University Place is becoming more ghetto-like as apartments and lower cost rents allow the influx of riff-raff. With this will come deterioration of neighborhoods and an increase in crime.

 TODAY IN GARY, INDIANA – A 26-year-old convenience store clerk was shot and killed in broad daylight in Gary, Ind., and police say witnesses stood by and did nothing. CBS 2′s  Pamela Jones reports there are critical clues that may help crack the case.

Police say one of the four men caught on surveillance video bursting into the clerk’s booth at the convenience store was about to commit murder. The video shows a man in red run up an aisle and kick in the door to the booth. Within seconds, the clerk, Gurjeet Singh, was shot in the neck.

“It was senseless. And really all homicides are senseless but what we gather from this, there was very little resistance,” said Gary Police Department Commander Anthony Titus. “It didn’t have to end the way it did.”

But Titus says what’s even more senseless is the apparent inaction of bystanders standing near the front door almost the whole time.

Police say there were several customers walking around the store after the crime. But only one called 911 for help.

When asked what he finds most disturbing about the surveillance footage, Titus said, “The fact that people went in and out of the store and didn’t call police. There is a man laying there. Nobody thinks to dial 911 or check to see if he’s OK or anything.”

TODAY IN UNIVERSITY PLACE, WASHINGTON – Look around. The city council and police department need to keep tabs on what types of businesses are allowed in the city and what crime comes along with it. Question this? Take a walking trip up to 56th and Orchard at 3:30 in the afternoon on a weekday. Hang out with the people there. Comfortable?

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