Another Child Killed Involving Nia Terrace Apartments

Nobody's asking the hard questions it seems when it comes to where a young boy lived. He doesn't anymore. He was missing a number of days and found dead within a block.

It's the same complex I lived in when my children passed the view of a body in the parking lot of a slain man by shotgun blasts. Police were called about an abandoned apartment teens were spotted running into immediately after. It took about 12 hours for them to finally approach and enter it.

The same complex my son found a 12 gauge pump shotgun near our apartment. On that call it took over an hour to come out to check. This was just days after the above murder.

The same complex Community Connections runs their homeless transition program, bringing needy families into apartments that would otherwise go vacant and abandoned in their Hyde Park section. On September 11th last year, Community Connections shot a video for fund raising purposes in my apartment, afterwhich a Florida Highway Patrol Sting Operation went down immediately.

The same complex boasting a police substation housed in an apartment facing Hyde Park Road, that never seems to be manned and is ineffectual against criminal activity including drug usage openly within 20 yards of children playing at the afterschool program run by Community Connections.

Individual homeless service providers have related to me of their fear of entering into Nia Terrace's complex, not just due to rumor but from direct knowledge and experiences they've had when facing gang activity on the property, organized or not. Those individuals trying to service clients residing there make it a point of knowing what area to enter that's safest for them, in light of criminal pressences.

This is now the third highest media covered story in less than a year from the same complex, but it's not whatsoever the full view. Nia Terrace Apartments has continued to allow criminal activity on their property that has enmeshed so deeply and involved so many families in units residing there, it would take police being on the property continuosly.

That's supposed to be the job of one plainclothes officer my wife and I spotted and identified by him interacting with management of Nia Terrace in July 2006, who was never seen to be either of us on the property whatsoever until after we had moved in December that year.

Those that know me know I pay attention to my surroundings.

It's called bullshit, ladies and gentlemen. As long as Nia Terrace is able to continue to receive payments from both indivual renters, non profit agencies trying to get people out of the shelters, they won't do anything unless it hits them financially.

The hell of it all? Jacksonville's former Sheriff; Nat Glover; is the father of a local resident living nearby who has a history of illegal gun activity per media releases.

He's dealing with a heavy bond right now on charges of furnishing a firearm to a minor without parental permission, but police are clamming up if he's directly involved with the death of the child or not. He's also the step-father of one child seen with the victim before his death.

WTFeva.

So how can this complex that takes so many lives be changed into a safe place?

It can't. Community Connections has been dealing with caring for children with drug usage in the immediate vicinity. THAT's how acceptable what happens at Nia Terrace is.

Until you get 300 pound gorillas with guns and badges walking it's parking lots, you won't get rid of it's crime, no matter how small, that breeds ultimately in human life taken.

Screw rights. The place needs an enema.