Colton was wandering around the streets of Black Bottom, Detroit, minding his own. Whispers of shootings happening in The Loop, Chicago, Colton shook his head and trucked on with his day. Attempting to aid Chicago in finding this anonymous shooter, Colton asked close friends and associates if they have seen or heard anything. Just as he does, he hears gunshots, in his home town.

Running for cover, he notices his boss had been shot at. Colton notices a man dressed in black and runs after him, putting his life on the line. As he turns the corner, Colton losses the guy in to the night. Throwing his gun off a brick wall in frusteration, Colton begins shaking. Notifying his family and Godfather of Downtown, Detroit, he is pissed that he was so close, yet so far from catching the culprit.

Colton begins sending out flyers requesting for a witness to come forward with what they have seen. The shooting that occurred in Chicago hit him hard but not as hard as the most recent shot on his own boss. Colton can't help but make a statement.

"Good Morning All, I come to you a broken man. Broken because I was so close to catching the culprit but lost him into the dark night. Now, I ask your help. I ask for anyone with any information to come forward with it. There has been to many shots taken that have NOT been accounted for. Mostly in The Loop, CH, but it seems to have spread to Black Bottom, DT. The only way we can catch this anonymous shooter is with YOUR Help. Lets band together and stop this nonsence before this guy gets a lucky shot in and drops someone of significance. No one cares, until it happens to them. Or it happens close to home. I ask that you care for your fellow cities, and help before it hits home.

This can be resolved. We CAN find this person or people. We need to work together, instead of saying 'Meh, its not my city why should I bother'. If anyone has any information on any shooting of prominent people in our community, please bring it forward as soon as you see anything."

Colton hangs his head and keeps on the lookout for the shooter or shooters.

We'll find them Colton, one way or another. And I should add for anyone else interested there is a sizeable reward for information leading to the capture and detention of the killers. For those "go getter" bounty hunters out there - no green names though, alas. 

Beason smiles and nods to Colton before going off to meet with a contact who might have some information regarding the shootings. 

No one cares, until it happens to them.

Whilst I honestly appreciate your reasons for bringing this out to the wider public in the search for much needed information, I can't help but address this comment. It quite frankly isn't true, at all. New York has offered as much help as possible in this situation, I'm not aware of what Philly and Detroit are doing, but I highly doubt they are sitting on their hands whilst this happens, especially given you're from Detroit.

So really we much ask ourselves.. how is it possible? How can this person(s) evade so many? There are people from all 4 corners of our world on the lookout for the perp and still no news has reached us of their identity. Are they simply lucky, or very skilled?

I know that I would love to catch them and find out the answer to that question, we can only hope for some sort of mistake to be made that will be their undoing.

This seems to be saying to them that if they switch to shooting at people not "of consequence" then things will work out fine.

I think you have to be quite fair to these happy go lucky lads, so you do. I know it's an absolute pain in the arse when you hear a gunshot miss you by about three feet, spin round and no fucker is stood there. But they have a pretty good ability at what they do, don't they?

I mean, as far as I know (which isn't very far), they have been at this quite some time and people are yet to see their face. Impressive. Also impressive that they have managed to keep it out of the coffeeshops. Usually people struggle to hide how good their skills are when they are this good so kudos.

Perhaps it shows, as a community, we are not quite as secure as we thought we were and that a step up in our channels of information need a kick up the jacksie?

Alabama, I can vouch for Detroit, We are very much actively searching. We have been since they started in Chicago, and have since taken a shot at SammyGravano, you know.. Godfather of Black Bottom, DT.

I am not pointing fingers, I am not saying NY DOESN'T CARE! PH DOESN'T CARE! Blah Blah. I am simply saying, someone has had to see something by now. They simply don't care and discard everything they witnessed. They don't bring it to light, they don't bring it to their higher ups. I am saying single people don't really care unless it hits close to home.

We appreciate everything NY, PH, CH have done for us here in Detroit in helping find these stealthy shooters.

Every few days witness requests pass over my desk as much as witness statements.  I see Ca's from other districts or families shooting made members who care not for the danger to add a +1, people known to be under 4 hours of work shot for an attempt at a kill even if it doesn't gain anything and sponsored sometimes testing their defences.

The tragedy is for everything that happens in a city how no one can see something when i know personally how many witnesses i catch when sleeping off a drink in a back alley, for all the risks families take for them it is sad sometimes people who hold these statements don't give back.  Families have a great working relationship and i understand some don't like that and blame stagnancy etc, but there are better ways to change things initially internally for a crew, then externally as the crew applies what they learn.

Very nicely put BackToShootPeeps. Your words are what I was exactly thinking. I don't understand with the amount of Witness statements passing my desk and handed into me by my members that no one can or has seen anything regarding these pot shots taken against prominent mafiosi in this community.

It's getting rather sad...

Anyone with a good sense of probability should be really, really profound by this. My bloodline has been around for ages and I can tell you for a fact that my ancestors never witnessed this before. Of course there were similar occurrences of this nature conducted throughout our history, however, not to this degree. During this present time, it's one thing for someone to stealth BGs for a long period of time but those individuals get caught most of the time - if not, all the time.

What we're witnessing here is extremely unlikely. I refuse to believe it's a matter of people not caring or someone not rightfully sending up a witness statement. Also, I'm reluctant to believe it's some underground orchestrating this down to a T - there's a system we live by that makes it too random for this. Unless I'm completely wrong and this assumption of an underground is waaaaaaay bigger than I thought. For all these shots to go stealth and no witnesses to be found, I dunno, I just feel like something uncanny is going on. I hope I'm not the only one who feels this way.

I fear we need a super sleuth in to sort this person out, the irony that we as people who perpetrate crime need the help of investigators to sort out the issues is not lost on my good self.

Let us take the shot on Godfather Gravano, there are maybe 215 people who could take that shot I believe without triggering something alerting a CL regarding this. Could it be that we have a rogue CL out here who is working to hide these shots?

To be honest I think this is all being done to begin some kind of conflict. Regardless of how it's happening it's most likely the case. 

To be completely honest the remarks they are looking for are just these:

Could it be that we have a rogue CL out here who is working to hide these shots?

I find it extremely nutty that someone would risk a CL account by doing this. Not to mention, people talk. If a CL did want to pull this off, do you really think his/her members would keep quiet without the Coffee Shop chatter? 

Regardless of what the reason it is occurring, nothing drastic has occurred. No one has fallen from the famous one percent chance, and if they do we'll for sure find out the culprit. 

Bouncing from city to city? If their agenda was personal for a one percent chance it wouldn't occur in multiple cities. It would continue on the one they would want to fall. So basically, it's to begin Chaos. 

We as a community need not to allow that to simply happen. If they are enjoying it then let em. Like people have said, eventually people get caught. Lets be patient, either it will quit or they will be found. 

No one cares, until it happens to them

 I'm sorry to pick up on a statement that another esteemed friend has already mentioned...

A nod towards Don Worley

...but I can't help but feeling this is the most important part of this speech.

We live in a world in which things are decided on the smallest of margins. When you look back across the momentous events which shook and shaped the community in which we do business there is a discernible butterfly effect, almost. The most innocent comments and innocuous remarks can be twisted out of context by the shrewd; and innocently misinterpreted by the naive.

To a degree, this is one of the reasons why I have stepped out the limelight in recent weeks; I fear that in my position the most forgettable comments can be criminally misrepresented and it's something that I feel, frankly, isn't worth the risk!

Now, I know you well Colton and, furthermore, my bloodline has known yours for years. Your honesty and integrity is beyond reproach - but that is because I know you! Let me put myself into the shoes of a stranger. A number of shootings go unsolved, as is public knowledge, and a Don's RHM only steps to the streets with an opinion, a plea, and a claim that "No one cares, until it happens to them" once his own district has been targeted.

Were I stranger, what would my reaction to this be? Well, I couldn't possibly comment but the simple matter of fact is that when one pulls the slanty suit, and indeed the bold suit, things change. Innocuous comments, whether in the streets or the coffeeshops, will be scrutinised much more than the comments of the average joe as we've seen numerous times in the past. It's something I always keep in mind, such are the pitfalls of misunderstanding and misinterpretation.

Cantona,

In all due respect, I don't appreciate you disrespecting my blood line. My bloodline has nothing to do with this matter at hand so why you bring it into the matter is beyond me. I am not my father, I am not my grandfather, I am me. Have issues with me? Approach me in private, not in a public forum.

Also, If you're inferring that I didn't care until SammyGravano was shot, then you're blind. I have been actively attempting to help since the days where Cpt-Harris was getting shot at several times a day. I....

Yanno what? My mother said, if you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all. That's where I will leave it...

Hello Don Colton. Inspiring plea, by the way. Brought me near to tears that you were soooo close to finding out who this mystery shooter is. I am sure if any of the people who DO hide the witness statements come across this, they will leave changed men/women.

However, the reason I am commenting here is your most recent reply. I have yet to see any disrespect from Don Cantona toward you... of course, we are different people and different people have different perceptions of disrespect. Maybe you find your honesty and integrity being beyond reproach to be disrespectful, I may never know. 

Anyway, Cantona has said that he thinks you're an exemplary mobster from a line of other exemplary mobsters(how I interpreted it,btw)... I just fail to see the disrespect here. Help a lowly Capo out and illustrate to me exactly what you find disrespectful? 

Alex,

I understand now as someone pulled me aside to explain the meaning of what Cantona was saying. I misunderstood.

TO Cantona:

I apologize for jumping down your throat as I wasn't 100% sure what you were trying to say with saying "Beyond Reproach". As I said, someone pulled me aside in private and explained your meaning and I agree it wasn't disrespectful.

I guess these Stealthers have gotten the best of me and got me on the edge.

I hope you accept.

Rhakios listens, then steps forward to give his input.

"NiNe, you aren't the only one who believes that, as I do also.The probability of it all, is pretty much slim to none considering the number of times it's happening. I would like to think that it was skill, but it's not. If anything, it's extremely good luck on their part and extremely horrible on ours. Skill? I mean, really, how much skill can you put into something like that besides what everyone already knows? The fact alone that the people being shot at, and have not witnessed it themselves, is very improbable as one of them should have seen something at one time or another.

I'm not questioning their honesty, but it does make me raise an eyebrow to some degree on how this is being pulled off. However, they do seem to have things down to doing them the way they want, maybe that is something that is playing into their favor. It just baffles me that the odds of everything going correct for an extended period of time, aren't likely. Like NiNe said, there is a system and a good one. I don't think this has anything to do with people not caring."