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Highland Neighborhood Walmart

Posted on 5/2/21 at 2:40 pm
Posted by Aforem7
Baton Rouge
Member since Apr 2019
878 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 2:40 pm
Anyone know whats going down at the neighborhood Walmart on Highland? Parking lot taped off and cops and EMS everywhere. Assuming somebody got shot
Posted by Glock17
Member since Oct 2007
22409 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 2:41 pm to
Just saw that PD responding to a shooting

LINK
This post was edited on 5/2/21 at 2:42 pm
Posted by Jax Teller
Member since Aug 2018
3934 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 2:42 pm to
LINK

Shooting
Posted by The Boat
Member since Oct 2008
164342 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 2:44 pm to
With all those new cheaply built apartments down burbank and the already ghetto apartments there on highland that area is going to be one gigantic ghetto one day soon

Looks like it's starting
Posted by jimbeam
University of LSU
Member since Oct 2011
75703 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 2:49 pm to
The ones next door with the fricking banana yellow doors are a cesspool
Posted by GumbOrgeron
Member since Feb 2018
1426 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 2:55 pm to
It’s sad that this isn’t anything out of the ordinary or a somewhat big deal. We live in the middle of a warzone
Posted by TigerGrad2011
Member since Aug 2016
1578 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 3:07 pm to
One of my first memories of LSU happened at those apartments next door in the late 90s. Seemed to be a lot of sorority girls living there back then, and I’m sure that percentage has shrunk to almost non existent if any.
Posted by LSUMaverick
Baton Rouge
Member since Jul 2016
1721 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 3:12 pm to
Just another day in BR
Posted by Kattail
Member since Aug 2020
3344 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 3:14 pm to
Dang, I could have been there
Posted by tigergirl10
Member since Jul 2019
10323 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 3:35 pm to
Such a shame. Used to fill my adderall there.
Posted by Breauxsif
Member since May 2012
22290 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 3:57 pm to
Someone was shot to death at the Hub last year and a shooting occurred there in 2019, as well as an arson; and list goes on and on
Posted by TheFritz
Member since Oct 2017
300 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 4:03 pm to
The other Neighborhood Wal-Mart off Coursey and Sherwood has the same weird vibe. I guess access to overly cheap goods turns people into Apes.
Target is only a slight upgrade. Rather than feeling like I'm gonna need to gun battle someone, I feel like I'm gonna need to fist fight someone.
Posted by Breauxsif
Member since May 2012
22290 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 4:32 pm to
To think someone would be dumb enough to shoot someone in that parking lot on a busy Sunday afternoon is mind blowing, with all the witnesses around and I’m sure the houses on Highland overlooking the Walmart have cameras.
Posted by Pelican fan99
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Jun 2013
34825 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 4:33 pm to
That place has always been dump

I remember once I watched a black dude walk in with a back pack on and load it up from the booze isle then walk out to those shitty apartments next door. Probably why they started locking up most of the booze
Posted by andwesway
Zachary, LA
Member since Jun 2016
1523 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 5:22 pm to
Dang. That was the good Walmart back when I lived in Kenilworth about six years ago. WTF happened?
Posted by oldskule
Down South
Member since Mar 2016
15476 posts
Posted on 5/2/21 at 6:16 pm to
Good ole Baton Rouge!!!

Shoot em up....
Posted by street pizza
3 Highview Crescent, Coolaroo
Member since Dec 2010
1503 posts
Posted on 5/3/21 at 12:39 am to
This is my neighborhood. I've lived here my whole life. My family got in cheap in the late 60s. This area, Highland and Lee, is not going down any time soon. As long as BR is the capital and LSU has students everything here will stay fine.

This is the OT, so obligatory "I'm sorry you're poor and have to live in a suburb straight out of A Wrinkle in Time."

All the new apartments on Burbank give me great pause. If things continue like they are, a lot of higher education will be virtual.
Those apartments will be the next skid row. However, we have the creek there, also we are on "high" land. We know the neighborhood for Webb Park is backed into streets literally called Plum Baroque. There is a clear line of demarcation.

Nothing, and I mean nothing, will lower the value of Highland Road. Other than LSU going broke.

That neighborhood Walmart is a stone's throw. I asked my slightly-twitchy fiance if he thought I was in danger after today. No.

I probably waved to Sean Vincent Gillis a few times.

A good grocery store between LSU and downtown is what we need. There used to be one at the north gates on Highland. It's time for a neighborhood Walmart for that area.

For now, my very middle middle class arse will continue to feel very safe in this area.
This post was edited on 5/3/21 at 12:43 am
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