After Asheville experienced four shooting incidents in less than a week in late July, Mayor Esther Manheimer and Police Chief Mike Lamb issued a joint statement urging residents to cooperate with police to help prevent retaliation and solve the crimes more quickly.
“Addressing [gun violence] requires more than the dedication of our police department; it requires the active collaboration of city leaders, community members and organizations working together to find solutions,” Manheimer and Lamb said in the statement.
To that end, the Asheville Police Department (APD) is investigating the shootings with help from its multiagency Gun Violence Task Force, which focuses on identifying and prosecuting repeat violent gun offenders, the statement said…