POLL: Has the Stars & Stripes Shooting Changed Your Opinion on the Event's Safety?

A shooting following the 2012 Stars & Stripes Festival fireworks Friday in Mount Clemens has some Patch readers vowing never to return to the event, while others say the event is still safe.

Despite Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham's assurance that "it's still safe to come downtown" following Friday's shooting at the Stars & Stripes Festival, some Macomb Patch readers say they're not so sure. As thousands of people left the annual fireworks display around 10:35 p.m. Friday, an 18-year-old Warren man shot a 19-year-old Detroit man in the leg on Market Street, Wickersham said Saturday. The fight is believed to have started over a pair of Cartier sunglasses. "There was a confrontation between two males," Wickersham said. "The suspect took the (sun)glasses off the head of the victim." When the victim went to get his Cartier sunglasses back, the suspect "pulls out a gun and shoots him in the leg," he said. The suspect then …

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Frank Cusumano

2:20 pm on Saturday, July 7, 2012

This reminds me of the shooting at the Detroit Fireworks in late June 2004, near the FIST on Jefferson Avenue. Remember? A shooter shot into the crowd, killing one (about a month later) and wounding six. The Detroit Police arrested the Darren (spelled Daron in other reports) T. Caldwell and charged him with murder and attempted murder. http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2004-06-24-detroit-…   more ›