The Apple Store on Knox
The Dallas Police Department’s Special Investigations Unit is investigating an attempted robbery early this morning at The Apple Store on Knox street, at the edge of the gayborhood, that left one man dead.
According to an email from DPD Public Information Officer Warren Mitchell, witnesses said a man wearing body armor and armed with an assault rifle entered through the rear door of the business about 2:30 a.m. today (Tuesday, Oct. 8) intending to rob the store but was met there by a security officer who is a retired DPD officer.
The security officer and other witnesses told investigators that the suspect tried unsuccessfully to disarm the security officer, who then drew his weapon and “fired multiple times, striking the suspect.” The suspect tried to run away but collapsed in the alley behind the store. Responding officers “administered aid to the suspect prior to his transport to an area hospital where he was pronounced deceased.”
Warren said that the Special Investigations Unit is handling the case because the incident involves a security officer.
— Tammye Nash
Gayborhood? You mean Highland Park
This isn’t a Gayborhood! You are just trying to stir up trouble!
Tammye Nash-
Sounds like you need to learn your
Neighborhoods………
Jay. I know my neighborhoods, thanks. The gayborhood is not the same as Oak Lawn or Uptown. Gayborhood includes Oak Lawn, Uptown, the Fitzhugh/Central area, and yes, Knox-Henderson.
I’m sorry, but no. Just because there are gays shopping there and the Crate&Barrel and Z Gallery stores across the street does not make it the “gayborhood.” There’s a chunk of Highland Oatk right at the edge of this.
*Highland Park*
Raul, I disagree. Just because there’s “a chunk of Highland Park” that abuts the Knox-Henderson area, that doesn’t mean it isn’t part of the gayborhood. Highland Park, in fact, abuts a large section of the gayborhood, including in Oak Lawn. In fact, the gayborhood can, and probably does, extend in Highland Park in some areas.
Tammye – you are so wrong. I moved to Dallas almost 30 years ago.
Knox-Henderson area is NOT the Gayborhood. If I had to draw a technical geographical map ….
75 Lemmon to Inwood to Wycliff to Oaklawn.
Danna: I lived in Dallas in the early 1980s before moving away. I moved back in 1988. In the early 1980s, there were a number of LGBT bars in and around the Knox/Henderson/Fitzhugh area, not to mention a number of restaurants and shops. In the late 80s and early 90s, there was a bar just across Central from where the Apple store is called Desert Moon. Just a few blocks away, there were — and are — LGBT bars on Fitzhugh. The Dallas Voice offices were on Travis at Fitzhugh until just a few years ago when we moved to Oak Lawn. The apartment/condo/townhomes in that area have always been home to a large number of LGBT people, and again, the shops and restaurants have been and are very popular with and welcoming to our community. So to me, that counts as gayborhood.
Looking at the map, I can’t really picture the geographic map you described, but saying Wycliff to Oak Lawn leaves out a large swatch of gayborhood between Wycliff and Inwood that encompasses Cathedral of Hope and Resource Center and all of the very LGBT residential area between those two roads. Perhaps the Lemmon/75 to Inwood parameters include those areas? But I wasn’t sure if you meant the stretch of Lemmon from Central to Inwood?
Anyway, to me, and to others I know, the gayborhood did and still does include the Knox-Henderson and surrounding areas.
I realize this isn’t an argument you’re going to give up on, Tammye, but if your parameters are any in-town area where gays have lived/worked/played since the 80s, then you’re going to have to continue expanding the gayborhood into Downtown, Deep Elum, Greenville Ave., Preston Center, the M streets, South Lamar, and on and on. Good luck. ?
Good the robber got killed save us tax payers..good job
Gayborhood? Wtf? Lol!