The slaughter of 20 kids in Newtown was only one gun tragedy that day
Similar retaliatory violence also went down that day in Roanoke, where a man said he stepped outside his door after hearing loud noises on his street that evening and was shot in the leg. Over the next decade, police continued to return to that neighborhood, a housing development at Lincoln Terrace, for multiple shootings. A
visited the neighborhood just last week, offering outreach to connect struggling residents with social services.on Winters Lane around 11 p.m. by two men he couldn’t identify. The man survived, but for months after, the neighborhood — a working-class enclave terrorized by a few suspected drug dealers — reported escalating gun violence. Police stepped up their enforcement in the neighborhood; a Baltimore County police officer was killed in a shootout while serving a warrant.
In the hours after Obama mourned the children of Newtown in his public address, Officer Martoiya Lang, 32, a mother of four,and a second officer, William Vrooman, 32, was shot in the leg when they were serving the last round of warrants in a drug case they were working in Memphis. Last year saw the biggest increase in officers killed in the line of duty since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks. And 61 of the 73 killed in attacks were shot, according to
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