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JOHN? WELL, AFTER HOURS OF RESEARCH, GUY FOUND KILLINGS, CLUSTERS OF KILLINGS, SCATTERED ALL OVER BIRMINGHAM IN 2024. BUSH HILLS, COLLEGE HILLS AND THE EAST LAKE COMMUNITY HAVE BEEN HIT HARD. THEN THERE’S THE INGLENOOK NEIGHBORHOOD HERE. NINE PEOPLE LIKE YOU MENTIONED HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES LEAVING THIS NEIGHBORHOOD’S LONGTIME PRESIDENT IN SHOCK. THIS IS YOUR FIRST BEAT. MY FIRST BEAT WAS INGLENOOK. GWEN WEBB HAS LIVED IN INGLENOOK FOR HALF A CENTURY. NOT ONLY WAS IT HER ASSIGNED POLICE BEAT IN THE MID 1970S, SHE HAS SERVED AS ITS NEIGHBORHOOD PRESIDENT EVER SINCE. INGLENOOK HAS ALWAYS BEEN A GREAT PLACE TO. ESTABLISH A HOME BECAUSE IT WAS ALWAYS SO WARM. IT WASN’T ABOUT THE COLOR, IT WAS ABOUT THE LOVE. BUT LAST WEEK, TWO MEN WERE FOUND MURDERED ON 41ST PLACE NORTH, ONLY BLOCKS FROM THE INGLENOOK LIBRARY. THEIR DEATHS JUST ADDING TO A TRAGIC YEAR FOR THE NORTHEAST BIRMINGHAM COMMUNITY. THREE. FOUR. FIVE. SIX. SEVEN. AND THEN DOUBLE HOMICIDE MAKES NINE. ARE YOU SURPRISED TO SEE THAT MANY IN YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD? I RIELLY KNOW, BUT WEBB’S NEIGHBORHOOD IS NOT ALONE. WE PLOTTED EACH OF BIRMINGHAM’S 2024 MURDERS ON THIS MAP. WE FOUND ABOUT A DOZEN KILLINGS NEAR EAST LAKE, TEN WITHIN BLOCKS OF LEGION FIELD, AND SEVEN MORE ALONG THIRD AVENUE WEST. WEBB FEELS LIKE SHE AND HER NEIGHBORS ARE BEING INVADED. THEY DON’T LIVE HERE. THEY BRING THEIR CRIME HERE, THEIR CRIMINAL ACTIVITIES HERE. BUT SHE PLANS TO WORK HARD WITH THE CITY TO RESTORE HER NEIGHBORHOOD’S PEACEFUL REPUTATION. INGLENOOK IS A NICE RETIREMENT PLACE. IT ALWAYS HAS BEEN. AND WE’RE GOING TO GET IT BACK. THAT WAY. WELL, DESPITE ALL OF THE MURDERS COMMITTED IN THE GENERAL EAST LAKE COMMUNITY, THE HEART OF THE EAST LAKE NEIGHBORHOOD IS INSULATED BY THE SAFE STREETS INITIATIVE BARRIERS. SO FAR HAVE BEEN SPARED. LIVE IN BI