To at noon, a violent night in Portsmouth,
several shootings across the
city within the last 24 hours
have police bumping up security
at all high schools in the city.
Casey Baylor is live with reaction
from concerned parents, Casey.
Well, parents I spoke to say
they are relieved to see that
extra bit of security outside their kids
school early this morning and you can
take a look behind me and you can still
see one officer at least one officer is
here outside of icy Norcom high school.
But I should also say parents also tell
me that they are frustrated to see the
non stop violence here in Portsmouth.
One parent, even asking police to
patrol more than just school grounds.
Multiple officers monitored all
three Portsmouth High schools
Friday morning following the recent
string of shootings across the city.
Parents outside IC Norcom High
school are happy to see an
additional police presence.
It did make me feel safe. With the
extra officers being on campus,
Katrina Smith is a parent of a
soon to be graduate at IC Norcom.
Although she understands why additional
officers have stationed at the school,
she says they need to be on the streets.
Although the police are at the schools,
they need to be out here in the communities.
They killers aren't innocent.
Their lunch right now eating lunch.
They're not upstairs about allergy.
Taking the test.
Smith says she lives in cavalier
manner and it's rare to see
officers patrolling there.
When I left the House this morning
and I rolled through the community,
I don't see him out there.
That is where we need them,
because these past few days these
past few weeks, the shootings
haven't happened at the schools.
Smith, a Portsmouth native,
says the violence today looks much
different than what she saw growing up.
They're getting younger and younger.
Is more reckless with hip hop.
No respect for authority.
No respect for adults and
that worries her as she prepares for
her son's graduation in just two weeks.
I want him to live to graduation
and some babies were supposed
to graduate this year. Supposed
to be on the stage in their lot because
their life was senselessly taken.
And another parent I spoke to
told her kids to not go to school
today because of that string of violence
that we saw within the last 24 hours.
That woman also told me that because
she's seeing so much violence take
place here in the city of Portsmouth,
she's planning to pack up her and
her kids and move somewhere else.
We're live in Portsmouth,
I'm Casey Taylor for 13 news now. Casey,
thank you and a Portsmouth Public
Schools spokesperson says that
officers will also be stationed
at the high schools as students
dismiss later this afternoon.
We are learning more about the
multiple shootings from last night.
Portsmouth police say three people
got hurt in separate incidents
within less than two hours.
One person suffered serious injuries.
The other two are expected to be OK
and it's baracco is live where the
second shooting happened and and
Portsmouth police are investigating
multiple cases as we speak.
Ashley, that's right,
this was a violent night and it's
serving as a wake up call for many
people in the community regarding gun
violence in the city of Portsmouth.
We're learning some new information
regarding these cases and the first
shooting happened shortly before 9:00
o'clock last night on Staunton Ave.
Police say they found a 6056
year old woman shot there,
first responders transported her to the
hospital and say she is expected to recover,
but just barely.
An hour later,
police say they received a report
of a person under the age of 18
with a gunshot wound here at London
Oaks Apartments on Virginia Ave.
The shooting happened shortly
before the third shooting excuse
me happened shortly before 11:00
o'clock last night at the intersection
of Alden Ave and Emmons.
Place police say a 31 year old man
is in stable condition after someone
shot him during an argument we
spoke to Vice Mayor de Andre Barnes.
He says he is not surprised by
the recent string of gun violence,
but says not enough.
City leaders are speaking up to help stop it.
What we have going on in the
city right now we we haven't
put any things into place.
Previous management hasn't put
in things to place our Council
hasn't putting anything into place.
We don't have enough police officers.
We don't have any policies in place,
so this is just the the
chickens coming home the roof.
And we're currently working on getting
more details as we speak from Portsmouth
police tonight on 13 news now at four
what Barnes says police are doing
tonight to help people feel safe this
weekend reporting live in Portsmouth.
I'm Lance Baracco for 13 news now
and thank you, and we also reported
this morning on Daybreak that a child
under the age of 18 was also shot.
But since then, Portsmouth police tell
us that incident was self inflicted.