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Police still trying identify shooter who left three Cape teens woundedThursday, September 4, 2008
Southeast Missourian Cape Girardeau police are seeking help to identify a suspect or suspects who wounded three teens Wednesday evening on South Hanover Street. Investigators recovered evidence identifying the type of gun used to wound the three, all males, but have not been able to determine who fired the shots. Officers responded about 8:15 p.m. to a report of shots fired at 132 S. Hanover St. When they arrived, they found Ronald Wright, 18, of Chicago with a leg wound and Mario Clemons Jr. of Charleston, Mo., with a bullet wound through his shoulder. A 14-year-old boy with a wound described by Hovis as a "grazing wound" had left the scene and was found near Merriwether and Benton streets. The department is withholding information about the gun as part of the ongoing investigation, he said. On Thursday, detectives conducted additional interviews with possible witnesses and the victims in an attempt to determine the identity of the shooter or shooters, Hovis said. "I don't know if we were able to determine where the shooter was standing," Hovis said. Some people reported seeing a muzzle flash but due to darkness were unable to identify if there were one or more assailants, Hovis said. "We have heard differing accounts of why this occurred," he said. "We have heard it may be retaliation for something that happened in the past." That story, however, has not been confirmed, Hovis said. Identifying the suspect could be difficult because no one reported seeing the shooter in the initial round of interviews, Hovis said. The 14-year-old was treated and released. Hovis was unsure if either of the other two shooting victims remained hospitalized Thursday afternoon. Police are offering a reward of up to $1,000 for information about the shooting. Callers may make an anonymous tip to CrimeStoppers at 332-0500. 335-6611, extension 126 Comments  Note: The nature of the Internet makes it impractical for our staff to review every comment. If you feel that a comment is offensive, please Login or Create an account first, and then you will be able to flag a comment as objectionable. Please also note that those who post comments on semissourian.com may do so using a screen name, which may or may not reflect a website user's actual name. Readers should be careful not to assign comments to real people who may have names similar to screen names. Refrain from obscenity in your comments, and to keep discussions civil, don't say anything in a way your grandmother would be ashamed to read.
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Again, do not blame the police about this. I bet when they find a suspect, he will be out on bond for another offense, or will be on probation. Blame the judges or probation officers. Only one Judge in Cape County is taken seriously and that is Ben Lewis. Check casenet and see how many defense attorney's change judges when their clients are in front of Ben Lewis. All the public defenders, including Jennifer Booth, want the cases in front of Syler because they know that he will be soft on the criminal. Lewis will give probation, but when a violation occurs, he will not give them double secret probation (or sometimes triple secret probation or zero tolerance probation as Syler has said in the past). (Isn't all probation supposed to be zero tolerance? Judge Lewis thinks so.)
Probation is a joke and all the convicted felons know it. The probabtion officers (or at least supervisors) in the area and around the state do more to keep offenders out of jail then they do to put them in jail. A violation on probation should be immediate jail!!!
The shooter will be on bond or probation!!