Moments after the first shots rang out, a teenager dashed out of the house party and ran into the street, firing a shotgun from his hip as the shooter’s car sped away.
Five people were injured in that shootout at 2412 E. 13th St. on the last day of November in 2014.
Three days later, city code inspectors paid a visit to the home. The house was dangerous and unfit for habitation, they declared, saying it violated general cleanliness standards and failed to meet minimum electrical and heating requirements.
The house was condemned; the woman who said she lived there was evicted until the landlord made repairs.
It’s a process the police tout as classic community policing – a way to solve a problem and rid a neighborhood of a troublesome house or tenant without necessarily slapping someone in cuffs.