Sunday, July 30, 2006

Drug Dealers and Gangbangers have Reunion in NOLA

This article from the TP site says it all.

I'll excerpt the important parts.

Weekend killings stain the city

Six men found dead in three shootings
Sunday, July 30, 2006
By Gwen Filosa

New Orleans police spent Saturday searching for two killers who gunned down four people the night before on a dead-end street in a gritty corner of Treme. It was the second high body-count homicide within six weeks in a city with just half its pre-Hurricane Katrina population.

Two other unrelated killings, one early Saturday in Gentilly and the other Saturday night just off St. Charles Avenue, brought the city's 24-hour homicide total to six and the total for the year to 78. ....

Police described one suspect as a 5-foot-5 male with shoulder-length dreadlocks, dressed in a white T-shirt and light blue jean shorts. The other was described as a male in a white T-shirt, light blue jean shorts and a red baseball cap. Both were last spotted running north on St. Ann Street. ...

The coroner's office released this description of the Gentilly victim: He was between 30 and 40 years old, 5-feet-10 and 180 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes and a light beard. His right eye socket was sunken and his upper front teeth missing. On his right arm was a tattoo of a dancing unicorn, and he had had surgery on his right side to repair a hernia. He wore black jeans and a white shirt. Anyone with information on his identity is asked to call the coroner's office at 658-9660.....

As you read the article there is no mention of race of any of the victims or suspects. There's even an unidentified victim and they give his description except for race. Why? Doesn't TP want to help find the suspects.


One thing is certain the thugs are returning. Will this deter the good folks from coming back? That's a question that has yet to be answered. I don't know if I would bring my family back.

1 Comments:

Blogger Dangle 24-7 said...

I fear that many will ask the same question. Why go back?

It will be interesting to see where New Orleans will stack up in "per capita" murders with other cities.

I guess I need to do a post on that.

Glad you enjoyed Art & Music Sunday.

10:23 AM  

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