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Meeting spotlights fighting crime |
Columbia City Councilman E.W. Cromartie encouraged residents of the Colony Apartments on Saturday to continue cooperating with police after recent shootings, including one that injured two people.“If you see it, tell it,” Cromartie told more than 50 people at the Booker Washington Heights Cultural Arts Center during a Save Our Community meeting he organized.The meeting targeted residents of the complex, Bethel Bishop Chapelle apartments and the Booker Washington Heights neighborhood.The aim was to get people to open up to police, city leaders and apartment complex managers about criminal activity.On Sept. 16, two people were shot, including a C.A. Johnson High School student, on Bailey Street near the Colony, which is a known area for gang and other criminal activity.
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