There was another shooting yesterday morning; we have stories about it here and here.

I was lying on our living room floor, watching AMC's "Sunday Morning Shootout," when the firing started. Unable to tell where it was coming from, I clambered to the window, counting the pops -- 15-- and looked out. I saw nothing, but called 9-1-1 anyway, then went outside and followed the gathering crowd to the 7200 block of Idlewild. The occupants of the Buick Regal had already fled, so there was really nothing to see except the wrecked vehicles. Still, the scene drew quite a few visitors during the next couple of hours, especially because the 11:25 shooting happened between two churches, both of which had Sunday morning services going that let out around 1 p.m.

I give the police credit for response time on this one; it seemed to me that they got there pretty quickly. But there was a tension in some of the interactions between officers and citizens. I don't know how to describe it, but a couple of officers seemed just a little impatient with the citizens -- some of whom, in return, didn't like the way they were being spoken to.

A boy of perhaps 13 or 14 wore a T-shirt that gave a sign of the community relations challenge facing the police department: a black T-shirt emblazoned with a rip-off of the Warner Brothers 'WB' logo, and the text, "If you see da police -- Warn a Brother."

Media people were there by 1 p.m. So was Minister Jasiri X, the 33-year-old leader of Muhammad Mosque No. 22 in Wilkinsburg, with some of his members. He noted the irony of the fact that some of his congregants, along with local church members and others, had just walked the streets the day before in a show of unity and a call for peace.

"Every child is ours; that's the spirit we've got to have," he said. "The first thing we have to let these young people know is that we love you -- a lot of them don't think anybody cares. ... We've really got to walk up to them and establish a relationship with them ... they'll never be empowered if we don't approach them."

I don't know how to do that, but maybe if I get in with some of these folks walking the community, I'll learn.