Residents of Toledo’s Old West End neighborhood reeled after two separate incidents involving shootings and kidnappings, one of them fatal, along with a spate of burglaries at homes throughout the historic district.
It was 1996, and the community struggled to come to grips with what was happening. Residents had already formed a task force to address the 35 daytime burglaries that included more than $30,000 in jewelry stolen from one home and $20,000 in silver from a mansion, according to Blade reporting at the time.
“People tend to prey on us because they feel we have something that they don’t,” one longtime resident said…