whats that now two shootings in two days?

my son plays baseball there during the week and i am very leery on letting him play there because of the violence going on so close to home!

Nice spin, ProJo.

When a 19-year-old is shot in Central Falls he is routinely referred to as a 'teenager.'

When the shooting is in Providence we are told that 'a young man was shot.'

And it's a good thing you mentioned that the shooting in Davis Park occurred just outside the right field fence, not in the part of the park bordered by Valley Street/Pleasant Valley Parkway. Otherwise, it might give the impression that the West Side of Providence is a scary place.

And now the Journal reports that "Mayor David N. Cicilline pronounced the shooting an aberration."

even though

“That’s not an aberration,” Jim Keating, a coach of Caprio’s Crew, told the mayor. He reminded Cicilline that there had been gunshots fired in daylight at the park on Sunday, too, but that nobody was struck by a bullet. “It’s sort of what you would expect to happen,” given the presence of young toughs, Keating said. “We were anxious before this happened.”

(http://www.projo.com/ri/providence/content/MC_Davis_05-14-08_H3A4LMV_v36.34a1b17.html )

If anybody wasn't sure whether Esserman was whitewashing that stats, there ya go. Maybe Sunday's shooting, since nobody was hit, was recorded on the books as a 'gun-cleaning accident.'

Maybe he meant that an aberration is when the intended target is hit, that they usually miss their targets, like the other day when one thug shot at another thug from his car and missed, and hit an innocent woman in a minivan with her kids.

police is never quicker then shots fired