to be at these kickball games knowing there was a homicide right there in the same space they're trying to have good outdoor activity," said Connected Voices leader Chris 2X.

One man, who has lived in the neighborhood for 47 years, but who's too afraid to be identified, put the neighborhood's desperation this way,"When your house is on fire, you call the fire department. Our neighborhood's on fire, and we don't know who to call."

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