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The Cincinnati Enquirer FROM PAGE A1 A16 Friday, June 16. 1995 EK Avondale man killed .1, theoriz Most crime in city is black-on-black Criminals usually strike close to home; most are young and short of hope Shooting: CONTINUED FROM PAGE Al one of the assailants kicked him in the side, Young said. Police are searching for as many as six black men, all between 16 and 22. Police had made no arrests by late Thursday. Thursday afternoon, Young stood with a group in the 3500 block of Van Antwerp and observed that such violence is far too common in Cincinnati's poor neighborhoods.

"It happens every day in the 'hood," said Dan Smith, 30, of Avondale. "You can't be out at a certain time of night without worrying about being robbed. If you're out late at night, they think you're dealing drugs or you're out here gambling and you have money." Pulliam was visiting Young and Mike Jackson, 18, of Avondale. The three had been cruising through the neighborhood in Pul-liam's car, and Pulliam had decided to spend the night with friends there, Jackson said. Jackson was walking toward his home at Van Antwerp and Glen-wood and Pulliam and Young were about to drive to a convenience store.

Young was sitting in the car's passenger seat when Pulliam realized he didn't have his keys. He turned back toward a nearby building where he thought he may have left them when the van stopped in Race crime Race and other statistics for major Race and other statistics for major violent crimes in Cincinnati from January through May. I Murders, rapes, 1 robberies and 1 I Perpetrators involved 9 447 i 1 In these crimes Ereakicv.Ti by race Black attackars VVf ile attackers on Wack White attackers on victims white victims Ttwewere 16 incidents involving Asian victims Of li attacker, and 217 incidents where the race of either the victim or the attacker was not known. 'BxiS Source: Potce division offanw report tar ssd violent crimes The Cincinnati EnquirerJonathan Massie bors. "When they get all that bitterness, well, they end up hating themselves," she said.

"You program that into a child all his life, that child is going to raise up with a hard heart. These are cold children, lacking love." WTSTH FRIDAY SATURDAY SUNDAY NEGRO Matching Caps AvauaDie BLACK DENIM ICflNC a waist sizes: lU 28-42 30-36 Limit 2 1 Limit 2 per customer. Black attackers on black victims 1,320 (55.6) I i9323 4S3 (20.3yr 33 CJ the street. When the men opened fire, apparently at random, with a dark-colored handgun and a silver-colored one, the clusters of people scattered. Police characterize the Van Antwerp neighborhood as a heavy drug-trade area, and residents acknowledge that groups of teens frequent the area to play dice.

Some nighttime activity is less ominous, Young said. "Rolling," or driving around, is popular. So issit-ting and tallang with friends. Police records show Pulliam was arrested in Corryville March 22 on a drug abuse charge, a minor misdemeanor, but his friends and family say that he was an honorable young man. "He was respectful and kind," said Charla Boyd, 18, Pulliam's girlfriend and the mother of his two daughters, Janae, 2, and Jade, 10 months.

Thursday, Boyd leaned against the wall of the Avondale home Pulliam shared with his grandmother, blinking tears from her eyes. Pulliam's mother, Kathy Pulliam, held her granddaughter in silence, too distraught to talk. She was visiting from Rockford, 111., where her son has lived off and on over the last two years. Along Van Antwerp, Pulliam's friends dealt with what they saw the night before by talking through GOLF SHIRTS hXsrS S3 it, dissecting the shooting, ing what the assailants might ($5 next. They also struggled with th loss of their friend.

"My boy just took care of hlsr business, took care of his woman and took care of his girls," Yourig said. His tone turned bitter as hej talked of those who shot Pulliam, "It's going to catch up with them boys." i Police described the suspects all males 16-to-22, as: 5 foot 8 to 6 foot, thin, um to dark complexion, mustache afro. 5 foot 8 to 6 foot, medium build, light to brown complexion; short hair, mustache and goatee. 5 foot 8 inches to 6 foot tall, dark complexion, medium build. Suspects 4 and 5 both 5 feet 8 inches to 6 feet tall, medium build, dark complexions.

I Driver: 5 feet 5 inches to 5 feet 7 inches tall, Small build, short hair, dark complexion, round face and short nose. The van was described as full-size a two-tone brown and beige, with a window and possibly a horizontal wave-shaped stripe down the sideSl It is possibly mid-1 980's model, possibly a Ford club wagon with tinted windows. Passenger side of van has two pull-out doors instead of a sliding door. CsH0CT5wpwkets3 mens ladles a Ai TANK TOPS Red, Navy, Black, Green, White and more! Adult Sizes i---innn--i-i 2 33 victims were black males; all the assailants in those killings were black. Black women reported 110 rapes, more than twice the number of white women who reported a sexual assault.

Black men were identified as the attacker in 103 of the rapes of black women. Frank Cullen, a University of Cincinnati professor of criminal justice, said criminals strike their own, usually in poor neighborhoods and in part because it's easy. "Most criminals, particularly younger criminals, don't engage in crime in a sophisticated, organized fashion," he said. "Much of it is spontaneous and opportunistic. The vast majority of all crime is commited reasonably close to where they live." Black violent criminals in Cincinnati are young.

The average age of a black violent assailant was 24, according to The Enquirer's analysis. "It is an economic problem," said Dorothy Terry, president of the community council of the English Woods public housing complex. "There aren't any jobs for young blacks, so (some) handle it the wrong way. They sell drugs. They look at it as a job.

Then they go after each other out on the streets." Cullen at UC said the erosion of steady working-class jobs in the inner city has put pressure on already strained families. Drugs, federal cutbacks and movement of middle-class blacks from traditional black neighborhoods have also helped turn poor black areas into hothouses of violence. "It's hurt the quality of parenting," Cullen said. "Early family parenting seems to have a large impact on later criminality. As families become more strained, more broken, that has a large impact on the kids who are going to become criminals." Griffith-Ford in Evanston said whole generations of poor black children are now prone to violence usually directed at their neigh- BY CAMERON McWHIRTER The Cincinnati Enquirer The drive-by killing of 18-year-old Tijuan Pulliam brings into focus a blunt reality of violence in Cincinnati: Most of the murders, rapes, robberies and assaults committed in this city are black-on-black crimes.

"All of our communities are facing this problem," said Carolyn Ford-Griffith, pastor of the Hope Temple in Evanston, a neighborhood where two black children were shot and killed this spring. "These young boys don't rob in the rich neighborhoods. They prey on people who are weak. All they want is some quick easy money. And you and I know exactly where it goes.

Crack." Through the Ohio Public Records Act, The Enquirer obtained all listings of incidents and locations of murders, rapes, robberies and assaults committed in Cincinnati from January through May. The newspaper also requested racial breakdowns and ages of victims and criminals in each cases. The Enquirer analysis paints a picture of black-on-black crime in the Queen City. The causes of this intraracial violence are complex, stemming from decades of segregation and economic deprivation. But no matter the source, violent crime today is a major problem in the black community.

More than half of all perpetrators of violent crimes 55.6 percent were blacks who committed crimes against other blacks. A black living in Cincinnati is almost 10 times more likely to be the victim of another black in a violent crime than of a white. White-on-black crime accounted for less than 2 percent of all crimes against blacks. White victims, however, were a little more likely to have been attacked by a black attacker than a white. Of the 13 murders committed in the city from January to the end of May, 11 of the victims were black.

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