The 234 Apartment

A man was wounded in a shooting Monday in a confrontation at Creekwood North apartments on O’Neal Road in the northern part of Gulfport’s Orange Grove area . Deputy Police Chief Chris Loposser said the shots followed an “altercation” early Monday afternoon at the complex a few blocks east of U.S. 49. The man was taken to a hospital by ambulance while investigators were trying to find other parties who were present when it happened, he said. The shooting is the city’s second with injuries or death in less than two weeks, and both occurred at opposite ends of O’Neal Road. A man was fatally shot July 6 at O’ Neal Road Apartments near Three Rivers Road. Police were called to Monday’s shooting shortly before 1 p.m. “We realized when we got here, after to speaking to witnesses, that there was an altercation with gunshots involved,” Loposser said. The wounded man was shot once, he said. No details were available on a motive or where the shooting occurred. No crime-scene technicians were ...

click to enlarge I can’t remember exactly when I started at the Riverfront Times , but it was a long time ago — the web site was a .PDF of the paper that was uploaded on Wednesday morning . I can say that I’ve lived or worked (sometimes both) in the Loop since Bill Clinton was in the White House. I've been coming down here for films, books, meals and weird people watching since the late ‘80s, back when gangs of feral kids camped out in the street- level parking lot across from the Tivoli. The stretch of Delmar between the St. Louis Noodle Cafe and the University City Public Library has been my psycho-geographical concept of St. Louis for more than half my life. But now I'm in the process of packing up my office in preparation for a move. This afternoon, the RFT is leaving our home of 21 years on Delmar. By tomorrow, the paper will be based in Downtown West, and so will I, at least during office hours. Goodbye to all that. We’re only the latest business to say that...