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The following is a press release from Terry Hastings of the LRPD regarding the shooting incident at Kavanaugh and Ridgeway on October 23:
On October 23, 2011, Officers responded to a shooting just occurred at Kanis and Michael Drive. Upon arrival, Officers made contact with Jeffery Campbell who advised that three black males robbed him and shot him before fleeing the area. Campbell was shot in the leg and arm and was transported by MEMS to Baptist Hospital for his injuries. Campbell was admitted to the hospital due to his injuries.
On October 24, 2011, Detectives learned that Campbell had actually been shot at Ridgeway and Kavanaugh after a burglary. Property from the burglary was located and recovered from the woods on Darr Road in western Pulaski County. Mr. Campbell’s blue Dodge Durango was also located at #1 Parr Drive. The vehicle had several apparent bullet strikes on the driver’s side. Mr. Campbell’s vehicle was towed to the Crime Scene bay.
On October 25, 2011, Detectives made contact with Campbell at Baptist Hospital, where he was advised he was untruthful about the robbery and stating that a white male he knows shot him at Kavanaugh and Ridgeway.
On October 31, 2011, Campbell contacted Detectives and advised that he had been released from the hospital and wanted to turn himself in. Campbell was transported to the Detective Division and charged with one count Filing a False Police Report. Campbell was transported to the Pulaski County Jail.
October 19, 2011
Last night I attended the board meeting of the Arkansas School for the Blind and Deaf, where the issue of the disposition of the old Easter Seal building was discussed in depth. The following is my understanding/opinion of the matter:
In 1957 the State of Arkansas leased 9.3 acres of undeveloped land at the dead-end of Lee street in Hillcrest to Easter Seals upon which they built their building. The land abuts the back of the Deaf School and Knoop Park. The term of the lease was for 50 years and the rent was $1 per year. The lease was renewed in 2007 for another 50 years for the same rent.
Present at the board meeting were about ten people from the neighborhood along with people from Easter Seals and a number of people from the man who wishes to acquire the property, along with the board of directors of the Deaf School.
We learned that Easter Seals has accepted an offer from Hillcrest resident John Chandler to assume the remaining 46 year lease for a one-time payment of $240,000 to Easter Seals and $1 per year to the State of Arkansas. The deal, however, is contingent upon the Deaf School releasing Chandler from requiring him to provide rehabilitation services to the deaf and blind which, of course, is the whole reason the state gave Easter Seals such great lease terms in the first place. It is my understanding that Mr. Chandler’s planned use of the building is as a warehouse/trans-shipping facility.
The building in question has a serious asbestos abatement issue looming over it which complicates the evaluation of the property. The Easter Seals representative claimed that it had tried to sell its interest in the property in 2003 but had difficulty doing so.
Mr. Chandler was represented at the board meeting by a throng of attorneys and real estate agents but he himself could not be present as he was purportedly in China dealing with his business partners.
The land is not subject to planning restriction as it is sovereign state land. It was claimed by some board members that if the deal goes through there will be no stopping any further expansion or development on the site. A concerned neighbor (and retired Arkansas Supreme Court justice) David Newbern spoke against the proposed deal as did other neighbors, some of whom seemed very upset by the matter.
Girl at Fountain
Traveling by wagon is best.
Throngs of humans filled the street, with each Hillcrester behaving like beatific creatures.
These men do so enjoy HarvestFest.
Flu shots, what every party needs.
Man on right looked very disgruntled
I never could figure out what they were laughing at.
[Above] This man is believed to be involved with almost every cult in Arkansas.
Pointing fingers
Texting fury briefly interrupted
Kids on grass
Ghost child
Chinaman
Boy ambushing girl
Rare appearance by long-lost weather man
This is a list of burglaries which occurred in Hillcrest since September 1. It doesn’t include surrounding neighborhoods like Capitol View or Stifft Station.
901 N Oak (October 11)
510 N Martin
4403 Kenyon
4517 N Lookout
2905 Ozark
3417 Kavanaugh
3815 Lee
916 Midland
517 N Taylor
416 N Pierce
1100 N Tyler
120 N Taylor
And a house on Fairfax Terrace.
Usually the burglars have been entering these houses by having a small child crawl through a doggy-door or similar small opening, they then open a door for the rest of the burglars.
This information came from Carol Jenkins and Terry Hastings.
Hillcrest Honey is a neighborhood hobby farm in the middle of Hillcrest operated by Linda and Brent Walker. Their project started as an effort to improve the genetic quality of local bees. — At substantial expense, they buy breeding stock (queens) from professional breeders and develop colonies from them. The harvesting of honey was not initially a consideration, but by request they eventually began doing so and selling the honey. They use the proceeds to buy more queens and the rest is donated to non-profits. This year the funds will be split between Dunbar Gardens and U of A Foundation (David Bourne Scholarship).
I present here my three new videos about Hililcrest Honey each with images from the same events, but each with different edits and three very different styles ranging from Utopianism to Horror. — I don’t know why I did this, I couldn’t help myself.
For HD versions go here.
Video Version 1: “Sesame Street with Cursing” (5 minutes)
Video Version 2: “Horror and Dread” (2 minutes)
Video Version 3: “Sweetness and Light” (1 minute)
The creature that is called the Hillcrest Pug Strangler has announced his plans to marry Fox16’s Donna Terrell this Fall.
“I want it to be a complete surprise to her, which it should be since she doesn’t know who I am yet”, claimed The Strangler, “But that will all change on our wedding day”
The fiend claims to have turned his life around since the days of attempting to murder every small dog from Pulaski Heights to Capitol View: “I got my old job back at Stephens Inc and I’m no longer compelled to hurt the helpless and the week. I’m back in the money game now.”
The Pug Strangler claims to have worked as an investment executive at Stephen Inc until he suffered a psychological breakdown during the market collapse of 2008. It was then when his urges to kill became uncontrollable. Forced from his home on Edgehill Road by court order, he then took shelter in some lady’s garden on Woodlawn Street (near Walnut), where he slept in a hole in the ground under some loose boards. It was during the heat of the afternoons that his cravings to kill grew strongest. He would scuttle from his hole and creep leeringly through Hillcrest hunting for pugs in his black leather gloves, plumb-smuggler shorts and Foghat T-shirt.
“I still listen to Foghat. And I always wear the short-shorts. News-girls love that stuff. I even bought a Ford F-350 just to seal the deal.”
A partially butchered rabbit was thrown over a fence and into a Hillcrest couple’s lawn around 4:30 Thursday morning. Their house sits in the Cedar Hill area behind the Rockefeller compound.
The rabbit’s head and front paws had been sawn off and it was covered in some unknown white powder. The attached photos show the rabbit along with the powder after it was shaken out and scraped into piles. The powder is believed to be harmless but it’s easy to speculate that its purpose was to induce fear, as any anthrax hoax would.
The couple discovered the rabbit almost immediately after being alerted by their dog’s barking. As one of them described the dead rabbit: “It looks like it was surgically dismembered…the dog had not gnawed on it.” Coincidentally, bicycle tracks were found in their front lawn (in the dew). They claimed that few bicyclists are ever seen on their street.
A formal police report was made.
The couple are well-known in the area and there has been speculation (by others) that this incident may be some kind of threat springing from a public online brawl which took place days ago regarding the West Memphis Three. One of them responded to this theory by saying: “I really just think it’s one of those weird things that sometimes happens. Of course all kind of things go through your mind”
Perhaps unrelated, the following report was sent in today by a reader:
“I came across a songbird carcass on the bike trail of Allsopp Park about a week ago. Methodically mutilated with a knife and I thought ritual was likely. There were also scattered mounds of yellowish powder on the trails, with an “X” shape at the trail-head. No idea what it could be. This was near the Beechwood mountain bike access.”
EDIT: I just got word that a similarly mutilated cat was found a week ago in the Allsopp Park south ravine.
If you have further clues, send them to me. Maybe we can unravel this mystery.
The shooting apparently stemmed from an argument between two men at a youth football game. The game was being played at the Arkansas School for the Deaf’s football field, but the game was not associated with the school itself. One man followed the other to his car parked near the Blind School, where the shooting occurred.
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Five minutes of condensed audio from this morning’s incident at Hanger Hill. (Tuesday, August 23)
(A few years ago, I almost bought the lot where this happened, but I decided against it.)
