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[edit] 2007 Murders
[edit] 01/01/07 – 1 murder
1) Today, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of an unidentified, African American male. The offense occurred around 7:54 p.m., in the 2300 block of Fourth Street.
According to investigators, Sixth District officers responded to a call of a “male down†and, upon their arrival, found the victim lying on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body. Emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene and pronounced the victim dead.
Incident in 2300 block of Fourth Street - City press release.
[edit] 01/03/07 – 3 murders, 1 body found from 2006 murder
2) Incident In The 2900 Block Of Saint Ann Street This evening, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of an unidentified African-American male. The offense occurred at approximately 3:29 p.m.
According to investigators, First District officers responded to a call of a “male shot†and, upon their arrival, found the victim lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to the head. Emergency medical technicians were summoned to the scene, where he was pronounced dead.
Incident In The 2900 Block Of Saint Ann Street - City press release.
(Last Murder of 2006 - #162) This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the death of an unidentified Caucasian female, whose body was discovered in the 6400 block of Roder Street.
According to investigators, at approximately 11:46 a.m., a local resident was in the area checking on his property when he discovered the body. The female was lying in the grass and had been covered with a rug. The resident immediately notified the NOPD.
An emergency medical technician arrived and pronounced the victim dead on the scene. The body was transported to the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office where an autopsy will be conducted to determine the exact cause of death. The coroner will also assist with the identification process.
Unclassified Death - City press release.
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Woman found dead identified From staff reports
A woman who was found beaten to death in the Lower 9th Ward last week has been identified as Cheryl Nitzky, 23, of Florida, the Orleans Parish coroner’s office said.
A neighborhood resident who was checking on his property Jan. 3 around 11:45 a.m. found Nitzky’s body under a rug in the 6400 block of Roder Street, just north of North Claiborne Avenue, and just west of Jackson Barracks
Fingerprints led to the identity, said chief coroner’s investigator John Gagliano.
The coroner’s office estimated Nitzky was killed late Dec. 30 or early Dec. 31 and dumped where she was found.
Woman found dead identified - Times-Picayune.
3) Incident at Industry and Press Streets This evening, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of an unidentified African-American male. The victim’s body was discovered at approximately 3:44 p.m., by Louisiana National Guardsmen patrolling the area.
According to investigators, Fifth District officers responded to a call of a “male down†and, upon their arrival, found the victim lying in a remote grassy area with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Emergency medical technicians were summoned to the scene, where he was pronounced dead.
Incident at Industry and Press Streets - City press release.
4) The New Orleans Police Department is investigating the murder of 19-year old Randall Thomas of New Orleans. The offense occurred at approximately 6:54 p.m., in the 2500 block of LaSalle Street.
According to investigators, Sixth District officers responded to a call of a “man shot†and, upon their arrival, found the Thomas lying in the street suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene and pronounced him dead.
While on the scene, detectives learned that Thomas was walking down LaSalle, towards Second Street, when he was approached by an unknown gunman, from behind.
Incident in the 2500 Block of LaSalle Street - City press release.
[edit] 01/04/07 – 2 murders
5) Incident at 2119 Josephine Street This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the murder of an unidentified African-American male. The offense occurred shortly before 12:30 a.m., in the alley-way at 2119 Josephine Street.
According to investigators, Sixth District officers responded to “shots fired†in the area. Due to their close proximity of the gunshots and the belief that the perpetrator(s) may still be in the area, the officers immediately secured a perimeter. A search was conducted and the victim was discovered lying in the alley-way suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Investigators also located a handgun near the victim. Emergency medical technicians arrived and pronounced the victim dead on the scene.
K-9 and S.W.A.T. officers continued their search of the area for a possible perpetrator(s), but met with negative results.
Incident at 2119 Josephine Street - City press release.
6) Incident at 2444 North Rampart Street This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the murder of a local 36-year-old Caucasian female and the shooting of a local 35-year-old, Caucasian male. The offense occurred shortly after 5:30 a.m., at 2444 North Rampart Street.
According to investigators, Fifth District officers responded to a shooting that possibly involved three victims. Upon arrival, the officers discovered the male kneeling at the front door holding a two-year-old male toddler in his arms. The male had sustained gunshot wounds to his right hand, right cheek and left forearm. The toddler was not injured. The female was lying on the floor, near the door, suffering from a gunshot wound to the neck.
Emergency medical technicians arrived and pronounced the female dead on the scene. The male and the toddler were transported to Elmwood / Charity Trauma Center where the male underwent surgery for his wounds. He is in good condition. The toddler was examined thoroughly and sustained no injuries. He is in excellent condition.
Incident at 2444 North Rampart Street - City press release.
[edit] 01/05/07 – 1 murder
7) Incident at 7437 Pitt Street This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of an unidentified, African American female. The victim was found shortly after 7:20a.m., inside a home at 7437 Pitt Street.
According to investigators, Second District officers responded to a call of a “residential burglaryâ€. As the officers were enroute to the location, they were notified via dispatch of a possible “female down†at the location. When the officers arrived, they found the victim inside of the residence, lying on the bed, with an apparent gunshot wound to the head. Emergency medical personnel arrived and pronounced her dead.
[edit] 01/08/07 – 1 murder
8) Incident at 2530 Dublin Street This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the murder of a local 40-year-old African-American male. The victim’s name is being withheld pending notification of family members. The offense occurred shortly before 12:30 a.m., at 2530 Dublin Street.
According to investigators, Second District officers initially responded to “shots fired†in the area, but then received additional information regarding a subject shot at the location. Upon arrival, officers discovered the victim lying on the floor within the front room of the residence. The victim had sustained multiple gunshot wounds to the head and torso.
Emergency medical technicians arrived and pronounced the victim dead on the scene.
[edit] 01/12/07 – 2 shot, not dead
Two men shot in Central City Saturday, January 13, 2007
from staff reports
Two men were shot at separate locations Friday night in Central City, New Orleans police said. Neither had life-threatening wounds.
At about 6 p.m., a 26-year-old man was shot several times in the 1800 block of Washington Avenue, near Baronne Street, Garry Flot, a police public information officer, said. The victim was taken to a hospital.
Sometime before 8 p.m., another man arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound to his buttocks.
Flot said that man could tell police only that he was shot somewhere around Danneel and Philip streets. Flot said the man gave conflicting statements. It was not immediately known if the shootings were related, Flot said.
http://www.nola.com/neworleans/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1168672249293640.xml&coll=1
[edit] 01/13/07 – 2 murders
9) Man killed in N.O. during money argument New Orleans police are investigating the shooting death of a 22-year-old man in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood Saturday morning during an argument with his uncle over money.
Police believe the uncle shot the man, but have not yet filed criminal charges. They didn’t not identify the dead man or the uncle, and family members at the scene declined to talk to a reporter.
The shooting incident occurred about 6:15 a.m., and officers responding to a report of a man shot found the victim inside a home at 2228 Royal St. with a gunshot wound to his body, according to Garry Flot, a public affairs officer for the New Orleans Police Department. Emergency medical technicians pronounced the man dead at the scene.
The District Attorney’s Office will be consulted about the shooting.
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Incident at 2228 Royal Street This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the domestic shooting death of a local, 22-year-old Caucasian male. The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of family members. The incident occurred at approximately 6:15 a.m.
According to investigators, Fifth District officers responded to a call of a “male shot†inside of a home. When officers arrived, they found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the body. Emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene and pronounced him dead.
Investigators learned that the victim was involved in an altercation with his 61-year-old uncle, when he was shot, which stemmed from an on-going feud over money.
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Man shot in Marigny home Police say victim fought with his uncle Sunday, January 14, 2007 From staff reports New Orleans police are investigating the shooting death of a 22-year-old man Saturday morning in Faubourg Marigny. Jeffery Santos was killed during a fight with his uncle about 6:15 a.m. inside a home at 2228 Royal St., police said. Emergency medical technicians pronounced Santos dead at the scene. Police said the victim and his 61-year-old uncle, who was not identified, had been feuding over money and they believe the uncle shot him.
The uncle was in the house when police arrived in response to a report of a shooting. Officers took a statement from him and released him. Police have not filed criminal charges, saying the district attorney's office will be consulted.
Other family members at the scene declined to talk to a reporter.
Jerry Pittman, who lives around the corner on Marigny Street, said he couldn't recall another shooting in the immediate area in recent years. He said the neighborhood is a quiet one, where neighbors tend to know each other by sight if not by name.
Santos died of a gunshot wound to the chest, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released the identity. He said Santos was staying at the house, but he did not know whether he was living there permanently. Santos has relatives in Metairie.
The shooting came two days after thousands of residents marched on City Hall, demanding an end to gun violence in New Orleans. Marchers were galvanized in part by the murder Jan. 4 of filmmaker Helen Hill, killed in her home at North Rampart and Spain streets, several blocks from where Santos was shot. Hill's assailant remains at large.
Pittman said police have been cruising the neighborhood more frequently since Thursday's march but that officers mostly stay in their squad cars.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-19/116876048170470.xml&coll=1
10) 9th Ward slaying shocks family By Bob Ussery Staff writer Marguerite Doyle Johnston is sure her son was killed by someone who knew him. Chivas Doyle of New Orleans was shot to death in the 9th Ward on Saturday, two days after his 24th birthday. Doyle would help anyone, Johnston said Sunday, but would not let anyone he didn’t know into his FEMA mobile home in the 2500 block of Desire Street. Doyle had many friends who were aspiring rap artists, his mother said. He did not perform music, but helped his friends by promoting their music and letting them record in the makeshift studio he had set up in his home. Doyle died Saturday in the FEMA home of a gunshot wound to the head, said the chief coroner’s investigator John Gagliano, who, along with police, released his identity Sunday. Coroner Frank Minyard classified Doyle’s death as homicide Sunday after an autopsy showed the wound was not self-inflicted. Johnston estimated her son was shot sometime between 7 and 11 p.m. He had driven his cousin to work about 6:35 p.m. and then returned home. Three cousins, including one who lived with Doyle, found him dead in his residence about 11 p.m. The cousin who lived with Doyle went to Johnston’s nearby home and pounded on her door. Johnston went to her son’s trailer and found him in a chair in front of his computer, where he had been composing an e-mail to another cousin. “I kept calling, ‘Tank, Tank,’ †Johnston said. Family members called him ‘Tank’ because he was 7 feet tall. “I grabbed him, and he just tilted over to his right,†she said. There was something resembling a hole in the back of his head. “I kept telling him, ‘Wake up, wake up.’ †When Johnston managed to turn over son over, she saw that his lips were blue. “Then I knew my baby was dead,†she said. It was one day after her 49th birthday. She believes her son was shot in the back of the head. Johnston said their family cannot understand why anyone would want to kill her son. She said people had nothing but good to say about Doyle. He followed in her footsteps as a community activist. “If you saw me, you saw him,†she said. After Katrina, Johnston and her son returned to New Orleans. But about the time Doyle was being discharged from a hospital where he was being treated for diabetes in December 2005, their house on Mimosa Court in Algiers burned down, she said. They drove to her daughter’s house in Texas, but returned to New Orleans in 2006. Doyle allowed his rapper friends to stay in one of the houses they lived in. “We had 20 to 30 people in our house,†his mother said. “He was the type of person who would give you the shirt off his back. That’s why we don’t understand why,†Johnston said. She said her son, who graduated from John McDonogh High School and attended Delgado Community College, did not take or sell drugs, and did not even smoke cigarettes. He did not get into arguments, she said. Doyle was always trying to make people laugh, and sometimes played practical jokes “just to make people smile.†That was why some of his friends thought reports of his death Sunday were a joke, she said. “All his friends on his MySpace page can’t believe it,†she said. “It’s not a joke. He’s dead.†The Web page for “9thwardwordman†is now filled with messages of loss and hurt from friends. Detective Donald Clogher, (504) 658-5300, is investigating.
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Incident at 2526 Desire Street New Orleans, LA - Members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of 23-year-old Chivas Doyle, a local African-American male. The incident occurred yesterday at approximately 11:56 p.m.
According to investigators, Fifth District officers responded to a call of a “male shot†inside of a FEMA trailer. When officers arrived, they found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. Emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene and pronounced him dead.
The body was transported to the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office, where an autopsy was performed. The incident was determined to be a homicide.
[edit] 01/14/07 – 1 murder
11) Autopsy reveals victim strangled Coroner IDs teen slain in separate case Wednesday, January 17, 2007 By Bob Ussery A man found dead Sunday morning at Annunciation and Austerlitz streets was strangled, an autopsy has revealed. There were no obvious injuries when Christopher Ruth's body was found Sunday morning, the coroner's office said, but the autopsy showed that Ruth, 31, had been strangled, prompting coroner Frank Minyard to classify the death as New Orleans' 11th slaying of the year. Bruises that became visible after the autopsy suggested the killing occurred after a fight, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said Tuesday. He said Ruth was strangled with hands. Ruth, of New Orleans, was found about 6:15 a.m., said Garry Flot, a public information officer for New Orleans police. He said city Emergency Medical Services workers tried unsuccessfully to revive Ruth. Ruth died in the 3900 block of Annunciation, between Gen. Taylor and Constantinople streets, partly in the roadway and partly on the grass, Gagliano said.
Autopsy reveals victim strangled - Times-Picayune.
[edit] 01/17/07 – 1 murder
12) New Orleans Police said they were investigating the city’s latest murder which took place Wednesday morning in the Seventh Ward.
It happened in the 2000 block of Allen Street, according to police. Officers found the victim, a 32-year-old Tyrone Andrew Johnson, lying in the street shortly after 7 a.m. with multiple gun shot wounds to the body. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
The victim's cousin, Edward Ballet, said he heard gunshots between 3 a.m. and 4 a.m., but did not see anything until he went to bring his kids to school later that morning.
"(The police) can't stop it. They can't stop it. They would have to have a police officer almost on every corner to stop this violence," Ballet said. "It's really up to the people. And we can't do nothing to stop it because people are scared to come forward on a lot of things, and this is the result."
Tyrone Johnson's family believes the shooting stemmed from an armed robbery. His mother, Elvira, said violence in New Orleans would not stop any time soon.
"They are going to be satisfied when all of them is dead; all of them. All them, all the young men just like Tyrone is dead and gone. That's when they're going to be satisfied; that's only thing thats going to turn it around," she said.
Police said they have not determined a motive for the killing, the 11th murder thus far in Orleans Parish this year.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl011707khmdr.4b9badb3.html
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Incident In The 2000 Block Of Allen Street New Orleans, LA -This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of a 32-year old, local African-American male. The offense occurred at approximately 7:07 a.m.
According to investigators, First District officers responded to a call of a “male shot†and, upon their arrival, found the victim lying on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to the body. Emergency medical technicians were summoned to the scene, where he was pronounced dead.
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A 32-year-old man was fatally shot Wednesday morning on the sidewalk outside a 7th Ward home. The man was found with shotgun wounds by police shortly after 7 a.m. in the 2000 block of Allen Street, police said. It was the 12th slaying in the city this year. Coroner's Office Chief Investigator John Gagliano identified the victim as Tyrone Andrew Johnson. Neighbors and a relative said he was a father of four. Johnson's cousin, Edward Ballet, who lives across the street from the scene of the shooting, said he went outside Wednesday morning and saw his cousin on the sidewalk. "I called 911," said Ballet, 40. "The police responded fast, but he was already dead." Ballet said he thought the shooting took place about 4 a.m., around the time he heard gunshots. "I looked outside, but I didn't see anything," Ballet said. "I went back to bed." Johnson had lived in the neighborhood before and frequently visited several relatives in the area, Ballet said. He had grown up about a block away from the shooting, near the corner of O'Reilly and Galvez streets. Johnson cast an imposing figure -- he stood about 6 feet tall and rarely skipped meals -- and had a trademark grin, Ballet said. Johnson was gunned down in front of a teal Ford pickup truck parked on a patch of grass outside a house with a busted window and several broken shingles. The truck's front fender was speckled with blood and nearby rain puddles were tinted red. Ballet said he does not know why anyone would shoot his cousin. "It doesn't make any sense," he said. Further details of the shooting were not released by police. Late last month, a 24-year-old man was fatally shot nearby, in the 2200 block of Allen Street. Dwayne Mixon suffered gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene on Dec. 23.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1169105424202260.xml&coll=1
[edit] 01/20/07 – 2 murders, 3 shot
13) New Orleans police logged at least the 14th killing of 2007 on Saturday.
The unidentified black man's body was found in a vacant apartment near the French Quarter Saturday morning, one bullet wound in his head, after someone reported a medical emergency, Officer Sabrina Richardson said.
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Man found murdered in Iberville complex A New Orleans man was found dead, apparently from a single gunshot wound, inside a vacant apartment in the Iberville public housing development Saturday morning, the New Orleans Police Department reported. First District officers responded to call for medical assistance around 9:40 a.m. and emergency medical technicians found the man at 1324 Bienville St. He was declared dead at the scene, said department spokeswoman Sabrina Richardson. His identity and details about the gun wound weren’t released. Police officers found narcotics at the scene but couldn’t say if they were connected to the murder, Richardson said. Authorities had no witnesses or suspects, she said.
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Richardson said Holmes had a single gunshot wound to his head, but chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released Holmes' identity, said he apparently was shot more than once. An autopsy is scheduled for today.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1169362977109640.xml&coll=1
14) The second slaying occurred about 4 p.m., Richardson said. Police received a call about a "male down" and found a man with a gunshot wound of the head dead inside 431 S. Genois St., which is half of a one-story double at the corner of Baudin Street.
Police said the residence was vacant, but two neighbors said people were living there.
There were lights on in the house, but the electricity seemed to come from an extension cord connected to a temporary electrical panel on a wooden post outside the house.
Police at the scene said the building's inside walls had been opened up after it was flooded by Hurricane Katrina. The neighborhood received about 6 feet of water.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1169362977109640.xml&coll=1
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3 Shot
Elsewhere, a man was shot and seriously wounded about 5:45 p.m. in Algiers. Richardson said police responded to a call about a shooting and found the victim wounded in the head in a vehicle at Berkley and Bacchus drives. He was in critical condition at a hospital, she said. About 7 p.m., a man was shot near North Claiborne and Elysian Fields avenues. He went to Tulane University Hospital either on his own or with help from a private citizen. Richardson said he was in stable condition. About 7:50 p.m., a man was shot in the 2100 block of Gov. Nicholls Street. He also was in stable condition at a hospital.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1169362977109640.xml&coll=1&thispage=2
[edit] 01/26/07 – 2 murders
15) Orleans Parish Coroner Frank Minyard on Saturday classified as murder the death of an unidentified man whose burned body was found early Friday in the 9th Ward. Authorities are still trying to learn the man's identity. Minyard's ruling came after an autopsy Saturday showed the man had been shot twice, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. The victim was found after firefighters put out a fire in a GMC Yukon in the 3000 block of North Villere Street near Feliciana Street. His gender and age were unknown when his charred body was found on the vehicle's rear floorboard. But the autopsy showed the victim was a man about 25 to 35 years old, 5 feet, 6 inches tall and 130 pounds, and with three or four gold teeth, Gagliano said. Members of the Louisiana National Guard discovered the burning SUV two blocks east of the Press Street railroad tracks Friday about 1:30 a.m. Nearby residents said the vehicle was not there before Thursday at 6 p.m. The fire was started after the man died, Gagliano said.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1169968341175150.xml&coll=1
16) A Marrero man was found fatally shot on a Mid-City street Friday evening, New Orleans police and the Orleans Parish coroner's office said.
The 26-year-old man's name was withheld while attempts were made to notify his relatives.
Shortly after 7 p.m., New Orleans police were called to the 400 block of South Lopez Street. Officers found the man lying in the street with two apparent gunshot wounds, one to the head, and the other to the upper torso, said Sgt. Joseph Narcisse, a public information officer for New Orleans police.
He was pronounced dead at the scene, between Baudin and Banks streets, by medical technicians of the city's Emergency Medical Services.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1169882750214980.xml&coll=1
[edit] 01/31/07 – 1 murder
17) January 31, 2007 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Incident In The 1900 Block Of Delachaise Street New Orleans, LA -This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of an unidentified African-American male. The offense occurred at approximately 2:18 a.m.
According to investigators, Second District officers responded to a call of “shots fired†and, upon their arrival, found the victim lying on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to the body. Emergency medical technicians were summoned to the scene, where he was pronounced dead.
[edit] 02/03/07 – 2 murders (one a baby)
18) New Orleans police are investigating the shooting death of a 28-year-old man at his Central City home Saturday morning. Sixth District officers, flagged down about a man shot, found Daniel Allen just after 9 a.m. lying on the floor of his home at 1914 Jackson Ave., with a gunshot wound to the head, said officer Garry Flot, spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department. He was pronounced dead at the scene. There was no sign of forced entry at the home and police had no suspects, Flot said.
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Someone flagged down police Saturday morning and led them to a man who had been shot dead in his Central City home, making him at least the 18th murder victim of the year in Orleans Parish. Police found the body of Daniel Allen, 28, on the floor of his home in the 1900 block of Jackson Avenue shortly after 9 a.m., said Garry Flot, a police spokesman. Allen, who had a gunshot wound to the head, was pronounced dead at the scene, which is between Oretha Castle Haley Boulevard and Danneel Street. Flot said police consider the case a homicide. An autopsy will be performed today.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-19/1170598387228390.xml&coll=1
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Incident at 1914 Jackson Avenue New Orleans, LA - This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of 28-year-old Daniel Allen, a local African-American male. The incident occurred inside of his home, 1914 Jackson Avenue, at approximately 9:07 a.m.
According to investigators, Sixth District officers were flagged down about a “male shot†inside of a home. When the officers entered the home, they found the victim lying on the floor with a gunshot wound to the head. He was pronounced dead on the scene.
19) Suspect Arrested for Murder New Orleans, LA - Today, the New Orleans Police Department announced the arrest of 21-year-old George Lewis, a local male, and booked him with 2nd degree murder of his girlfriend’s two year-old daughter. The offense occurred yesterday at approximately 4:00 p.m,. in the 1400 block of South Lawn Street.
According to investigators, Fourth District officers received a call of a child with trauma to the body that died at Oschner Hospital.
The Orleans Parish Coroners autopsy revealed the child suffered internal and external trauma to the body as the cause of death. Detective Raymond Ambose, conducted an investigation and arrested George Lewis and booked him with 2nd degree murder.
[edit] 02/04/07 1 murder, 1 shot
20) Two New Orleans residents were shot, one fatally, in a sport utility vehicle parked beside a large oak tree in front of a 7th Ward home Sunday minutes before sunrise.
Tamara Gabriel, 27, of Algiers, died later Sunday. She and a 22-year-old man were shot multiple times in the 2700 block of George "Nick" Connor Drive, formerly Havana Street, police spokesman Garry Flot said. The man drove the Porsche Cayenne to a hospital and "collapsed at the entrance to the hospital's emergency room," Flot said.
The man was reported in stable condition. Gabriel died Sunday at 4 p.m. at Touro Infirmary, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released the identity. He said she had a gunshot wound to the head.
A neighbor, Philomenia Johnson, said her 10-year-old daughter was so frightened by the sound of gunfire just outside their home that the girl was unable to move.
"We had to pick her up," said Johnson, who has been living with her family in a trailer next to her home. The family intends to repair the home once it receives money from the Road Home program for homeowners with property damage from Hurricane Katrina.
Investigators were attempting to determine the motive for the shooting, Flot said.
Johnson, who said she called police at 5:26 a.m. to report hearing five or six shots, noted that people, sometimes after leaving a nearby bar, will park in the relatively secluded spot. Johnson said neither she nor a friend saw anything outside other than police sealing off the area with yellow tape.
By the time most people were headed to church, the only sign of what had occurred was a small pile of shattered window glass in the street.
Johnson said her neighborhood, which is populated mostly by older residents, enjoys peace and quiet much of the time. When trouble does come, she said, it arrives like it did Sunday morning.
"They bring it here," she said.
[edit] 02/06/07 – 1 murder
21) A fistfight between two 17-year-old boys led one of the teen to kill the other one with a gun his mother gave him, police said Tuesday. According to Sgt. Joe Narcisse, an NOPD spokesman, the shooting took place shortly after 7 p.m. near the intersection of Clio and Simon Bolivar streets, in Central City. The victim, a 17-year-old New Orleans boy, got into a fistfight with Clarence Johnson earlier in the evening, with both individuals walking away after the conflict. Narcisse said Johnson went home and gave details of the fight to his mom, 44-year-old Vanessa Johnson. She gave her son a handgun and told him to get revenge because he had apparently lost the fight. Johnson took the handgun, located the victim a short time later and fired several shots, striking him once in the stomach, Narcisse said. The victim was rushed to Elmwood Medical Center, where he later died. Police said Vanessa Johnson was arrested early Wednesday morning and booked with principal to second-degree murder. Her son remains at large.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl020807khteenfightmdr.61db2dbc.html
[edit] 02/11/07 – 1 murder
22) Incident at 3420 Indiana Street New Orleans, LA - Members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of Michael Dunbar a 43-year-old local male. The incident occurred at 3420 Indiana Street in Algiers at approximately 8:43 p.m.
According to investigators, Fourth District officers responded to a call of a “male shot†inside of a home. When officers arrived, they found the victim suffering from a gunshot wound to the body. Emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene and pronounced him dead.
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A man was found shot to death in his Algiers home Sunday night, and New Orleans police are searching for suspects and a motive. Michael Dunbar, 43, was found dead from a single gunshot wound at 3420 Indiana St. shortly before 8:45 p.m., said officer Garry Flot, a spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department. Fourth District officers found Dunbar after receiving a report of a man shot inside the home. He was dead on the scene, medical personnel said.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/westbank/index.ssf?/base/news-3/1171351264298340.xml&coll=1
[edit] 02/15/07 – 2 murders
23) and 24) Two men were shot to death and a third critically wounded shortly inside a park car in the 9th Ward shortly before 6:30 p.m. Thursday, police said.
The names of the two men killed were not known to police. Police were able to interview the wounded man but did not release his name.
Fifth District officers responded to reports of a shooting and found the three men inside a sedan with Texas license plates in the 1000 block of Kentucky Street, near the Industrial Canal in the 9th Ward.
The men in the front passenger seat and the rear seat were dead on the scene. The wounded man was behind the wheel. He was taken to a local hospital, said officer Sabrina Richardson, NOPD public information officer.
She said there was no identifaction on the bodies of the dead men. She did not say whether polcie were able to get any information from the wounded man.
Police sources at the scene, however, said detectives were able to talk to the wounded man and learned that they had been shot from inside the car by a man in the back seat. Further details were sketchy.
Mayor Ray Nagin was at the shooting scene and was seen comforting shaken residents who lived nearby.
Also at the scene were FBI, Drug Enforcement Agency and Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives agents, part of a federal task force helping NOPD with homicide cases.
[edit] 02/16/07 – 1 murder, victim died on 02/17/07
25) Sunday, February 18, 2007 From staff reports One of six people wounded in a shooting rampage in a Mid-City bar early Friday died Saturday, the Orleans Parish coroner's office said. Alden Wright, 20, of New Orleans, died at 11:40 a.m. at the Charity Hospital trauma unit at Elmwood Medical Center, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. Meanwhile, New Orleans police said Saturday they believe a suspect in custody on other charges was involved in the shootings, but they had not filed charges against him in that case. Wright, three other men, and two women were wounded by a man who flashed a handgun at the door of Club Unlimited, forced his way inside and started shooting shortly after 1:30 a.m., police said. The suspect, whose name was not released, was arrested Saturday on unrelated drug charges, said Sgt. Joe Narcisse, a spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department. Officers were interviewing the suspect and think he had a role in the shootings, Narcisse said. "We do believe he does have some involvement in the incident," he said. "We are continuing the investigation while we determine his role." At the time of the shooting, patrons filled the dance floor and lined the bar at the establishment at Banks and South Galvez streets. A bouncer who saw the armed man flagged down nearby 1st District police officers, but the gunman escaped as a crowd of more than 100 fled the bar. The five other shooting victims suffered injuries that aren't believed to be life-threatening.
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[edit] 02/20/07 – 1 murder, 2 shot
26) Around 9 p.m. Tuesday, police responded to shots fired in the 900 block of North Claiborne Avenue, near Dumaine Street, police said. Officers found a man with mutliple gunshot wounds lying on a wooden platform underneath Interstate 10. Investigators also discovered two handguns in the unidentified man’s possession. The victim was transported to a local hospital in critical condition and later died, police said.
[edit] 02/21/07 – 2 murders
27) A 40-year-old New Orleans man was fatally shot early Wednesday in the Gert Town neighborhood, in the third shooting in less than 12 hours.
Several unrelated violent incidents, including a stabbing, marked the end of what had been a relatively low-crime Mardi Gras. Two of the shootings and the stabbing happened late on Fat Tuesday. By Wednesday morning, three people were dead, and two others, were seriously injured, police said.
Most recently, police discovered the 40-year-old man lying on the ground in the 7900 block of Olive Street with multiple gunshot wounds, police said. The man was pronounced dead around 7 a.m., shortly after officers arrived.
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According to Officer Garry Flot, an NOPD spokesman, the incident happened at 7 a.m. in the 7900 block of Olive Street in Girt [sic] Town. Second District officers found the victim, a 40-year-old man, lying in the street with several gun shot wounds to his body. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl022107khfourthshot.1fb3136c.html
28) In broad daylight Wednesday afternoon, a 33-year-old man was fatally shot in an eastern New Orleans street, behind a row of one-story brick houses. The man, whose identity has not been released, was shot at 1 p.m. in the 14000 block of Morrison Road, police said. Officers found the man in the street, shot several times. The man fell in the middle of the two-lane street that runs along a canal, between a murky brown puddle and the yellow dotted line. Judy Alexander said she heard a ruckus while sitting down to watch her favorite television show, "Judge Joe Brown." The noise came from the street behind her gutted house in the 14000 block of Partridge Lane. "I thought they were car doors slamming," she said. "Then I heard two gunshots." Alexander rushed to the rear of her home and looked out a partially boarded-up window. She saw the victim lying near a chain link fence beside the road. Alexander and several other neighbors, living in trailers outside their gutted homes, said their still-on-the-mend neighborhood had been relatively free of violence.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1172128133293740.xml&coll=1
[edit] 02/25/07 – 1 murder
29) Man, 23, shot to death in eastern N.O. From staff reports
A man was shot to death Sunday night in eastern New Orleans, New Orleans police said.
Someone called police at 8:28 p.m. and said a man had been shot in the 14700 block of Curran Road, Garry Flot, a police public information officer, said.
He said police arrived and found a 23-year-old New Orleans man lying in he middle of roadway on Curran near Bass Street. The man apparently had multiple gunshot wounds.
The victim was pronounced dead at the scene, several blocks southwest of Paris Road and Lake Pontchartrain.
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New Orleans authorities have released the identity of a man who was shot to death Sunday night in eastern New Orleans. Lionel Ware III, 23, of New Orleans, was shot about 8:25 p.m. in the 14700 block of Curran Road, near Bass Street. Ware died in the middle of the roadway several blocks southwest of Paris Road and Lake Pontchartrain, said Garry Flot, a police public information officer. An autopsy showed Ware suffered multiple gunshot wounds, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/base/news-6/117255792563720.xml&coll=1
[edit] 02/27/07 – 1 murder, victim died on 03/25/07
30) February shooting victim dies; Sunday shooting near Fair Grounds A New Orleans shooting victim died Sunday, nearly a month after he suffered mltiple wounds in the Hollygrove neighborhood, the Orleans Parish coroner’s office said. Aaron Allen, 43, was shot on Feb. 27 about 7:30 a.m. at Hollygrove and Oleander streets, chief coroner’s investigator John Gagliano said. An autopsy will be performed today. Meanwhile, New Orleans police are investigating a shooting that left a man and a baby wounded early Sunday in Gentilly. The man was walking near North Gayoso Street and Gentilly Boulevard near the Fair Grounds Racetrack about 12:20 a.m. when another man approached with some kind of assault rifle, Sabrina Richardson, a police public information officer, said. She said the gunman opened fire, wounding the man in the right side. A stray bullet grazed a 1-year-old boy, who was some distance away with adults who were out enjoying the nice weather, Richardson said. The man, who appeared to be in his 20s, and the baby, who was possibly grazed on the left thigh, were taken to a local hospital, where the man underwent surgery. Richardson said they were in stable condition
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Another local man died Sunday from multiple gunshot wounds he had sustained on Feb. 27, the Orleans Parish coroner's office said. Aaron Allen, 43, was shot on Feb. 27 about 7:30 a.m. at Hollygrove and Oleander streets in the Hollygrove neighborhood, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. Autopsy results were not yet available.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/117488700723720.xml&coll=1
[edit] 03/02/07 – 1 murder, died 03/17/07
31) In an unrelated case, a man shot on March 2 near Canal Street and North Claiborne Avenue died Saturday at University Hospital, Gagliano said. Josh Rodrique was found in the 2000 block of Iberville Street, near North Prieur street, on March 2 shortly before 7 p.m., police said. He had been shot once in the neck, police and the coroner's office said. There has been no arrest in the shooting.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1174368286291810.xml&coll=1
[edit] 03/03/07 – 1 murder
32) Tonight, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of a local male, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of family members. The offense occurred shortly before 11:00 p.m., in the 1100 block of North Prieur Street.
According to investigators, First District officers responded to a call of “ shots fired†and, upon their arrival, found the victim lying in the street suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body. Emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene and pronounced the victim dead.
[edit] 03/04/07 – 2 murders
33) A lover's spat turned deadly early Sunday in the Lower Garden District when a 43-year-old woman fatally plunged a kitchen knife into her boyfriend's chest, police said. Yolanda Anderson stabbed her live-in boyfriend shortly after 12:30 a.m. in the 1800 block of Chippewa Street, police said. Byron Love, 46, was pronounced dead upon arrival at University Hospital, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner's office. He died from a stab wound to the chest. Officers responding to a call of an injured man found Love inside the home, said officer Sabrina Richardson, New Orleans police spokeswoman. Anderson and Love had been arguing, police said, and Anderson went downstairs into the kitchen and grabbed a knife. She allegedly returned upstairs and stabbed him. Anderson, who according to court records has no criminal record, was arrested at the scene without incident, police said. She was charged with manslaughter. The couple's apartment, half of a two-story tan building near Chippewa and Felicity streets, was quiet Sunday afternoon and showed no signs of the early-morning incident. Several neighbors said the couple kept to themselves.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1173076137244320.xml&coll=1
34) A man was shot and killed Sunday night in Central City, New Orleans police said.
The shooting happened about 9:05 p.m. in the 1400 block of Magnolia Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Thalia Street, in the area of the Guste public housing complex.
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[edit] 03/05/07 – 1 murder
35) A security guard at a FEMA trailer park was shot to death Monday in the latest violence to wrack the city still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina, police said. The shooting, around 5:15 a.m., was at a trailer park in Gentilly, a section of the city that flooded during Katrina. A few hours earlier, another man was shot and killed near the Guste public housing complex. The latest violence brought the number of homicides in the city to at least 32 this year. Last year, New Orleans counted 161. Police spokeswoman Sabrina Richardson said the security guard was shot in the face in a security booth at a gate leading into the site. She said two other security guards were on duty at the time, but one was at the park's back gate and another was in a bathroom. The other guards told investigators they did not hear the shot, Richardson said. There had not been any major crime problems at the trailer site before Monday's shooting. "It's always been safe. I've never at any time felt in harm's way," resident Kenny Randle said. "That doesn't change. All things happen for a reason. But this, man, this was just senseless." Steven Nicholas, a chief in the police department, said the guard was about 50 years old. A motive for the shooting had not been established, although he said "robbery does not appear to be a motive." Police shut down the exits to the trailer park and went door to door asking residents about the incident. The Federal Emergency Management Agency had personnel on the scene Monday morning, but did not immediately have any details about the incident.
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/nation/4602734.html
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This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of a local male, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of family members. The offense occurred shortly after 5:00 a.m., at 2901 Elysian Fields Avenue. According to investigators, Fifth District officers responded to a call of a “ male down†and, upon their arrival, found the victim inside the guard shack suffering from a single gunshot wound to his face. Emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene and pronounced the victim dead.
[edit] 03/09/07 – 1 murder
36) A 25-year-old man identified by relatives as Kevin Pham was shot dead inside his family's house in the 1300 block of N. Lemans Street. Police responded the the shooting in the Village D'lest neighborhood in eastern New Orleans shortly before 10 a.m. Wednesday. The victim died at the scene. His car was in the driveway, still running, with hazard lights on. Several relatives who lived nearby in the Vietnamese enclave said Pham had been a cook at a local vietnamese restaurant for about six years, and he and his family had lived in the neighborhood longer. He was studying at Delgado Community College to become a nurse, they said.
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A 25-year-old man was fatally shot in the head in eastern New Orleans Friday morning, police said. And in an unrelated incident hours earlier, two men were wounded by gunfire while walking down a Lower Garden District street. Shortly before 10 a.m., emergency medical workers attended to a man found shot inside his home in the 13600 block of North Lemans Street in the Village de l'Est neighborhood, New Orleans Police Department spokesman Garry Flot said. Officers responding to the scene discovered that the 25-year-old man had been killed inside his home. Grieving relatives and neighbors outside the house identified the victim as Kevin Pham. Several neighbors milled about the crime scene Friday, mourning Pham, a cook at a Vietnamese restaurant who aspired to be a nurse. Pham was shot inside the house while his red sports car idled outside, its hazard lights blinking. The car's hood was propped open as police investigators and federal agents questioned neighbors. Pham's family said he had lived in the one-story brick house for about six months. The family has owned the home for more than six years, and Pham was trying to renovate it after Hurricane Katrina. Since the flood, he had lived off and on with his sister at a house several doors away. His sister, Tam Pham, said he had worked for the past six years at Pho-Bang Restaurant in the 14300 block of Chef Menteur Highway, while he studied nursing at Delgado Community College. Police said the house was not ransacked and the shooting did not appear to be part of a robbery.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-20/117359788826600.xml&coll=1
[edit] 03/10/07 – 3 murders, 3 shot
37) A 22-year-old woman was shot to death in Treme early Saturday and her 25-year-old friend wounded in the ankle, according to New Orleans police. The double shooting took place just after 5 a.m. at the intersection of Gov. Nicholls and North Roman streets while the couple was walking, said New Orleans Police Department spokesman Sgt. Joe Narcisse. The unidentified woman suffered two gunshot wounds to the upper torso and died a short time later at Tulane Medical Center. The 25-year-old man with the ankle wound, who police said was an acquaintance of the victim, was also treated at the hospital, police said.
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Saturday's first shooting victim was identified by the coroner's office as Keyana Price, 21, killed by several gunshot wounds as she walked near the corner of Gov. Nicholls Street and North Roman streets at 5 a.m. with a 25-year-old acquaintance, who was wounded in the ankle.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-7/117359835326600.xml&coll=1
38) Around 11 a.m., police received word of a shooting in the 7800 block of Venice Blvd, Narcisse said. Seventh District Officers found the victim lying in the street with gunshot wounds to his head and arm. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl031007khshootings.3a81cfa2.html
39) The latest murder occurred in Mid-City, near the intersection of Esplanade Avenue and Columbus Street, shortly after 2 p.m., according to Joe Narcisse, an NOPD spokesman. A 23-year-old man was killed at that location. Police found shell casings covering a two block area and an AK-47. Witnesses told investigators that a red Dodge Magnum pulled alongside a silver Dodge Durango and opened fire. However, the driver of the Magnum lost control and crashed into a parked vehicle. Three suspects got out of the Magnum, one of them wielding the AK-47 that was later found at the scene. The driver of the Durango had been shot several times, Narcisse said. The victim made it to the intersection of Esplanade and N. Broad avenues before crashing his vehicle. He and a female passenger were transported to a local hospital. The driver died shortly after; police said the woman was unharmed. Narcisse said both vehicles had Texas plates. Authorities hope this will help them learn more about those involved.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl031007khshootings.3a81cfa2.html
[edit] 03/18/07 – 1 murder
40) A man shot several times Sunday afternoon in a yard in the 9th Ward died about six hours later at a hospital, the Orleans Parish coroner's office said Monday night. Sean Robinson, 31, was shot shortly before 4 p.m. in a yard next to a house in the 1200 block of Piety Street, police said. He was taken to University Hospital in critical condition, and died shortly before 10 p.m., said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the coroner's office. Police have made no arrests and have identified no suspects in the slaying.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1174368286291810.xml&coll=1
[edit] 03/24/07 – 1 murder
41) A New Orleans teenager was killed during a drive-by shooting early Saturday that left three other people wounded, New Orleans police said. Larry Ramee III, 16, died at North Broad Street and Orleans Avenue from gunshot wounds, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. The death brings the city's homicide total for 2007 to at least 40. Police said the victims were traveling uptown on Broad Street just after midnight when their car stopped at a traffic light at the typically busy intersection. A dark-colored vehicle pulled up alongside, and someone opened fire. Emergency medical technicians pronounced Ramee dead at the scene from multiple wounds to the head and body. Two females and another male in the car were injured and are listed in stable condition at a local hospital, where they were listed in stable condition, police said. The victims' car crashed into a pole after the shooting, and the driver of the dark-colored vehicle fled, police said.
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[edit] 03/25/07 – 2 murders, (02/27/07 victim dies)
42) A shooting in the area of St. Bernard and North Claiborne avenues in the 7th Ward Sunday left one person dead, New Orleans police said. The shooting occurred about 6 p.m. in the 1500 block of North Roman Street, between Laharpe and Lapeyrouse streets. It was the 42nd murder of 2007 in the city.
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About an hour earlier at 6 p.m., a 22-year-old male, who was said to be a displaced New Orleanian visiting from Houston, was killed by an unknown gunman in a spray of bullets that also sent another young man to the hospital. Medical responders pronounced the man dead on the scene as he lay on the ground outside a house on North Roman Street near Laharpe Street in the 7th Ward. After the shooting, NOPD investigators -- working with FBI agents who now appear at every major crime scene -- placed 14 bright-green markers over shell casings that littered the ground near a silver Grand Prix, which was parked by the curb with its passenger-side door open. Details on the incident were vague, but the 22-year-old man had been sitting on the passenger side of the car when another male approached and opened fire, Richardson said. The wounded passenger opened the door and ran, but he collapsed a short distance away. Another male, standing nearby, was hit by gunfire and taken to a local hospital, where he underwent surgery. Members of a crowd that gathered in a nearby empty lot didn't have much to say about the victim.
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In the other case, Warren Simpson, 22, who recently returned to New Orleans from Houston, was shot along with a second man Sunday about 6 p.m. in the 1500 block of North Roman Street in the 7th Ward. Simpson was sitting in the passenger side of a car when another man approached and shot Simpson and a man standing nearby. Simpson got out of the car and ran a few steps before dying between Laharpe and Lapeyrouse streets. An autopsy Monday showed Simpson suffered multiple gunshot wounds, Gagliano said. The other man was taken to a hospital. His condition was not available from police.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1174973306295790.xml&coll=1
43) The city's 2007 murder count rose by three on Sunday, the result of two homicides and the death of a man who had suffered multiple gunshot wounds a month ago. The latest New Orleans killing occurred about 7:20 p.m. in Central City. At that time New Orleans police were sent to the 2500 block of Freret Street after someone called about a "male down" in a house. Officers found a man dead with a gunshot wound to the head in a vacant residence at 2510 Freret St. between Second and Third streets, said Sabrina Richardson, a Police Department spokeswoman. The man was not supposed to be in the house, and authorities did not immediately know where he lived, she said. His identity was not immediately known.
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Antoine Williams, 17, of New Orleans was found shot to death Sunday about 7 p.m. in a vacant residence in Central City, New Orleans police said. Police said they were called about a "male down" in a house and found Williams shot in the head at 2510 Freret St. Williams was not supposed to be in the house, which is between Second and Third streets, police said An autopsy Monday showed Williams had been shot more than once, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released the identities.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1174973306295790.xml&coll=1
[edit] 03/26/07 – 1 murder
44) Man dies from Algiers shooting wounds West Bank bureau A New Orleans man shot in the drive-through of an Algiers fastfood business Monday died Tuesday morning from his wounds, New Orleans Police said. Terry Despenza, 23, died at local hospital after receiving several gunshot wounds to the body while he waiting at a McDonalds near the intersection of General DeGaulle and Cypress Acres drives. NOPD spokesman Garry Flot said the victim was apparently sitting in his vehicle when an unidentified suspect approached him and shot him. The victim attempted to exit his vehicle and collapsed in the parking lot. The suspect fled in a late model, light-colored pickup truck. Flot could not confirm early reports that the shooting stemmed from an argument the two men had prior to the shooting. He also could not say whether the suspect fired from a vehicle or approached the suspect on foot.
[edit] 03/27/07 – 1 murder
45) Man found shot to death in eastern New Orleans A 31-year-old New Orleans man was fatally shot late Tuesday night in eastern New Orleans, police said. A National Guard unit on patrol around 11:10 p.m. discovered a red Dodge Charger in a wooded area in the 7800 block of Paris Road, according to a news release from the New Orleans Police Department. Inside the vehicle, the guardsmen found a man slumped over with a gunshot wound to the body, police said. The man, whose identity has not been released, was pronounced dead at the scene.
[edit] 03/28/07 – 1 murder
46) A 32-year-old Algiers man was killed at his home Wednesday afternoon and New Orleans police were questioning a man they believe might have been involved. Travis Johnson, of 1644 Shirley Drive, died at a hospital after being shot once in the face with a handgun shortly before 11:30 a.m. Capt. D.J. Kirsch, commander of the New Orleans Police Department's Fourth District, said that Johnson was the third homicide in Algiers this year. A neighbor who heard gunshots flagged down a nearby traffic cop, telling authorities that someone fled Johnson's house, said Officer Sabrina Richardson, a spokeswoman for the NOPD. Police took away a man from the scene, who family and friends of the victim said was his roommate. Richardson would not release the man's identity. Investigators at the scene said that the shooting may be narcotics related because drug paraphernalia was found in the house. Authorities also searched for a weapon but none was found. Johnson's family and friends said they can't believe drugs were involved in his death because that wasn't his lifestyle. Neighbors described the victim as a quiet guy who kept to himself but always had a polite word. Torey Johnson, the victim's brother, said his brother spent all of his time working on his antique car and producing music in his home studio. The victim worked in an auto body shop and raised pit bull puppies in a kennel behind his home. Torey Johnson said he has no idea who would want his brother dead. "He was just a good dude," Johnson said.
[edit] 03/31/07 – 2 murders
47) A 21-year-old New Orleans man was gunned down overnight in the 6000 block of Chef Menteur Highway, police said. Seventh District officers found the unidentified man riddled with bullets, including one to the head, inside a blue Chevrolet Tahoe, shortly before 3 a.m. The victim was pronounced dead on the scene. Homicide Detective Kevin Burns is in charge of the investigation. Police have no motive or suspects and has not released the man’s name, pending notification of his family. The homicide scene is one mile north of Downman Road in eastern New Orleans, along Chef Menteur.
48) Fourth District officers were called about 7 p.m. to the 1100 block of Horace Street in Algiers, where they found the teenager lying dead on a lawn from gunshot wounds to the body. "We believe the perpetrator chased him from an adjacent street," said Sgt. Joe Narcisse, a police spokesman. "There is some evidence he ran from De Armas Street and died at Horace." The incident probably began in the 3300 block of De Armas Street, Narcisse said, and ended when the victim fell onto the yard at 1115 Horace St.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1175405774140920.xml&coll=1
[edit] 04/01/07 – 1 murder
49) In the third slaying of the weekend, a 20-year-old New Orleans man was fatally shot in a FEMA trailer early Sunday in the 3400 block of Touro Street in Gentilly after what appeared to be a drug deal gone bad, New Orleans police said. Carl Anthony McLendon died of multiple gunshot wounds in the trailer where he apparently lived, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released the identity. New Orleans officers and Louisiana National Guardsmen responded to a report of gunshots from inside a trailer shortly before 4 a.m., police said. McLendon was the only person found in the trailer, police said. Detectives say the shooting may have stemmed from a drug sale. Drugs and cash were found in the trailer, said police spokesman Sgt. Joe Narcisse. Police did not say how much money or what sort of drugs were found in the trailer.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1175493619135360.xml&coll=1
[edit] 04/02/07 – 4 murders
50) The violent beginning to the week started shortly before 4 a.m. in the 7th Ward. Gunshots rang out near The Duck Off nightcub in the 2300 block of A.P. Tureaud Avenue, police said. Terry Brock, 22, of New Orleans was shot several times, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish Coroner. Brock died from his injuries a dozen hours later, around 4 p.m., at University Hospital. Two Levee Board police officers working a security detail at the club saw two men run from the scene and into a black Nissan Maxima, police said. As officers pulled the men from the car, the driver dropped a handgun, police said, which they believe was used in the shooting. Medics trying to treat Brock, who lay on the neutral ground outside the club, found a handgun in his waistband, police said. Police could not say whether the victim had fired the gun.
51) Hours later, in Algiers, police found A 52-year-old man shot to death in his home around 9 a.m. Monday—the fourth shooting in Algiers in three days. By midday Monday, police had a warrant for the alleged shooter, the 17-year-old son of the man’s girlfriend. Officers responded to a home in the 1200 block of Michael Street around 9:10 a.m., police said. Inside, Cleveland Daniels lay bloodied from several gunshot wounds, according to a spokesman for the coroner’s office. Daniels was taken to University Hospital, where he died shortly later. Police said 17-year-old Westley Simmons, the son of Daniels’ girlfriend, shot Daniels following an argument. Daniels wanted Simmons kicked out of the house, police said. At the apex of the argument, Simmons allegedly shot Daniels.
52) The third homicide of the day took place in the middle of the afternoon in the middle of a busy Bywater street. Police discovered the body of a 21-year-old man just after 2:40 p.m. He had been shot several times. Police said the slaying was drug-related. Alexander Williams, 21, of New Orleans, was pronounced dead less than an hour later at University Hospital, said a spokesman for the coroner’s office.
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Today, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of an unidentified male. The offense occurred around 2:43 p.m., in the 1200 block of Louisa Street.
According to investigators, Fifth District officers responded to a call of a “male down†and, upon their arrival, found the victim lying in the street suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his head and body. Emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene and pronounced the victim dead.
53) Within minutes, another call came in— a man down with gunshot wounds in eastern New Orleans.The victim, a 29-year-old man, lay streetside near the corner of Ransom and Dale Streets. Officers responding to a call of gunshots found the man around 3:10 p.m., police said. Terry Hall, of New Orleans, was pronounced dead at the scene, according to a coroner’s spokesman. He died from multiple gunshot wounds, including one to his head. Several investigators rushed straight from fatal crime scene to crime scene. Neighborhood residents milled about and crowded the corner, solemnly watching investigators take notes.
[edit] 04/04/07 – 1 murder
54) Police booked Richard Thompson, 19, on charges of murder, which they said stemmed from an ongoing feud with the victim. Police also questioned, but did not arrest, a second man, who drove the Jeep carrying the suspect from the scene of the slaying. The victim, Dominic Bell, 20, whose last know address was a FEMA trailer park in Baton Rouge, had a lengthy police record and was known in the neighborhood as “D-Block." He died at 6:16 p.m. at University Hospital, said John Gagliano, a spokesman for the Orleans Parish Coroner’s office. The shooting took place around 5:30 p.m. inside Waad Discount Store on the corner of Governor Nicholls Street and North Johnson Street, police said. First District Officer Armand Clavo, a five-year police veteran, said he had just returned home from a shift when his cell phone ring.
[edit] 04/06/07 – 1 murder
55) New Orleans Police are investigating the shooting death of a 40-year-old man this morning in Algiers. The shooting occurred shortly before 5:45 a.m. at 431 Whitney Ave. The man's name is being withheld pending notification of relatives. Fourth District officers found the victim when responding to a call. He was lying inside the residence, suffering from a gunshot wound to the chest. Emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene and transported the man to a local hospital, where he died.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/04/man_shot_to_death_in_algiers.html
[edit] 04/07/07 – 2 murders
56) A 31-year-old man was murdered Saturday afternoon in the Faubourg Marigny, New Orleans Police said. The victim’s name has been withheld, pending notification of family members. According to Officer Garry G. Flot, an NOPD spokesman, the incident took place at 12:15 p.m. in the 1300 block of Marigny Street. Fifth District officers responded to calls of a shooting and found the victim lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his body, Flot said. The victim was rushed to a nearby hospital where he later died. Police are asking anyone with information on this incident to contact Crimestoppers at 822-1111. Callers do not have to identify themselves and could be eligible for a cash reward.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl040707khmdr.40b0b023.html
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A Marrero man was shot to death Saturday afternoon in the 8th Ward, New Orleans police said. His death brings New Orleans' homicide total for the year to at least 56. Damont Jenkins, 31, was found shot about 12:15 p.m. in the 1300 block of Marigny Street in the St. Roch neighborhood, police spokesman Garry Flot said. Jenkins, who was found on a sidewalk between Urquhart and North Villere streets, was pronounced dead on arrival at a local hospital, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity. An autopsy will be performed today. Jenkins formerly lived in New Orleans in the 1200 block of France Street, police said. Court records showed he had three drug convictions in New Orleans.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1176013466312450.xml&coll=1
57) Police also are investigating a shooting death late Saturday in the 9100 block of Fig Street. Shortly before midnight, Second District officers responded to a call and found man lying on the sidewalk with several gunshot wounds to the body. Emergency medical technicians called to the scene pronounced the man dead. He has not been identified.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/04/nopd_probing_two_saturday_murd.html
[edit] 04/08/07 – 1 murder
58) A woman was found dead inside a FEMA trailer near the temporary campus of Southern University at New Orleans on Sunday morning, the third murder victim in New Orleans over the Easter weekend. A man has been arrested in connection with the beating death of Artherine Williams, 69, of Dallas, authorities said. Police received a call from a neighboring trailer and arrived on the scene shortly after 4 a.m., said Officer Garry Flot, a spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department. Police could hear someone moving around inside the trailer but had to knock several times before a man answered the door, Flot said. That man, Gregory Truvia, 43, refused to cooperate with police and tried to run from the scene. Police nabbed him, but Truvia and two officers suffered minor injuries in the scuffle and all three were hospitalized for treatment for a short time. Police booked Truvia with second degree murder. Officers found Williams lying on the floor of the trailer with blunt-force trauma to her head. Emergency medical technicians declared her dead at the scene. An autopsy shows she had been beaten to death, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office. Gagliano said the woman originally was a New Orleans resident who had been displaced to Dallas by Hurricane Katrina and had returned to New Orleans for what was supposed to be a short stay to handle some family matters. The trailer is in a trailer park at 6801 Press Drive run by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Although the trailer park is near the campus of Southern University, the chancellor, Victor Ukpolo, said neither faculty nor students live there. "The incident in question did not occur on the Southern University at New Orleans temporary north campus," Harold Clark, a university spokesman, said in a prepared statement. "No SUNO students, faculty or staff members were involved." Flot said Truvia was refusing to cooperate with the investigation. Police do not know what the relationship was between him and Williams. The murder is being investigated by Detective Harold Wischan. He can be reached at 658-5300. Williams' death was third in New Orleans since early Saturday afternoon.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/04/nopd_probing_two_saturday_murd.html
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Authorities arrested a 43-year-old man Sunday for the murder of an unidentified woman in a FEMA trailer park near the SUNO campus. It happened around 4:30 a.m. Sunday near the intersection of Leon C. Simon Boulevard and Press Drive. According to police, officers responded a call of “unknown trouble†inside a trailer and when they arrived, the suspect refused to cooperate and tried to flee the scene. Police said the suspect became combative with police, and the officers sustained some injuries during a struggle with the man. The victim was found lying on the floor of the trailer with trauma to the head. She died at the scene. Police said they were still looking for a motive, but they arrested and booked 43-year-old Gregory Truvia with second degree murder.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl040807jbsuno.1412ce6.html
[edit] 04/10/07 – 1 murder
59) The son of New Orleans music legend Deacon John was fatally shot in his car on an Uptown street Tuesday afternoon, and police quickly arrested a suspect, police said. Keith Moore, 43, who also goes by the name Deacon Johnson, was shot behind the wheel of his car at or near the intersection of Austerlitz and Annunciation streets, less than a block from Tchoupitoulas Street, about 3:20 p.m., New Orleans police said. Police said Moore and two companions drove to the area to buy drugs, but a gunman instead fired into the car, hitting Moore in the chest. Although mortally wounded, Moore drove 10 blocks to the intersection of Marengo and Prytania streets, police said. There, he apparently lost control of the car and slammed into the back of a truck driven by Luis Cruz, who was just leaving his home, Cruz and police said. In a chain reaction, Cruz's truck rammed into a car driven by Claudia Kheel, police and Kheel said.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/base/news-7/1176268304309540.xml&coll=1
[edit] 04/17/07 - 1 murder
60) New Orleans Police were on the scene of the city’s latest murder Tuesday night in the 1800 block of Bayou Road near North Claiborne and Esplanade. Sources told Eyewitness News the shots rang out around 8:30 p.m. and the victim was a 16-year-old male. The victim was sitting on an ice chest when he was gunned down; he was pronounced dead at the scene. Witnesses said they heard several gunshots and saw a young male slumped over on the ground. They said they saw two men running towards Claiborne Avenue shortly after the shooting. Officers were nearby and were able to get to the scene very quickly; they said they recognized the teenager from the neighborhood, but could not immediately release his identification. The FBI and federal law enforcement officials were assisting the NOPD at the scene.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl041707jbshooting.1d1de1e4.html
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A 16-year-old boy, whose brother and three cousins have died from violence in New Orleans over the past seven years, was shot to death Tuesday night on Bayou Road near Esplanade Ridge. His father identified the victim as Nicholas Smith, a sophomore at John McDonogh High School and resident of Arts Street in the 8th Ward. Police responding to a report of a shooting found the boy lying face down in the 1800 block of Bayou Road about 8:20 p.m. Paramedics were unable to revive the boy who died from gunshot wounds at the scene, said officer Sabrina Richardson, public information officer Richardson said police have no motive or suspect, but homicide detectives, assisted by FBI agents, were interviewing people in the neighborhood to gather information. "This is my second son to be killed like this," said the boy's father, Gregory Lawrence. Christopher Smith, 19 at the time, was shot to death attending a second-line parade in May 2006.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-20/1176874704205230.xml&coll=1
[edit] 04/22/07 – 1 murder
61) Shortly after 6 p.m., New Orleans police responded to a call about a "male down" in the 4800 block of Alsace Street, and they found the victim lying on the ground. The area is a block east of Alcee Fortier Boulevard, between Peltier Street and Saigon Drive. The man had apparent gunshot wounds to the body, said Jonette Williams, a police public information officer. He died Sunday at 7 p.m. at University Hospital, John Gagliano, chief coroner's investigator, said. He said the man was believed to be 30 to 40 years old. An autopsy will be performed today.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1177308910220160.xml&coll=1
[edit] 04/26/06 – 1 murder
62) In one case, a man was beaten to death early Thursday just outside the Orleans Parish Criminal Courthouse. The beating took place around 4:30 a.m., said New Orleans Police Sgt. Joe Narcisse. An officer driving past the intersection of Tulane Avenue and Broad Street spotted a man on the ground near Quicky's convenience store. The victim, who came to New Orleans from Pontiac, Mich., to work, had argued with a 46-year-old man just minutes before. Their spat ended when the man picked up a stick and began swinging, police said. The victim, whose name was not released pending notification of relatives, sustained head wounds and was pronounced dead at a hospital. Police arrested Don Davis, 46, who has an extensive criminal record, shortly after the incident and booked him with second-degree murder.
http://www.nola.com/crime/t-p/index.ssf?/base/news-8/117765522373820.xml&coll=1
[edit] 04/27/07 – 1 murder
63) A 22-year-old New Orleans man was shot to death and a second man wounded within two blocks of St. Charles Avenue in Central City Friday evening. The dead man was identified as Curtis Helms Jr. of New Orleans, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano. New Orleans police said both lived in the neighborhood where they were found wounded, on Fourth Street, between Carondelet and Baronne streets. An assault rifle was recovered on the scene by police, police spokesman officer Garry Flot said. Flot said detectives had no motive or suspect Friday night. Sixth District officers responded to a report of a shooting about 6 p.m. and found Helms collapsed in the grass next to the sidewalk in the next block, the 1600 block of Fourth Street, near Carondelet Street. He died at the scene. Police said the men were in a back yard in the 2700 block of Baronne Street when they were confronted by one or more gunmen who began firing. At least one of the victims was chased along Fourth between Carondelet and Baronne and was repeatedly shot, police said. The other man was found by police shot in the leg in the 1700 block of Fourth Street, Flot said. He was in stable condition at a hospital. He said both men lived in the immediate neighborhood. Flot said it was the 62nd murder in New Orleans this year.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/04/22yearold_62nd_murder_victim_o.html
[edit] 05/05/07 – 1 murder
64) Troy Dent, 22, of New Orleans, was shot Saturday about 11 p.m. at South Claiborne and Louisiana Avenue, John Gagliano, chief coroner's investigator said. Dent, who was shot in a car, died Sunday at 5:15 a.m. at Tulane University Hospital, Gagliano said.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/man_22_slain_in_car_on_s_claib.html
[edit] 05/07/05 – 1 murder
65) An unidentified man wearing a house arrest monitoring device on his ankle was shot to death in a fusillade of bullets which also wounded a 17-year-old boy Monday night in the Lower 9th Ward. Monday's shooting came after a bloody Sunday during which at least six people were wounded in New Orleans in several unrelated shootings, according to police. The man wearing the ankle bracelet had no identification on his person, and was lying on the ground next to the driver's side of a bullet-pocked car with its engine running and its driver's door open. He was pronounced dead on the scene. Police and the coroner's office hope to identify the victim by tracing the ankle bracelet. The second victim, also wound several times, managed to run about eight blocks toward the river to Tricou and Douglass streets before collapsing, police said. His vital signs were stable when he was taken to an unidentified hospital, police said. His condition wasn't available. Police had no information as to motive or suspect in the shooting. It was unknown whether the victims were in the 2000 Impala when they were approached by the killer at about 7 p.m. Police found the car pulled over to the right side of the road in the 6000 block of North Rampart Street, between Tupelo and St. Maurice streets, said police spokesman Officer Garry Flot.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/man_killed_teen_wounded_in_low.html
[edit] 05/08/07 – 1 murder
66) Officers already in the Pigeon Town area heard shots about 7:50 p.m. and found a man lying on the corner of Hickory and Leonidas streets. He was Michael Combs, 39, of New Orleans, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. Medics tried to revive Combs, but were unsuccessful, according to police spokeswoman Officer Sabrina Richardson. Combs died at the scene on a sidewalk in front of a bar. Richardson did not know if the bar was open. Numerous bullet casings were found on the sidewalk and street near Combs' body.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/man_shot_to_death_in_pigeon_to.html
[edit] 5/9/07 – 1 murder
67) A 29-year-old man was shot to death Wednesday afternoon in the 7th Ward and another man with whom he was feuding was taken in for questioning in the incident, police said. Jay Landers, of New Orleans, died of multiple gunshot wounds. Police received a report of a man shot in the 2200 block of A.P. Tureaud Avenue and found Landers lying on his back on a grass patch along the sidewalk. Landers was dead on the scene and bullet casings lay on the sidewalk next to him and in the street nearby. The man who police took in for questioning was still on the scene and did not try to flee, police said. Police said he and Landers were involved in an ongoing feud and had gotten into an argument shortly before the shooting.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/29yearold_killed_in_7th_ward_s.html
[edit] 5/11/07 – 1 murder
68) A 23-year-old New Orleans man was shot and killed in the Iberville public housing complex Friday night, police said. Police received a call at 7:18 p.m. of a man shot, and found Mark Oneal lying in front of a building in the 1400 block of Conti Street, police spokeswoman Officer Jonette Williams said. He died at 8:44 p.m. at Tulane University Hospital, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who identified the man. An autopsy is scheduled today. Police had not established a motive or a suspect in the shooting, Williams said. Oneal was shot in the back of the head, Williams said. Police officials had no further information on the circumstances of the shooting.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1178952149114240.xml&coll=1
[edit] 05/14/07 - 2 murders (and 1 hit and run)
(Hit and Run) This morning, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating a traffic accident that resulted in the death of a 17-year-old New Orleans female, whose name is being withheld pending notification of family members. The offense occurred shortly after 4:00 A.M., at the intersection of A.P. Tureaud Avenue and North Roman Street. According to investigators, the preliminary investigation revealed a 22-year-old male and a 17-year-old female were traveling west on North Roman Street on bicycles. The male traveled in front of the female and crossed the intersection of A.P. Tureaud Avenue and North Roman Street. The female followed and was struck by an older model white Ford F-150 that was traveling north on A.P. Tureaud Avenue. The 17-year-old female was pronounced dead on scene. The 22-year-old male was not injured.
69) Police found the unidentified man dead Monday morning in eastern New Orleans with gunshot wounds to the head. Officers responding to a call to the intersection of Venice Boulevard and Wales Street about 4 a.m. found the man on the ground, officer Jonette Williams said. The man was not carrying identification, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The intersection is near Paris Road in an area overgrown with weeds and brush. The victim's identity was unknown Monday. The man appeared to be between 25 and 30 years old, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner. He was 5 feet 10 inches, weighed about 180 pounds and had a beard. His upper right arm had a tattoo that read "NO" and "9th," and had a separate tattoo of an eye with a teardrop.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-21/117921078763560.xml&coll=1
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Corey Coleman, 21, of New Orleans, was found dead Monday about 6:30 a.m. at Venice and Wales streets. He died sometime early Monday, the coroner's office estimated.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-21/117955588876540.xml&coll=1
70) And Emanuel Gardner, 17, of New Orleans, was shot in Central City.
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In an unrelated incident, Gardner was shot in the chest Monday afternoon in Central City. The shooting occurred shortly before 4 p.m. near the intersection of 7th and Freret streets, police said. The victim was taken to University Hospital, where he died at 9:32 p.m., Gagliano said. An autopsy will be performed today.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-21/117921078763560.xml&coll=1
[edit] 05/16/07 – 1 murder
71) A 42-year-old Terrytown man was shot to death early Wednesday, New Orleans police reported. The incident happened about 1:20 a.m. in the rear parking area of an apartment complex in the 3500 block of Garden Oaks Drive, police said. The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of family members According to investigators, Fourth District officers responded to a call of a man shot inside a vehicle. When the officers arrived, they found the man inside a white four-door Hyundai Sonata with several gunshot wounds to the body. He was pronounced dead on the scene by emergency medical technicians.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1179385821301370.xml&coll=1
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Two days later, Edward Charles Balser, 42, of Terrytown, was shot dead in a car in the 3500 block of Garden Oaks Drive. The killing occurred Wednesday about 1:20 a.m. Coleman and Balser suffered multiple gunshot wounds, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released the identities.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-21/117955588876540.xml&coll=1
[edit] 05/25/07 – 2 murders
72) A young man riding a bicycle was gunned down Friday afternoon in Central City, putting the city's homicide total this year at 72, police said. Police, following a report of gunshots, found the victim around 2:25 p.m. face down on the ground near the corner of Second and South Miro streets, officer Sabrina Richardson said. Arthur Dowell, 18, of New Orleans died at the scene, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner's office. Dowell was shot multiple times and fell in a patch of grass alongside the street. He was dressed in a collared white shirt, jeans and basketball shoes. Police said they found a .44-caliber Magnum handgun next to his body. A woman, identified by officers as a relative, ran to the scene as investigators congregated on the street corner. She cried, stomped her feet and screamed in grief before officers consoled and ushered her away. Minutes later, a group of three young men tried to rush the crime scene and get a last look at the victim, saying he was a good friend.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1180157615310980.xml&coll=1
73) A bar shooting episode in New Orleans left one man dead and another wounded in the leg late Friday night, police said. The shootings occurred at the Daiquiris Island Bar in the 7900 block of Earhart Boulevard, according to the New Orleans Police Department. Second District police arrived on the scene shortly after 11 p.m. and found a 22-year-old New Orleans man lying on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to the head and body. Emergency medical technicians pronounced him dead at the scene. The second victim, a 53-year-old New Orleans man, was taken to a local hospital for treatment of his leg wound and was later listed in stable condition, according to police.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/one_dead_one_wounded_in_no_bar.html
[edit] 05/27/05 – 2 murders
74) A 17-year-old boy was shot and killed near the route of today's Super Sunday Mardi Gras Indians parade, authorities said. The slaying happened in the 800 block of N. Dupre, just a block off the parade's Orleans Avenue route. The parade began at 3 p.m. at Orleans and Bayou St. John. Family members of the victim had gathered at the scene a few minutes after the shooting but declined comment to a reporter. Violence on the routes of parades like today's event has led the city to increase parade fees because of the extra police personnel that have to be on the scene now. On Jan. 15, 2006, three people were wounded by gunfire on Orleans Avenue after a second-line parade passed by. On that day, shootings broke out at least twice on the section of Orleans between Claiborne Avenue and Broad Street. Two months later, a gunman opened fire on a crowd near South Derbigny Street and Washington Avenue, killing a 19-year-old man and injuring another before being shot in the leg by a New Orleans police officer. That shooting occurred even though several New Orleans police officers were escorting the second-line procession, which followed a jazz funeral for Robert Clark, a member of the Single Men's Social Aid and Pleasure Club who died in September.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/shooting_death_near_parade_rou.html
75) New Orleans Police are investigating the city's two latest homicides, which took place late Sunday and early Monday.
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The first shooting happened in the 1200 block of Clouet Street, according to police. Officers from the 5th District received a call around 11 p.m. and found Ernest Williams, of Marrero, suffering from several gunshot wounds to the head and body, according to police. Williams, 24, later died at University Hospital, according to coroner's office.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/nopd_seeking_clues_in_two_rece.html
[edit] 05/28/07 – 1 murder
76) New Orleans Police are investigating the city's two latest homicides, which took place late Sunday and early Monday.
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The second shooting death happened shortly after 1:30 a.m. in the 6400 block of North Villere Street, according to police. A Chalmette man, whose identity has not been released, was shot in an apparent drug buy gone wrong, New Orleans police said. Officers in the 5th District responded to a call that a man had been shot but he left the scene for a St. Bernard Parish residence. New Orleans detectives met with St. Bernard Parish sheriff's deputies who had just gotten a call from Fourth and Chalmette streets that a man who had been shot arrived at that location, police said. Police arrived to find the victim suffering from several gunshots. He died at a Chalmette emergency medical facility, police said. Dectectives said the victim and another Chalmette man, the driver of the car who was not injured in the shooting, went to the 6400 block of North Villere Street in New Orleans to buy drugs. The victim argued with a man who approached the vehicle. The man opened fire on the car, hitting the victim in the passenger seat, police said. The shooter got away, police said. The driver sped off trying to escape gunfire, and ended up at a residence at Fourth and Chalmette streets, where he then called authorities, police said. No charges have been filed so far in this homicide
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/nopd_seeking_clues_in_two_rece.html
[edit] 05/29/07 – 1 murder
77) A 38-year-old New Orleans man was fatally shot in the head Tuesday morning in the 7th Ward, the latest in a string of fatal shootings across the city. Shortly before 8 a.m., officers responding to a call of a man down found the victim on the ground in a park near the corner of North Claiborne and St. Bernard avenues, New Orleans police officer Jonette Williams said. Tuesday's homicide marked the sixth killing in New Orleans since Friday afternoon. Robert Billiot, 38, of New Orleans, was dead at the scene, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner's office. Billiot had been shot once in the head. Billiot died near Hunter's Field, underneath a concrete wall painted with murals of community leaders and Mardi Gras Indians. Just two days earlier, hundreds of people had packed the park, which serves as an ending point to the Mardi Gras Indians' Super Sunday celebration.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1180509838134910.xml&coll=1
[edit] 05/30/07 – 1 murder
78) A New Orleans cab driver was found shot to death in Algiers this morning. New Orleans Police said the incident happened around 6:50 this morning in the 3100 block of Rose Lane in the Christopher Homes development. The 60-year-old Yellow Cab driver died on the scene from a single gunshot wound to the chest, police said. Emergency medical technicians pronounced him dead on the scene. New Orleans Police detectives and officers blanketed the area Wednesday morning during a steady rain looking for witnesses and clues. A man who claimed he witnessed the shooting said he heard the cab's brakes squeal and the cab hit the fence in front of the apartment and bounce off the fence. He said a passenger in the cab had shot the driver and then ran from the area.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/05/cab_driver_slain_in_algiers.html
[edit] 06/02/07 – 1 murder
79) The woman, Tammie Johnson, 36, of New Orleans, died of a shotgun blast to the chest, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. On Saturday shortly before 8:30 p.m., police were called to a house in the 4800 block of Rosalia Drive and found Johnson on the floor. She was pronounced dead at the scene, just north of Hammond Street, between Read Boulevard and Bundy Road, said Jonette Williams, a public information officer for the New Orleans police. On Sunday, an autopsy revealed that the injuries were caused by a shotgun, said Gagliano, who released her identity.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1180940599316720.xml&coll=1
[edit] 06/03/07 – 1 murder
80) In the other case, police were called to the 1300 block of Bartholomew Street on Sunday shortly after 7 a.m. In an alley between Urquhart and North Villere streets, officers found a 26-year-old man with an apparent gunshot wound to the head, Williams said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. An autopsy later Sunday showed he had been shot in the face, Gagliano said. His identity was withheld while authorities attempted to notify his relatives.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-21/1180940599316720.xml&coll=1
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Larry Hawkins, 26, of New Orleans, was found shot dead shortly after 7 a.m. in an alley in the 1300 block of Bartholomew Street. He suffered two gunshot wounds to the face, Gagliano said. http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/police_believe_man_killed_by_h.html
[edit] 06/04/07 – 2 murders
81) Earlier Monday, Terrell Ceazer, 25, of New Orleans, was fatally shot in Treme. Shortly after 3 a.m., police responded to a call about a "male shot" on at St. Ann Street and North Claiborne Avenue. Ceazer had already been taken to a hospital by a private citizen, Jonette Williams, an information officer for New Orleans police, said. He died Monday shortly after 4 a.m. at University Hospital, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity. An autopsy showed he died of multiple gunshot wounds.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/police_believe_man_killed_by_h.html
82) Police said a man was shot to death by his wife Monday evening in the Central City neighborhood, the fourth slaying in New Orleans in three days and the second Monday, police said. The Orleans Parish coroner's office identified the dead man as George Hammond, 45, of New Orleans. Police said his wife, Janet Hammond, was a suspect. Police responded to a call about gunshots in the 1800 block of Second Street shortly before 7:30 p.m., and found George Hammond inside a blue shotgun double, Sabrine Richardson, a police public information officer said. Hammond was pronounced dead at the scene. He had been shot in the stomach, police said.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/police_believe_man_killed_by_h.html
[edit] 06/05/07 – 1 murder
83) Shortly before 10 p.m., officers responded to a call that shots had been heard. Before they could reach the area where the shots had been heard, police received a call about a man on the ground in the 1600 block of Baronne Street, Sabrina Richardson, a public information officer for New Orleans police, said. The man had multiple gunshot wounds, and was pronounced dead at the scene, near Euterpe Street.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/man_shot_to_death_in_central_c.html
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The Orleans Parish coroner's office has released the identity of a 19-year-old man who was gunned down Tuesday night in Central City. Someone used an AK-47 assault rifle to shoot Persale R. Green shortly before 10 p.m., New Orleans police said. Green, of New Orleans, was found face down on a sidewalk in the 1600 block of Baronne Street, midway between Terpsichore and Euterpe streets. An autopsy showed Green was shot several times, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1181369696128160.xml&coll=1
[edit] 06/09/07 – 2 murders
84) The first shooting occurred about 9:40 p.m. on a sidewalk in the 3400 block of Touro Street, between Pleasure and Lafreniere streets. An 18-year-old man died at the scene, in the area of Interstate 610 and Elysian Fields Avenue.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/no_police_investigate_two_murd.html
85) About 45 minutes later, the second shooting took place at Marais and Spain streets, in the St. Roch neighborhood. A 27-year-old man was found dead in the street. He suffered multiple shots to the body, police said. A first-degree murder warrant for the arrest of Audy Matterre, 34, was issued Sunday. Matterre has outstanding warrants for attempted murder, armed robbery and a municipal attachment. Matterre should be considered armed and extremely dangerous, police said. Officers learned that a dark-colored SUV fled the scene of the shooting. The vehicle has since been found and impounded for further investigation.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/no_police_investigate_two_murd.html
[edit] 06/10/07 – 1 murder
86) A third overnight shooting happened at about 2 a.m. in the 4200 block of Clara Street. Police responded to a report of shots fired to find a 26-year-old man lying on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/no_police_investigate_two_murd.html
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Samuel Gonzales, 26, of Guatemala, was killed Sunday about 2 a.m. in the 4200 block of Clara Street in the general area of Napoleon and South Claiborne avenues. Gonzales was found after shots were heard. Police said he was a local resident, but he was from Guatemala, said Gagliano, who released his identity.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/man_killed_in_central_city_sho.html
[edit] 06/11/07 – 2 murders
87) A 19-year-old New Orleans man was fatally shot Monday afternoon in his car on a Central City street, dying about three hours later after driving himself to the hospital, police and the coroner's office said. Darryl Williams was pronounced dead at Touro Infirmary at 3:50 p.m., said John Gagliano, spokesman for the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office. He had a gunshot wound to the abdomen that entered through his side, said NOPD spokeswoman Officer Sabrina Richardson. Richardson said the victim was sitting inside his vehicle shortly after 1 p.m., when an unidentified man approached on foot and opened fire. Williams drove himself to the hospital where he died following surgery, Richardson said.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/man_killed_in_central_city_sho.html
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New Orleans police were looking into the shooting death of a 19-year-old male Monday. It happened around 1:00 p.m. at the intersection of Sixth and Daneel Streets. Investigators said police arrived at Touro Hospital after being alerted the victim had driven himself there. He had been shot once in the abdomen and later died at the hospital. Police said the victim had been inside a vehicle and was approached by a man who then opened fire on him.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl061107jbshooting.3b0af95c.html
88) 42-year-old man was found dead in his home in the Marigny in an apparent homicide, New Orleans police detectives said. The murder took place Monday at 7:30 p.m., in the 600 block of Port Street, according to Officer Sabrina Richardson, an NOPD spokesperson. Fifth District officers found the victim lying inside the home, Richardson said. He had sustained blunt force trauma to the head. The victim, whose name has not been released pending notification of family members, was pronounced dead at the scene. Investigators learned that the victim’s car, a 1997 Nissan Maxima, was missing. The vehicle was gold in color with Louisiana license plate OON 105. A Pontiac symbol may also have been near the trunk keyhole.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl061207khmarignymdr.3d3adbbe.html
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Robin Malta, 43, was found dead in his house at 634 Port St. between Chartres and Royal streets when his sister went to check on him, Gagliano said. He said the exact cause of death was not known, but the case was being treated as a homicide Monday night. It appeared the man had wounds that could be conistent with homicide, but authorities could not be sure because the body was decomposed. An autopsy will be performed today, Gagliano said.
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[edit] 06/17/07 – 3 murders
89) A man was shot to death around 4 a.m. today, the New Orleans Police Department reported. The unidentified man was found lying in the street at Gordon and Urquhart Streets by Fifth District officers responding to a report of shots being fired in the area. He had a gunshot wound to the head. Emergency medical technicians pronounced the man dead on the scene.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/man_found_killed_in_lower_9th.html
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In a third, unrelated case, the coroner's office Friday identified a man shot to death early Sunday in the Lower 9th Ward as Jason Wynne, 21, who lived in St. Bernard Parish but was originally from Georgia, said John Gagliano, chief investigator of the coroner's office. Wynne was found in the middle of Gordon and Urquhart streets by 5th District officers responding to a report of shots being fired in the area shortly before 4 a.m., New Orleans police said.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1182580827218590.xml&coll=1
90) The first shooting, in Central City, occurred about 6:30 p.m. in the 2200 block of Josephine Street, between Simon Bolivar Avenue and South Liberty Street. A man died later Sunday in a hospital, police said. That slaying occurred three blocks from the corner of Josephine and Danneel streets, where five young men ranging in age from 16 to 19 were fatally shot exactly one year before.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/2_fatally_shot_sunday_evening.html
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Jerrell Jackson, 21, was shot Sunday about 6:30 p.m. in Central City in the 2200 block of Josephine Street, between Simon Bolivar Avenue and South Liberty Street. He was pronounced dead at 7:25 a.m. at University Hospital. He was killed three blocks from the corner of Josephine and Danneel streets, where five young men ranging in age from 16 to 19 were fatally shot exactly one year earlier. Police have not established any direct link between the two incidents, but officers said they have heard that rivalries between two or even three loosely-organized neighborhood groups near Josephine Street may have had a hand in both cases.
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Jackson survived a chest wound in a July 17, 2005, shooting, and was shot three times this year, Meisch said. He was shot in the arm March 2 in the 2100 block of South Liberty Street, shot again on March 18, again in Central City, and shot a third time Uptown on Foucher Street, Meisch said. In each case he refused to cooperate with 6th District and 2nd District investigators, Meisch said. In the South Liberty Street case, Jackson and a man believed to have exchanged fire with him showed up at the hospital, and neither would give information to police, Meisch said. Jackson appeared in court last Thursday for pretrial hearings in a drug-trafficking case, but the hearings were postponed until Aug. 16, according to court records. Jackson was charged March 30 with possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession with intent to distribute crack and possession of crack.
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91) About two hours later Sunday, another fatal shooting occurred in the 1900 block of Esplanade Avenue, between North Prieur and North Johnson streets, at the border between the 7th Ward and the 6th Ward.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/2_fatally_shot_sunday_evening.html
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In a second fatal shooting on Sunday, the coroner's office has identified the victim as Christopher Roberts, 33, of New Orleans. Police officials didn't provide any information about that killing, which occurred in the 1900 block of Esplanade Avenue
Chris Roberts, age 33, of Bywater was murdered in the 1900 Block of Esplanade around 8pm while looking at an apartment when someone tried to steal his motorcycle. As Roberts approached the thief, he was shot twice. He had recently returned to New Orleans after living in Alabama because the company he worked for, a custom motorcycle manufacturer, decided to relocate there and not return to the New Orleans area.
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[edit] 06/22/07 – 1 murder
92) A 22-year-old man was fatally shot early this morning in eastern New Orleans, police said. Officers responding to an emergency call found the man laying in the street around 4 a.m. in the 7800 block of Star Street, New Orleans Police said in a news release. The man, whose identity was not released, had been shot several times. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Police also recovered a handgun the man had with him.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/06/man_found_dead_in_eastern_no.html
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The man killed in Little Woods was identified as Samuel Williams Jr. He had gunshot wounds to the back and head, police spokeswoman Officer Jonette Williams said.
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[edit] 06/29/07 – 1 murder
93) This evening, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the apparent shooting death of a 19-year-old local male. The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of family members. The offense occurred at approximately 2:20 p.m., in the 2100 block of Annunciation Street.
According to investigators, Sixth District officers responded to a call of “shots fired†and upon their arrival found the victim lying on the sidewalk with multiple gunshot wounds to the body. Emergency medical technicians were summoned to the scene where he was pronounced dead.
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A 19-year-old New Orleans man was shot to death Friday on an Annunciation Street sidewalk in a neighborhood of mixed-income homes where the St. Thomas public housing complex was located, police said. The man was identified as Jeremy Tillman of New Orleans. He was shot several times and died at the scene, police said. One bullet appeared to have entered his side near his heart, officers said. Sixth District officers responded to a report of gunfire about 2:20 p.m. and found Tillman lying dead on the sidewalk in the 2100 block of Annunciation, police spokesman Officer Garry Flot said. Bullet casings lay nearby, and police said he apparently collapsed where he was shot. Police said they have no suspect, although officers speculated that revenge might have fueled the killing. Detectives were recently investigating Tillman's possible involvement in a fatal shooting about three weeks ago in Central City, officers said, though there was insufficient evidence to arrest him. Tillman was a "701 release" in February at Orleans Parish Criminal District Court, when the district attorney's office failed to present to a magistrate within 60 days enough evidence to detain him further on charges of possession of crack cocaine and resisting arrest, according to court records.
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[edit] 06/30/07 – 5 murders (1 victim died 08/18/07), 1 hit and run
94) The murder took place shortly after 1 p.m. at the intersection of Higgins Street and Press Drive, according to Officer Jonette Williams, an NOPD spokesperson.
Fifth District Officers found the victim lying in the driveway of a home with a gunshot wound to the head, Williams said. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
Investigators have not identified the victim, but said she did have a tattoo on her right forearm that said “Jennifer.â€
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl063007khmdrgentilly.2dc466c0.html
95) A man has died seven weeks after he was shot in eastern New Orleans, the Orleans Parish coroner's office said. Gary Walls, 22, of New Orleans, was shot June 30 about 4 p.m. in the 14000 block of Chef Menteur Highway, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. Walls died Saturday at 5:18 p.m. at University Hospital. He died of complications from a gunshot wound to the head.
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96) The first of the four slayings occurred about 4:30 p.m. Saturday at Conti and North Galvez streets. Arthur Jackson Jr., 29, of New Orleans, was shot several times and died at 3:46 a.m. Sunday at University Hospital, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. Gagliano, who released Jackson's identity, said Jackson died during surgery. Later, outside University Hospital, Jackson's aunt said the shooting occurred while Jackson was a passenger in a car. The man behind the wheel drove the car to the hospital with Jackson and an unharmed 13-year-old boy inside. http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-22/1183357548132090.xml&coll=1
97) The first of those slayings occurred shortly after 10 p.m. when New Orleans police officers found a 33-year-old New Orleans man dead on the porch of a residence at 1440 Annette Street. The victim, whose name is being withheld pending notification of family, suffered stab wounds to the neck.
He was pronounced dead on the scene.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/07/three_killed_in_separate_new_o.html
98) The second incident occurred shortly after 11 p.m. when a 33-year-old man died from several gunshot wounds to his body, said Officer Jonette Williams, police spokeswoman. Fifth District officers responded to a call of gunfire at 3023 Republic St. and found the victim lying on the porch with gunshot wounds to the torso. The man, whose name has not been released pending notification of relatives, was pronounced dead on the scene. About a block and a half away, in the 1700 block of Agriculture Street, officers found a 21-year-old New Orleans man suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to the shoulder. He was brought by ambulance to a local hospital for treatment. A third victim, another 21-year-old man, was brought to a hospital in a private car suffering from a gunshot wound to the back, Williams said. Investigators said the three men were sitting on the porch of the house when someone approached and opened fire, Williams said.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/07/three_killed_in_separate_new_o.html
(Hit and Run) Tonight, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating a traffic accident that resulted in the death of an unidentified adult male. The incident occurred at 11:30 p.m., on the Crescent City Connection bridge, east bound. According to investigators, the preliminary investigation revealed that the victim walked on the Crescent City Connection bridge, attempted to cross several lanes of vehicular traffic and was struck by an unknown, late model sedan that fled the scene. The victim was elevated from the ground and struck by a second vehicle that rendered aid. The victim was pronounced dead on scene. No other injuries were reported. Currently, investigators are gathering evidence and information to determine the cause of the accident. An autopsy will be conducted by the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office to determine the exact cause of death. Toxicology test results are pending and no charges have been filed at this time. Traffic Fatality Investigator Anthony Pontiff is in charge of the investigation.
[edit] 07/01/07 – 2 murders
99) A 26-year-old man was gunned down in the 1500 block of North Johnson Street early Sunday and a man was arrested in connection with the slaying later that same morning.
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Early Sunday afternoon, police announced the arrest of Kirk Williams, 23, in connection with the North Johnson Street murder, which occurred around 1 a.m. Sunday. The name of the victim has not been released, pending notification of family members. According to investigators, First District Officers responding to a call found the victim lying in the driver's seat of a vehicle, suffering from an apparent gunshot wound to head. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/07/three_killed_in_separate_new_o.html
100) The most recent crime related death took place just around 9 p.m. in Orleans Parish in the 1800 block of St. Roch. Police said they found the body of a 65-year-old man in the side alley of an abandoned warehouse. He had a gunshot wound to the head.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl070107jbcrime.31cb6635.html
[edit] 07/05/07 – 1 murder
101) New Orleans police were called to a homicide in New Orleans East on Thursday morning. A 27-year-old man was found dead in a grassy area near a house on the 6000 block of Beechcraft Street. Police said the shooting happened at about 6:55 a.m. on the 4500 block of Skyview Drive. The victim's name hasn't been released.
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The Orleans Parish coroner's office has released the identity of a man who was shot to death on Skyview Drive in eastern New Orleans on Thursday. An autopsy determined Jerome Banks, 27, of New Orleans was killed by a shotgun blast to the chest, said chief cororner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity. About 6:55 a.m., police responded to a call found Banks lying in high grass in the driveway of a vacant house in the 6000 block of Beechcraft Street, said Garry Flot, a public information officer for the New Orleans police. He said police found evidence that Banks was shot nearby in the 4500 block of Skyview. Police said they were still investigating how Banks got from the shooting scene to Beechcraft Street, about a half block away. Banks was pronounced dead at the scene, several blocks northeast of Downman Road and Chef Menteur Highway. Banks had convictions for distribution of false drugs, and for burglary, court records showed. Records showed he was arrested at the end of May after allegedly failing to pay fines in the false-drugs case, but was released sometime after that.
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[edit] 07/13/07 – 1 murder
102) One man was killed and two others wounded, but a baby narrowly escaped injury Friday evening, when gunshots from a passing vehicle were fired at a parked van in Central City, New Orleans police said. None of the victims was identified by police. One died at a local hospital, where he was taken shortly after the shooting. He had been with at least three other people in a parked van, the apparent target of a drive-by shooting at about 8:35 p.m., police said. The other occupants of the van, parked on Clara Street, about a quarter block downtown from Felicity Street, were not hit. A second man, who was walking while carrying a baby boy, apparently was struck by at least one stray bullet. His condition was not immediately known. But the baby escaped injury. A third man described by police as a mechanic working in a shop nearby, was also believed to be grazed by a stray bullet. He escaped with a minor wound to the arm. The wounded were taken to a hospital. The attacker escaped. The neighborhood is dotted "Thou Shalt Not Kill" signs, including one at a Greater Full Gospel Church on the corner of Clara and Felicity. Central City has been the scene of repeated shootings in the last year, including the quintuple murder at Danneel and Josephine streets last year.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/07/3_wounded_in_central_city_shoo.html
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One man was killed, another was in critical condition and three others were injured in two separate shootings late Friday night in New Orleans. According to police, Sixth District officers went to the 1600 block of Clara Street shortly after 8:30 p.m. and discovered a 27-year-old man lying on the ground with gunshot wounds to the stomach area. He was rushed to a hospital and later died. Two other men were injured, a 23-year-old with a gunshot to the leg, and a 41-year-old with a graze wound to the torso. Both were brought to the hospital for treatment.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl071407tpclara.73eda3ee.html
[edit] 07/14/07 – 1 murder
103) An 18-year-old man who was shot and killed in Central City on Saturday has been identified as Keith Paige of New Orleans, the Orleans Parish coroner's office said. Paige was shot Saturday about 5 p.m. at Freret and Third streets, New Orleans police said. He died the same day at 7:55 p.m. at University Hospital. An autopsy showed he died of multiple gunshot wounds, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity. Paige's identity was unknown until Tuesday, when his mother identified him after traveling from Houston to New Orleans, Gagliano said.
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[edit] 07/18/07 – 2 murders
104) A 33-year-old man was shot in Eastern New Orleans at about 12:30 a.m. on Michoud Boulevard near Adventure Avenue, New Orleans police said. The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of family members. According to investigators, Seventh District officers responded to a call of a "male shot" and, upon their arrival, found the victim lying in the street with multiple gunshot wounds to his body next to a vehicle. Emergency medical technicians were summoned to the scene, where he was pronounced dead. Detectives found what they believed to be narcotics on the scene.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/07/eastern_new_orleans_man_shot.html
105) The Orleans Parish coroner's office has released the identity of a man who was fatally shot Wednesday in the Lower Garden District. Paul Burks, 24, of New Orleans was shot about 10:30 p.m. in the 2100 block of Annunciation Street, between Jackson Avenue and Josephine Street. A private citizen drove Burks to Touro Infirmary, where he died Thursday at 1:24 a.m. An autopsy showed Burks suffered one gunshot wound to the back, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano. Burks' identity was confirmed Friday by his mother, who arrived from out of town. Court records showed Burks had a conviction for possession of marijuana, first offense. He was shot in a block of apartments that formerly was the site of the St. Thomas public housing complex, said Sgt. Joe Narcisse, spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department.
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[edit] 07/21/07 – 1 murder
106) The New Orleans Police Department is investigating the shooting death around 9:30 a.m., Saturday, of a 54-year-old man near the corner of Jackson Avenue and Baronne Street in Central City. Police did not immediately have any motive or suspects in the shooting at a car wash at 2139 Baronne St., police spokeswoman Sabrina Richardson said. The coroner's office did not immediately identify the victim. Richardson said officers responded around 9:30 a.m. to a report of shots fired. They found the victim dead at the scene of a gun shot to the head.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/07/one_dead_in_central_city.html
[edit] 07/22/07 – 2 murders
107) A 26-year-old man was shot and killed about 1:30 a.m. Sunday at the intersection of Eagle and Spruce streets, the New Orleans Police Department said. Dallas Jerome suffered multiple gunshot wounds to the torso and a fatal shot to the head. He was pronounced dead at the scene, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano. A 20-year-old New Orleans woman, also involved in the incident, was shot once in the leg and was driven in a private car to a hospital for treatment. She is in stable condition, police said.
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108) A New Orleans teenager was found shot to death and another one wounded in an Algiers neighborhood Sunday night. New Orleans police continued the search for a motive and suspects Monday after James Johnson, 19, was found dead and an 18-year-old wounded. New Orleans police officers responded to a call Sunday shortly after 8:30 p.m. reporting a man lying near the street at 3537 Timber Wolf Lane. They and found the older victim with a gunshot wounds, including one to the head, officer Sabrina Richardson said. He was taken to University Hospital, where he died, said John Gagliano, spokesman for the New Orleans coroner's office. Police also found the 18-year-old man with a gunshot wound to the chest, Richardson said. He was taken to a local hospital, where he remains in stable condition. Detectives determined that the men were standing in front of a house when a van pulled up and someone fired several shots at them, Richardson said.
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[edit] 07/26/07 – 1 murder
109) New Orleans police are looking for the gunman in an early-morning carjacking that left one man dead Thursday. A friend said he'd rented his Panola Street pool house to 49-year-old Anthony White, who became the 108th homicide victim in New Orleans this year. White was a contractor for Jacobs Engineering out of Baton Rouge, Brad Robinson said. He was shot and killed at about 3 a.m. "It was a carjacking, and it could've happened to you -- it could've happened to anybody watching this broadcast. The guy was in the wrong place at the wrong time," Robinson said. White's blue 2002 Jeep Liberty was taken. It had Louisiana license plate PFV402.
http://www.wdsu.com/news/13760824/detail.html
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Police spokesman Sgt. Joe Narcisse said Second District officers were dispatched to the 8400 block of Panola St. shortly after 3 a.m., where they found the man bleeding on the roadway, apparently from a gunshot wound to the head. Emergency Medical Technicians were summoned but were unable to save the man, who died on the scene. Neighbors said the victim also had been run over with his own SUV. The victim's blue 2002 Jeep Liberty, bearing Louisiana license plate number PFV402 is missing.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/07/police_probe_carrollton_slayin.html
[edit] 07/28/07 – 1 murder
110) A man was fatally shot Saturday night in the Zion City neighborhood, New Orleans police said. The unidentified man was found dead in the Palmetto Canal along the 4100 block of Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard shortly before 9 p.m. The man died on the paved area inside the canal, not in the water. He appeared to have multiple gunshot wounds, said Sgt. Joe Narcisse, a police public information officer. An hour after the incident, police could be seen between South Dupre and South White streets, investigating and taking measurements on the concrete pavement in the canal, which was largely empty. The death brought the city's murder total for 2007 to at least 109.
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[edit] 07/30/07 – 1 murder
111) An early morning killing Monday in the Iberville housing development brought the city's murder total to at least 110 this year. Police received a report of gunshots around 7 a.m. in the 1400 block of Bienville Street, according to New Orleans Police Department officer Garry Flot. When police arrived, they found a man lying face down on the ground. He had been shot several times, Flot said. The victim was identified by the Orleans Parish coroner's office as 24-year-old John W. Barrow III. Barrow was living in Baton Rouge, but had recently returned to New Orleans, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the office. Barrow was gunned down in a patch of well-grown grass, under the shade of a tree that reached to the top of the development's three-story buildings. By midmorning, flies buzzed around the pool of blood. Dozens of people milled about the partially shuttered complex. A handful shook their heads, decrying the violence. The murder comes on the heels of a handful of shootings over the weekend.
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[edit] 07/31/07 – 1 murder
112) One man is dead and another is hospitalized in stable condition after an early morning shooting Tuesday in the 9th Ward. Shortly before 1 a.m., 5th District police responded to a call of "male down" near the corner of Marais and Pauline streets near the Industrial Canal, officer Sabrina Richardson said. Officers found one man with a gunshot wound in his chest and another with a gunshot wound in his buttocks, according to police. John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner's office, identified the man with the chest wound as Kevin Underwood, 22. Underwood died at University Hospital, Gagliano said. According to Gagliano, Underwood was a resident of Tuscaloosa, Ala. He didn't know if Underwood was living in New Orleans or visiting the city. Attempts to locate family members were unsuccessful. The other man was not identified, police said. There are no motives or suspects in the shooting, Richardson said. The shooting brings this year's murder total in New Orleans to at least 111.
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[edit] 08/04/07 – 1 murder
113) Last Saturday, Aug. 4, Pablo Mejia Jr. reported to work with his friend Ricardo Castillo at a home they were helping to rebuild in eastern New Orleans, in the 5200 block of Sandhurst Drive, just off Crowder and Lake Forest boulevards. Mejia had joined his father's contracting business after Katrina, figuring that with all the work that needed doing, this would be the best way to help his city and support his new family. As Mejia and Castillo worked, at around 2 p.m., three gunmen approached the house and demanded money. Mejia had been kneeling at the front door installing a lock when he was kicked inside the house by two of the gunmen. The third came through a second door and put a gun to Castillo's back. Mejia and Castillo immediately complied, raising their hands as the robbers grabbed their wallets from their back pockets. Castillo said the two men did not resist and even offered the robbers their tools. Still, the gunmen ordered the two men to the back of the house. In a blur, Castillo recalled, one of the intruders raised his gun toward Mejia's forehead and fired without provocation. Castillo believes the same fate probably was planned for him, but the blast that killed his friend seemed to shock the robbers and sent all three running from the house.
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[edit] 08/05/07 – 1 murder
114) Tonight, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the apparent shooting death of an unidentified African-American male. The offense occurred in the 1400 block Bienville Street in the Iberville Housing Development at approximately 10:55 p.m.
According to investigators, First District officers responded to a call of a “male shot†and, upon their arrival, found the victim lying on the ground in the rear driveway with a multiple gunshot wounds to his body. Emergency medical technicians were summoned to the scene, where he was pronounced dead.
[edit] 08/06/07 – 1 murder
115) A 19-year-old man was killed in a shooting at North Rocheblave and St. Anthony streets late Monday night. Police responded to a call of a man down in the street in the Gentilly neighbhorhood at 10:30 p.m. and found the victim lying in the street with two gunshot wounds to the upper body. The man, who was not identified Monday night, was taken to a local hospital where he was pronounced dead minutes later. Police said the intersection a history of violence and drug activity.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/young_man_wounded_in_gentilly.html
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The Orleans Parish coroner's office has disclosed the identity of a 19-year-old man fatally shot Monday night in the 7th Ward. In the third homicide in three days in New Orleans, Thomas Jackson was shot shortly after 10:30 p.m. in the 2300 block of St. Anthony Street. New Orleans police responded to a call about a "male down," and found Jackson of New Orleans lying in the street, between North Rocheblave and North Tonti streets, said Sabrina Richardson, a police public information officer. Jackson died the same night at 11:20 p.m. at University Hospital, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity. Police said Jackson suffered two gunshot wounds. Police said St. Anthony and North Rocheblave has a history of violence and drug activity.
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[edit] 08/07/07 – 1 murder
116) The city's fourth murder in four days occurred Tuesday night in eastern New Orleans. The killing took place about 10 p.m. at Coventry Street and Martin Drive, several blocks southeast of Lakefront Airport. The man was shot, police said.
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[edit] 08/08/07 – 2 murders
117) and 118) At about 10:15 a.m. Wednesday, New Orleans police responded to a shooting in St. Roch. Less than 12 hours later, they would respond to another shooting across town in the Irish Channel. By the end of the day, two New Orleans men, brothers suspected in 14 murders during the past few years, were themselves killed. Their deaths marked the fifth and sixth killings in New Orleans in five days. Wednesday morning police found a 29-year-old man shot to death in the St. Roch neighborhood. The shooting took place before 10:15 a.m. near North Dorgenois and Painter streets, said officer Shereese Harper. Officers found the man inside a sedan with several gunshot wounds to his body. He was dead at the scene, police said. He was later identified as Demond Phillips, 29, of New Orleans, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner. Phillips died from a gunshot wound to his neck. About 10 hours later, police responded to a call of gunfire near Livaudais and Sixth streets in the Irish Channel. Sixth District officers found Michael Phillips, 27, in his Ford Taurus, with gunshot wounds to the torso. He died at the scene. The Phillips brothers are the 116th and 117th homicide victims in the city this year.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/brothers_with_violent_criminal.html#more
[edit] 08/11/07 – 2 murders
119) and 120) A man and a woman were shot to death Saturday morning in the Village de l'Est neighborhood of eastern New Orleans. Luong Nguyen, 38, and Anjelique Vu, 35, were found with gunshot wounds to the head by 7th District police officers responding about 9 a.m. to a report of a shooting at 4942 Savoie Court. Both were pronounced dead at the scene after emergency medical technicians were unable to revive them. Nguyen and Vu, who lived together at the Savoie Court address, owned three companies including a real estate firm, LA Properties of Slidell LLC, formed in May 2004. The company had purchased several properties in the Castle Manor neighborhood of eastern New Orleans.
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[edit] 08/13/07 – 2 murders
121) and 122) Two people were shot fatally and a third wounded Monday night in the Treme neighborhood, New Orleans police said. The triple shooting occurred about 10:40 p.m. at North Villere and St. Philip streets, near Armstrong Park and Joseph A. Craig elementary school, 1423 St. Philip.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/two_killed_one_wounded_in_trem.html
[edit] 08/14/07 – 1 murder
123) A man was fatally shot Tuesday evening in eastern New Orleans, police said. At 7:14 p.m., police responded to a call about gunfire and found the man shot multiple times in the 7700 block of Chef Menteur Highway, said Garry Flot, an information officer for New Orleans police. The man died Tuesday night at a hospital.
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Cornelius Curry, 21, of Metairie, died shortly after 10 p.m., chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. New Orleans police responded to a call of shots fired about 7:15 p.m. and found Curry alive but lying on the ground in the 7700 block of Chef Menteur Highway. He had been shot several times, police said. Officer Garry Flot said a handgun was found on the scene, but said it was too early in the investigation to say if it was the gun used in the shooting.
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[edit] 08/15/07 – 1 murder
124) New Orleans police arrested a 36-year-old man in connection with a knife attack at a Faubourg St. John bar Wednesday night. Eric Traczyk is accused of walking into Pal's and attacking two people. He allegedly approached a man inside the bar, and the would-be victim tried to protect himself, police said. Traczyk then walked up to 30-year-old Nia Robertson, pulled back her head and slashed her throat, according to investigators. She died of her injuries. The suspect was immediately arrested and charged with one count of second-degree murder and one count of attempted murder. Earlier in the day Thursday, police had said it appeared Traczyk had mental problems, but they later backed off from that assessment.
http://www.wdsu.com/news/13908493/detail.html
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A New Orleans woman died Wednesday night during surgery after a man entered a Mid-City bar and slashed her throat and stabbed another patron, police said. The attacker was arrested by police a short distance away.
Neighbors in the area identified one of the two victims as Nia Robertson, 30. The identity of another victim, a 34-year-old man who was injured, is not yet known. Robertson, who was in critical condition with a knife wound to the neck, died during surgery, police said. The man had wounds to the neck and arm that were not life-threatening, police spokeswoman Officer Jonette Williams said. Both were taken to a local hospital.
The alleged attacker, Eric Traczyk, 35, was arrested "about two blocks away," Williams said. Police recovered the knife believed used in the attack on the Traczyk. He was booked with two counts of attempted murder.
The man entered Pal's Bar, 949 N. Rendon St., about 9:15 p.m. and attacked the two people, Williams said. Police hadn't determined a motive late Tuesday night, and had no evidence the attacker knew the victims, Williams said.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/2_stabbed_in_midcity_bar.html
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When the man slashed the man at the bar, he apparently had been lunging toward the landlord, who was sitting on a barstool behind the injured man, whose name police did not release. He then seemed to kill Nia Robertson almost as an afterthought, on his way out the door, the landlord said, speaking on the condition of anonymity. Regulars at Pal's described Robertson as a well-loved Pal's regular, a bubbly 28-year-old who drank champagne. "It fit her personality; she was vibrant and full of life," Novak said. When her killer walked toward her, Robertson had been engrossed in conversation with a friend.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/unprovoked_fatal_stabbing_in_b.html
[edit] 08/17/07 – 2 murders
125) New Orleans Police said they were looking for the gunman in an overnight murder Friday. It happened not long after midnight in the 1000 block of North Salcedo Street. Officers found the body of an unidentified man lying in the street. Police said he’d been shot in the chest and died on the scene.
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When police arrived at the scene just after midnight, they found an 18-year-old suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. Emergency medical technicians pronounced the victim, identified by the coroner's office as Kadeem Wise of New Orleans, dead on the scene.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/man_arrested_in_bayou_st_john.html
126) Percy Read was a good kid, she told reporters assembled by the New Orleans Police Department. He had a bright future. He was about to enter the 10th grade, an important time in every boy's life. "He was killed for no reason at all," she said. On Friday night, about 11 p.m., Percy Read was outside with friends, sitting on a porch in the 2500 block of St. Andrew Street, police said. Read lived in Gentilly, but on Friday night he visited some pals across town. Soon someone, maybe more than one person, walked up to Read and fired several gunshots, Deputy Chief Marlon Defillo said. Read was taken to University Hospital.
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[edit] 08/21/07 – 1 murder
127) Detectives with the New Orleans Police Department said Tuesday they were looking the person(s) responsible for a homicide in the Lower Garden District. The murder took place around 1:10 a.m. in the 800 block of Josephine Street, according to Officer Garry F. Flot, an NOPD spokesman. Sixth District Officers were on patrol when they heard gunshots coming from the area of Annunciation and Josephine streets, Flot said. When they arrived on the scene, they found the victim, a 43-year-old man, lying on the sidewalk with a gunshot wound to his body. The victim was pronounced dead at the scene.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl082107khmdr.5613ceb3.html
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The day began for homicide detectives about 1 a.m.
Officers on patrol in the Lower Garden District heard gunshots and found a 43-year-old man lying on the sidewalk, at the intersection of Annunciation and Josephine Streets, with a gunshot wound, New Orleans Police Officer Garry Flot said. Emergency medical technicians pronounced the man dead at the scene.
The Orleans Parish coroner's office identified him as Freddie Davis III, of New Orleans. He died from a gunshot wound to the back, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the coroner.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/five_shootings_leave_three_dea.html
128) Police logged the next homicide shortly before noon in the St. Anthony neighborhood. A person reported to police that their vehicle in the 5300 block of Wildair Street had been hit by a bullet, said Officer Sabrina Richardson. When officers arrived at the scene they noticed several shell casings alongside the exterior of a nearby FEMA trailer.
Officers eventually entered the locked trailer and found a 48-year-old man lying inside with several gunshot wounds to his body. Medical technicians pronounced Edwin Stewart III, of New Orleans, dead at the scene, where police found casings from an AK-47. It is unclear exactly when Stewart was shot, police said. Investigators have yet to establish a suspect or motive, but are looking into a report of gunshots that was called in about 10 p.m. Monday.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/five_shootings_leave_three_dea.html
129) The victim was shot at the intersection of Green and Monroe streets, amid parked cars and houses buzzing with air conditioning units. He was identified as Corwin Schaffer, 18, of New Orleans. Detectives crouched around the intersection looking for shell casings. Schaffer lay on a stretcher with his arms folded, shirtless and wearing jeans and construction boots. Nearby, a huddle of bereaved family members wept and cried out in anger. A shoeless boy of single-digit age stared at the body on the stretcher. "That's my brother," he repeated over and over. He did not cry. Detectives said Schaffer was released from jail on Thursday, having been paroled until 2009 for narcotics violations. Schaffer was arrested in July 2006 and charged with cocaine possession, according to court records.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/five_shootings_leave_three_dea.html
[edit] 08/22/07 – 2 murders
130) The incident took place around 9 p.m. in the 4800 block of Nighthart Street off of Chef Menteur Highway, according to Officer Jonette Williams, an NOPD spokesperson. Investigators learned that six people--both men and women--were living inside together at that location when three men with weapons entered the home and made them lie on the ground. Williams said one of the victims tried to grab a gun from the suspects and was shot in the back – police did not release his identity but described him as a 42-year-old Hispanic male. He was taken to a local hospital where he later died.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl082207jbrobberyattempt.5ebdb5c1.html
131) In the homicide, a 29-year-old man was shot several times in his car in front of his house in the 1200 block of Gallier Street, just north of St. Claude Avenue, about 9 p.m., police said. He was driven to University Hospital by his father . He died on arrival at the hospital, police said. Police said a suspect surrendered in the shooting later Wednesday night. Police said the shooting was drug-related.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/one_killed_four_wounded_in_thr.html
[edit] 08/23/07 – 1 murder
132) A 17-year-old boy, dead of an apparent gunshot wound, was found on a sidewalk in the Hollygrove neighborhood Thursday night, police said. Police had no suspect, witnesses or motive in the shooting, police spokesman Officer Garry Flot said. Second District police responded to a report shortly after 8:45 p.m. of a man shot and found the teen in the 2800 block of Monroe Street, Flot said. He had been shot several times and died on the scene, police said. Officers said he was a neighborhood resident, but they were withholding his name until his relatives are notified.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/17yearold_killed_in_hollygrove.html
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A 17-year-old boy killed Thursday night in the Hollygrove neighborhood was shot 16 times, including some from point-blank range, police said. The teen was identified Friday as Perry L. Oliver by John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner's office. Police said he lived with his mother on General Pershing Street in the Broadmoor neighborhood. A second Hollygrove shooting in which two men were wounded about two hours later "has not been linked to the earlier shooting at this time," one officer said. Shortly after 8:45 p.m., 2nd District police responded to a report of a man shot and found Oliver lying in the 2800 block of Monroe Street, officer Garry Flot said. He had been shot at least three times in the head and had more than a dozen other wounds, police said. Paramedics pronounced him dead on the scene, police said. Officers said he had parked his all-terrain bike in a driveway across the street and was talking with two or three young women when one or more men walked up and shot him. Based on casings found at the scene, it appeared the killer or killers might have shot at him from across the street initially, then walked toward him and fired the last few shots at close range. Oliver fell dead on the sidewalk, and the killer or killers fled. One bullet shattered a window in a neighbor's SUV parked nearby, and another struck a house just above the front mail-box and lodged in the wall, a resident of the house said. The resident, who asked that her name not be published, said she was on the telephone when she heard what sounded like firecrackers, "about 12 to 15 times." Officers said there were 19 bullet casings on the scene. Oliver has been arrested on a drug possession charge in the same neighborhood where he was shot. Before Hurricane Katrina, his aunt had lived on Leonidas Street around the corner from where he died. She and her family evacuated before the storm, and their house has been unoccupied since. It is being renovated, neighbors said. One neighbor who lived near the aunt's home said he had seen the boy in the neighborhood recently. Police had no suspects, witnesses or motive in the shooting, Flot said.
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[edit] 08/24/07 – 4 murders (1 victim died 09/01/07)
133) A 25-year-old New Orleans man was shot to death in the 7th Ward Friday night, New Orleans police said. The man's name was not released by police. First District officers responding to a report of a shooting shortly after 7:15 p.m. found the man lying in the middle of the street in the 2000 block of North Prieur Street, near Touro Street. He was pronounced dead the scene. A cell phone that rang intermittently lay on the sidewalk about 40 feet from the body. A New Orleans police crime lab technician put the phone into an evidence bag. Detectives had no suspect or motive Friday night, said police spokeswoman Officer Jonette Williams.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/08/man_killed_in_7th_ward_shootin.html
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Donald Gullage, 25, of New Orleans, was killed Friday about 7:15 p.m. in the 2000 block of North Prieur Street near Touro Street in the 7th Ward, police said. Gullage died at the scene, northwest of North Claiborne and Elysian Fields avenues, of multiple gunshot wounds, ,said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released Gullage's identity Saturday. http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1188108274271940.xml&coll=1
134) and 135) Two people were shot to death and five others injured in an apparent barrage of gunfire late Friday night in eastern New Orleans, just a block from where a Vietnamese couple was slain in their home two weeks ago, New Orleans police said The victims' names were not released by police, who did not immediately have any suspects. Police suspected the killings resulted from a botched armed robbery.
Seventh District officers responded around 11:15 p.m. to the report of a shooting in the 4800 block of Savoie Court, on the eastern edge of the Village de l'Est subdivision just west of the Michoud Assembly Facility. They found seven adults suffering from apparent gunshot wounds.
Two victims were pronounced dead on scene, two victims were listed in critical condition and three people suffered injuries that were not life-threatening, police said.
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Kong Kham Vongvilay, 44, was dead at the scene with a gunshot wound to his head, according to the coroner's office. She lived at the residence and was known by the nickname Connie. Wisan Inthamat, 36, died from several gunshot wounds. Inthamat was visiting New Orleans from Thailand. http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/neworleans/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1188283366190050.xml&coll=1
136) A man who was shot during a brutal home invasion in eastern New Orleans on Aug. 24 has died, the Orleans Parish coroner's office said Sunday. Boon Roopmoh, 48, is the third person to die as a result of the attack in the 4800 block of Savoie Court. He was one of seven people who were forced by two gunmen into a house in the Village de l'Est neighborhood where they were robbed and shot. They had been sitting under a carport. Roopmoh died Saturday of complications from a gunshot wound to the head after more than a week at University Hospital, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity.
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[edit] 08/26/07 – 1 murder
137) A 28-year-old man was fatally shot in eastern New Orleans on Sunday night, the latest in a rash of killings in the sparsely populated area. The murder capped off a three-day period marred by a home invasion and shooting Friday night in which seven people were shot; two people died and two others were critically wounded. On Sunday, a New Orleans police officer found a man lying face-up inside his apartment in the 14700 block of Chef Menteur Highway about 10 p.m., officer Jonette Williams said. The man had gunshots wounds to his face and head. He was later identified as Louis Heim, 28, of New Orleans, according to John Gagliano, chief investigator for the Orleans Parish coroner.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1188283366190050.xml&coll=1
[edit] 08/28/07 – 1 murder
138) According to police, the shooting took place around 9:30 a.m. at the corner of Humanity and Feliciana streets. Officers found the victim lying in the street with a gunshot wound to his head and pronounced him dead at the scene. The victim was not carrying identification, preventing police from making a positive ID.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl082807khdesiremdr.7b4dc46b.html
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The Orleans Parish coroner's office has released the identity of a man who was shot to death Tuesday in the 9th Ward. Brandon Snowton, 28, of New Orleans, was shot shortly before 10 a.m. at Felicity and Humanity streets, in the sparsely populated, flood-ravaged Desire neighborhood, police said. He died at the scene. Snowton died of multiple gunshot wounds, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released the identity Friday. http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-23/1188626992165060.xml&coll=1
[edit] 09/03/07 – 1 murder
139) Today, members of the New Orleans Police Department are investigating the shooting death of a 27-year-old, local male, whose identity is being withheld pending notification of family members. The offense occurred shortly after 2:00P.M.., in the 8600 block of Belfast Street.
According to investigators, Second District officers responded to a call of a “male downâ€. Upon their arrival at the location, they found the victim lying in the street suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the head and body. Emergency medical technicians arrived on the scene and pronounced the victim dead.
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A man who was shot dead in Hollygrove on Monday has been identified by the Orleans Parish coroner's office. Carnell Wallis, 27, of New Orleans, was shot about 2 p.m. in the 8600 block of Belfast Street, between Leonidas and Monroe streets, said Sabrina Richardson, a public information officer for New Orleans police. Wallis was dead at the scene, several blocks north of South Claiborne and South Carrollton avenues, police said. An autopsy showed Wallis suffered several gunshot wounds, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released the identity.
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[edit] 09/06/07 – 1 murder
140) A 25-year-old New Orleans man was found dead late Wednesday in a car in eastern New Orleans. Police received a report of gunfire shortly before midnight near the intersection of Hayne Boulevard and Trapier Avenue, said Sgt. Joe Narcisse, a New Orleans Police Department spokesman. Officers found the man, later identified as Thomas Dominick, sitting in a black Nissan Sentra. He was dead at the scene, police said. The Orleans Parish coroner's office said Dominick died from a single gunshot wound to his head.
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[edit] 09/11/07 – 2 murders
141) A 21-year-old man was shot and killed Tuesday night in the Broadmoor neighborhood, according to New Orleans police. The shooting took place about 10:35 p.m. in the 3600 block of Louisiana Avenue Parkway. Second District patrol officers found Larry Gooden lying on the sidewalk with several gunshot wounds. Gooden was dead on arrival at a local hospital, according to John Gagliano of the Orleans Parish coroner's office.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/118966408791610.xml&coll=1
142) New Orleans police are investigating the shooting death of a man dressed in women's clothing whose body was found Tuesday morning in the 7th Ward. Patrol officers responded shortly before 8 a.m. to a call reporting a body in the 2400 block of New Orleans Street. They found a man on the ground with gunshot wounds, according to a news release. The man, whose identity was not released, was in the rear yard of an abandoned home. He was pronounced dead at the scene, police said. The victim was believed to have been dead for 12 to 30 hours, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. He died of gunshot wounds of the head and back. Gagliano said the man appeared to be 20 to 25. He was 5-foot-7 and weighed 145 pounds. He had all his teeth, including a gold tooth on the upper right area of his mouth. He was light complexioned. The victim had these tattoos: "Ms. Coco," on the left thigh; a drawing of a naked woman on the left inner forearm; "Big Mike," on the outer left upper arm; "Fatt" or "Fatty," on the left arm; "Darryl," on the left wrist; "Belinda," on the left hand; a butterfly on the back of the left shoulder; "B," in the middle of the back; and "Queen," on one buttock, and "B@#$HV," or "B@#$HY," on the other buttock. He wore a long blond wig, makeup, a short blue skirt, three tanktops and gold shoes.
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A man who was found shot to death Tuesday in the 7th Ward has been identified as Gerald Howard, the Orleans Parish coroner's office said. Howard, 29, of New Orleans was found dead Tuesday shortly before 8 a.m. in the 2400 block of New Orleans Street. Police said they answered a call about a body and found Howard in the back yard of an abandoned home. He was believed to have been dead for 12 to 30 hours. An autopsy showed he had multiple gunshot wounds to the head and back, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity Friday. He said Howard was identified by his mother and his sister after someone recognized his description in the newspaper.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1189838855326110.xml&coll=1
[edit] 09/15/07 – 1 murder
143) A man was shot and killed Saturday morning in Central City, according to the New Orleans Police department. Officers responded shorted before 7 a.m. to a report of male down in a vacant lot in the 2300 block of South Roman Street, near Jackson Avenue, officer Jonette Williams said in a prepared statement. They found a 40-year-old male shot several times in the torso. He was pronounced dead at the scene. The victim's name is being withheld until relatives can be contacted. Police said they have no motive or suspect.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/man_killed_saturday_in_central.html
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Responding to a call shortly before 7 a.m., New Orleans police found a body with several gunshot wounds in the torso, officer Jonette Williams said. The coroner's office identified the victim as Larry Butler Jr., 40, of New Orleans. Butler's body was lying in an overgrown lot surrounded by vacant homes in the 2300 block of South Roman Street. The neighborhood appeared sparsely populated. Police said they had no motive or suspect. Although the Central City neighborhood has been the scene of numerous killings this year, most occurred on the river side of South Claiborne Avenue. Before Saturday, two killings this year had been reported on the lake side of Claiborne, police said.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1189923406135210.xml&coll=1
[edit] 09/16/07 – 2 murders
144) A man was killed shortly after midnight in Algiers, the New Orleans Police Department reported. Fourth District police officers responded to a call of gunfire in the 1200 block of Merrill Street and found the man's body in a grassy area in front of a home. Thee man, who had apparent gunshot wounds to the head, was pronounced dead on the scene, said Officer Jonette Williams, NOPD spokeswoman.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/a_man_was_killed_shortly.html
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Phillip A. Carmouche Jr., 29, of New Orleans, was killed in Algiers shortly after midnight, and an unidentified man was found shot to death in the Upper 9th Ward about 7 a.m., said Officer Jonette Williams, NOPD spokeswoman. In the Algiers incident, 4th District police officers responded to a call of gunfire in the 1200 block of Merrill Street and found Carmouche's body in a grassy area in front of a home. He was pronounced dead on the scene, Williams said.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/a_man_was_killed_shortly.html
145) In the later shooting, 5th District officers responding to a call found the unidentified man lying in the rear yard of a house in the 3400 block of Urquhart Street. The man, who appeared to have been dead for three or four hours, suffered gunshot wounds to the back and head, Gagliano said. He said the man appeared to be 25 to 30. He was 5 feet 9 inches tall and wore blue jean shorts and a white shirt. He had these tattoos: on the neck, "$incere"; on the right arm, "Sunny," and a gravestone with a cross over what appeared to be "HA/PISKSTA"; on the left arm, "Cide," and praying hands holding a rosary and a cross amid the words, "Only God can judge me."
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/a_man_was_killed_shortly.html
[edit] 09/17/07 – 1 murder
146) A 28-year-old New Orleans man was gunned down early Monday morning in an Upper Ninth Ward neighborhood, police said. According to Officer Jonette Williams, an NOPD spokesperson, the murder took place shortly before 4 a.m. in the 4300 block of North Rampart Street. Fifth District officers responded to calls of gunfire in the area and when they arrived found the victim lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the stomach, Williams said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives identified five suspects in the murder, Williams said. They were described as five African-American men wearing baseball caps, polo shirts with dreadlock hairstyles. The suspects were driving either a white Pontiac Bonnaville or G6, and might have followed the victim from a nightclub in the 800 block of North Claiborne Avenue.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl091707khninthwardmdr.e1503b35.html
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The 28-year-old victim, later identified as Aaron Harvey of New Orleans, and his friend argued with several other men. The dispute continued outside the club. Harvey and his friend drove away, but the other group followed them in a white vehicle, according to police records. The chase made its way into the Bywater and gunfire erupted in the 4300 block of North Rampart Street, according to police. Officers found the victim lying in the street with a gunshot wound to the back.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1190096785259130.xml&coll=1&thispage=1
[edit] 09/18/07 – 1 murder
147) A pall of grief descended on a block of older homes in the 9th Ward where a 19-year-old man was shot to death Tuesday. Mario Anthony Green's mother cried inconsolably in the 1200 block of Louisa Street. She sat on the ground at the corner of Urquhart Street. At the other end of the block, near Marais Street, her son lay dead on the porch of a double residence. A little girl held one arm around the sobbing woman's neck, and police chaplain Howard Gillette comforted her. Another woman arrived, kneeled next to her, and held her in an extended hug. Earlier, Mayor Ray Nagin went to the scene and comforted the woman, speaking to her as she sat next to a National Guard police car two blocks north of St. Claude Avenue. Later, the mother, identified by bystanders as Wendy Green, was escorted by a group of people to a car in the next block alongside the imposing wall of St. Vincent De Paul Cemetery No. 1. About 5:30 p.m., police received a call reporting that a male had been shot, said Garry Flot, a police information officer. Officers found Green, a New Orleans resident, on the porch, where he was pronounced dead. He had multiple gunshot wounds. "He was so nice," a woman said of Green. "My niece is his sister-in-law. He was so sweet. I mean he had more respect than anybody. I'm hurting for him. He used to call me auntee. He was like a son to me." The sister-in-law said Green's nickname was "Foots." The women did not want their names published. "He was my friend," a little girl said. An autopsy will be performed today, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity. The block where Green was killed was of a bygone style. Houses were in varying states of repair. The house near Green's grieving mother had fire damage, while a nicely kept home sported gingerbread brackets. A pile of debris sat in front of another house that was being repaired. Detective Cyril Evans is investigating. Green was gunned down several blocks from another killing that occurred Sunday. Calvin Brumfield, 25, of New Orleans was found shot to death about 7 a.m. in the backyard of a house in the 3400 block of Urquhart. He appeared to have been dead for several hours.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1190183103232530.xml&coll=1
[edit] 09/20/07 – 1 murder
148) It happened just before 3:30 a.m. at a trailer park in the 15000 block of Chef Menteur Highway, according to authorities. Police said they found a 25-year-old man shot several times in the chest. The victim was rushed to a local hospital where he later died. Authorities did not identify a suspect or motive just yet, but said the trailer park does have a history with narcotics.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl092007khmurdernoeast.f090be55.html
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Jason Snyder, 25, was found shortly before 3:30 a.m. in the 15300 block of Chef Menteur Highway near Industrial Parkway. A caller who saw the victim directed police to a point a half mile east of Old Gentilly Road. Officers found Snyder wounded there He was dead on arrival at Tulane University Hospital, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity. He said Snyder suffered multiple gunshot wounds. Snyder had been living in New Orleans, but reportedly was from Clayton.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1190442083208060.xml&coll=1
[edit] 09/25/07 – 1 murder
149) A man shot Tuesday in Algiers died Friday of his wounds, the Orleans Parish coroner's office said. Perry Watts, 26, of Algiers, was found shot early Tuesday in the 3300 block of De Armas Street in the McClendonville neighborhood, New Orleans police said. Officers said they heard gunfire shortly before 1 a.m. As they searched the area, a resident told them there was a shooting victim on De Armas, several blocks north of Gen. Meyer Avenue. The man, later identified as Watts, was taken to University Hospital. He died Friday at 8:34 p.m. of complications from gunshot wounds to the abdomen, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released Watts' identity.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/119113437197070.xml&coll=1
[edit] 09/27/07 – 1 murder
150) After a week-long lull, New Orleans murder rate jumped another notch when police were called to Algiers shortly before 8 p.m. Thursday and found a 24-year-old New Orleans man in a silver Pontiac Grand Prix fatally shot in the head. And the violence spilled over to the crowd that gathered at the shooting scene, with police forced to break up several fights that broke out among the onlookers. The shooting victim's identity wasn't immediately available. Medics from New Orleans EMS were called to the scene at Tullis Drive and Tasha Place in the Cutoff neighborhood on the West Bank and pronounced the man dead, said EMS spokesman Jeb Tate. No arrest has been made in the shooting, NOPD spokesman Sgt. Joe Narcisse said late Thursday night. He said detectives were still trying to identify a suspect and a motive
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/09/man_slain_in_algiers_thursday.html
Lionel J. Hills, 23, of Algiers, was found in a Pontiac Grand Prix shortly before 8 p.m. at Tullis Drive and Tasha Place, New Orleans police said. He had been shot once in his head, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity. Hills was dead at the scene near Lancaster Street, about a half-mile south of Gen. Meyer Avenue in the Cutoff neighborhood, police said.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/119107963875580.xml&coll=1
[edit] 09/30/07 – 1 murder
151) An 18-year-old man was shot to death and another was injured Sunday morning in the West Carrollton neighborhood, New Orleans police said. Warren Martin of New Orleans was pronounced dead at the scene in the 1400 block of Monroe Street, between Willow and Jeannette streets, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. Shortly after 11 a.m., Second District officers responding to a report that a man had been shot found Martin lying on the ground with an apparent gunshot wound to the head, said Officer Shereese Harper, a police spokeswoman. The second victim, also 18, of New Orleans, suffered a gunshot wound to the foot but refused medical treatment, Harper said. Gagliano, who released Martin's identity, said Martin suffered multiple gunshot wounds. An autopsy will be performed today.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1191218982250290.xml&coll=1
[edit] 10/01/07 – 1 murder
152) Officers responding around 11:30 p.m. to a report of gunshots found the man lying in the street in the 13500 block of North Nemours Street, said Officer Sabrina Richardson. The victim, whose identity has not been released, had been shot several times, police said. He was pronounced dead at the scene. No further details were available. He is at least the 154th person murdered this year in New Orleans.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/man_killed_late_monday_night_i.html
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Dwayne Landry, 25, of New Orleans, died in the 13500 block of North Nemours Street, in Village de l'Est. An autopsy showed Landry was shot twice in the head, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano. Shortly before 11:30 p.m., officers responded to a call about a shooting and found Landry wounded several blocks northeast of Michoud Boulevard and Dwyer Road, said Sabrina Richardson, a Police Department public information officer. Landry was at least the 154th person murdered in New Orleans this year.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1191392007129840.xml&coll=1
[edit] 10/04/07 – 1 murder
153) Don Smith, 45, of New Orleans, was found dead Thursday about 8 p.m. in an unoccupied house in the 4100 block of N. Miro St. in the 9th Ward, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. New Orleans police officers responded to a call about a man lying on the floor of a gutted house and found Smith, Garry Flot, a public information officer for police, said. At the time, the cause of death was undetermined, Flot said. But on Friday, an autopsy revealed a gunshot wound to the back of his head, prompting Coroner Frank Minyard to classify the death a homicide.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-24/119165250943420.xml&coll=1
[edit] 10/05/07 – 1 murder
154) A man was found shot to death in New Orleans East overnight Thursday. Police said the man's body was found on the 6700 block of Bundy Road. His name hasn't been released. So far, a suspect hasn't been identified in the case.
http://www.wdsu.com/news/14278452/detail.html
In the second killing, a man was shot to death early Friday in eastern New Orleans. Police officers responding to a report of gunshots about 1:35 a.m. found Demetrius Gooden, 33, of New Orleans, dead in the 6700 block of Bundy Road, according to a police incident log. Gooden had been shot once in the abdomen, said Gagliano, who released his identity.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-24/119165250943420.xml&coll=1
[edit] 10/06/07 – 1 murder
155) A 23-year-old New Orleans man was shot and killed Saturday morning in the 9th Ward, New Orleans police said. The name of the victim is being withheld until family members can be notified. Police did not immediately have a motive or any suspects. Police said the shooting happened at about 11 a.m. in the back parking lot of an apartment complex at the corner of Congress and Villere streets in the St. Claude neighborhood. Fifth District officers responding to a call of a man shot found the victim lying on the ground suffering from multiple gunshot wounds. They found a loaded hand gun and drugs at the scene. Paramedics pronounced the victim dead at the scene. Though he was not identified, police said the victim had just been released from jail and was on parole for manslaughter.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/man_shot_dead_in_9th_ward.html
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Townsend Bennett, 23, of New Orleans, was on parole for manslaughter, said Garry Flot, a police public information officer. Officers responding about 11 a.m. to a call said they found Bennett wounded in a rear parking area of an apartment complex at Congress and North Villere streets. He died at the scene, in the 1400 block of Congress. An autopsy showed Bennett had suffered gunshot wounds, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. Police said they were trying to find the owner of a loaded gun and narcotics found at the scene.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-24/119173905934850.xml&coll=1
[edit] 10/10/07 – 1 murder
156) A 37-year-old man was fatally shot this morning in the middle of a Central City street, police said. The victim, whose identity was not released, was shot shortly after 11 a.m. near the intersection of South Saratoga and Erato Streets, said Officer Jonette Williams. The man had been shot several times and was found lying face-down in the street. He was pronounced dead on the scene. Several grieving relatives gathered nearby. The motive is unclear.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/man_killed_wednesday_morning_i.html
[edit] 10/13/07 – 2 murders
157) An 18-year-old man was fatally shot early Saturday in the area of South Galvez and Poydras streets, the Orleans Parish coroner's office said. Gregory Hayes, of New Orleans, died at 5:15 a.m. at University Hospital of a gunshot wound to the chest, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. He said records showed Hayes was transported to the hospital about 4 a.m. from South Johnson and Perdido streets.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1192344969282860.xml&coll=1
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Later that morning, Gregory Hayes, who was on Bienville Street near the Iberville housing development, died at University Hospital. Police say the 18-year-old was shot near the housing complex, but was taken to the hospital from South Johnson and Perdido streets.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/weekend_violence_kills_six_in.html
158) Later Saturday, the city recorded another slaying. About 9:25 p.m., someone was found fatally wounded at Magazine and Josephine streets in the Lower Garden District, said Sgt. Joe Narcisse, a police public information officer. Further details were not immediately available.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/metro/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1192344969282860.xml&coll=1
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A New Orleans man killed in a Saturday night shooting in the Irish Channel has been identified as 19-year-old Charles Miller. Shortly after 9 p.m., Miller's brother received a phone call from someone who said Miller had been shot near Annunciation and Philip streets, according to Sgt. Joe Narcisse, spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department.
The brother, whom police have not identified, drove to the area and found Miller suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, police said. Placing Miller in his car, the brother began driving toward a hospital when he flagged down an officer at Magazine and Josephine streets. Emergency medical technicians were called to the scene but he was pronounced dead, Narcisse said.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/victim_in_channel_shooting_ide.html#more
[edit] 10/14/07 – 3 murders
159) Eddie Bernard, 23, of Algiers was shot shortly after 11 a.m. in the 2900 block of Dryades Street, police spokesman Sgt. Joe Narcisse said. He said Bernard was shot in the back of the head. Bernard was pronounced dead at 11:58 a.m., minutes after he was taken to University Hospital by the New Orleans Emergency Medical Service, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/3_fatally_shot_in_separate_no.html
160) Later Sunday, a New Orleans man was shot in the 2500 block of Danneel Street. The man was shot in the face shortly before 3 p.m., Narcisse said. His name was withheld while attempts were made to notify his relatives. The man was pronounced dead at 3:34 p.m., shortly after EMS took him to University.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/3_fatally_shot_in_separate_no.html
161) Gentilly was the scene of the third slaying. A woman was found shot about 5 p.m. in the 1400 block of Mandolin Street, between Paris and St. Bernard avenues. The victim died in a service alley, Narcisse said. She appeared to have been dead for several hours before she was found, Gagliano said.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/3_fatally_shot_in_separate_no.html
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Meanwhile, one of the other weekend victims, a woman who was found shot to death Sunday in Gentilly, was identified Tuesday by police and the coroner's office as an 18-year-old from Houston. Carmen Leona Reese was found dead Sunday about 5 p.m. in a service alley in the 1400 block of Mandolin Street, between Paris and St. Bernard avenues, by someone from that neighborhood, New Orleans police said. The coroner's office said she appeared to have been dead for several hours. An autopsy showed she suffered gunshot wounds. Police developed information about Reese's identity, and the coroner's office located Reese's mother in Houston and notified her, chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano said. He said Reese had lived in New Orleans since June and was working here.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1192603128244350.xml&coll=1
[edit] 10/15/07 – 1 murder
162) The most recent murder occurred Monday morning near Armstrong Park in the 1400 block of Bienville Street. Detectives said a person was shot and killed at that location around 3:30 a.m.
http://www.wwltv.com/local/stories/wwl101407tpshootings.16e884466.html
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Monday morning brought the 163rd killing of the year, when police at 3:25 a.m. found a 32-year-old man dead in the courtyard of the Iberville housing complex. Cedrick Brooks was killed by one gunshot to his back, the coroner's office said.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/weekend_violence_kills_six_in.html
[edit] 10/16/07 – 1 murder
163) A 19-year-old New Orleans man was shot to death on an Irish Channel street on Tuesday night. Police believe the shooting may be linked to a fistfight he was involved in earlier Tuesday night a few blocks away. The man's name was temporarily withheld pending notification of his family, but officers said he lived within a few blocks of the scene. Sixth District officers responded to a report of gunfire and found the man lying in the 800 block of First Street, between Annunciation and Laurel streets. He died there about 7:45 p.m. with gunshot wounds. Police found 10 bullet casings in the street. Witnesses told police they saw four armed men running from the scene toward downtown on Laurel, police said. Investigators learned that the victim had been in a fistfight at Third and Chippewa streets not long before the shooting.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-24/1192603128244350.xml&coll=1
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The coroner's office on Wednesday released the name of a man shot to death Tuesday night in the Irish Channel. Waldon Howard, 19, of New Orleans was shot several times shortly before 8 p.m. and died in the 800 block of First Street, said John Gagliano, chief investigator for the New Orleans coroner's office.
http://www.nola.com/news/t-p/frontpage/index.ssf?/base/news-24/119269183437720.xml&coll=1
[edit] 10/17/07 – 1 murder
164) New Orleans police were investigating a shooting in Algiers Wednesday night that left one person dead. Few details were available late Wednesday, but police officers at the scene confirmed that a man was dead at the Holly Park apartments in the 3300 block of Preston Place. NOPD spokeswoman Officer Jonette Williams said police were called to the two-story, brick apartment complex at about 9:15 p.m., responding to reports of a man shot on the stairwell. Police found the victim, who was not identified, dead at the scene with multiple gunshot wounds. Williams said police had no motive or suspects.
http://blog.nola.com/times-picayune/2007/10/police_investigate_fatal_shoot.html
[edit] Original Proposal by Ray Shea
The idea, as has been discussed, is to provide a place to "humanize" all victims of murder in New Orleans. Give every single one of them the same star treatment that was afforded to Helen Hill and Dinerral Shavers. Even if they were shot down with a gun in their hand and crack in their pocket, there is a story there, there is some history that we can tell that might explain how and when that person was lost to the community.
Alan has offered to host the site as part of ThinkNOLA. He has also connected me with Pastor Kelly O'Connor, who is excited about the idea and who will possibly be able to facilitate getting us access to the victim's families. He has also described the project to Rev. Raphael and reports that the response has been positive.
I had not thought about the "countdown" part of it as suggested by Dambala, and I'm not sure how I feel about it. My intent was that this site would not contain anything overtly political, but that the politics would be implicit, i.e., the names and pictures and bios would speak for themselves. We can discuss.
So, my rough take on we need to get this thing going, not necessarily in any particular order:
1. A name for the site. Something dignified and something that will resonate with all of the various communities affected. I like Care Forgot.
2. A site design. We need to decide basic organization...will it be bloglike (dated posts, reverse chronological order) or one page per person, etc, etc. And a look-and-feel. I opt for plain look and feel from the beginning, just a simple layout and color schema and maybe a logo and picture at the top. The content is the main thing, we can always dick with how it looks later. My web design skills are for shit, and Alan is probably too swamped to do too much, so are either one of you skilled in this area?
3. Some mockup pages for 2 or 3 victims. This gives us something we can show Pastor Kelly which allows him to visualize what we are doing and which gets him on board. We can easily do pages for Dinerral and Helen with information and pictures at hand; however, I fear we will send the wrong message if those are the first two we do. But most of the other victims, we don't have enough material to do the page justice. Sort of a chicken-and-egg problem, but we can get past it somehow.
4. Images. Dambala offers video services. It would be nice to be able to take nice pictures of the people we meet. Also we'd need a scanner for family photos; I have a scanner at home, but a portable scanner (if anybody has one) would be rockin' because then we wouldn't have to convince somebody to let us borrow their photos, we could just scan them on the spot.
5. A sit-down with Pastor Kelly when we've got a rough cut of something to show him. At which point we seek his counsel on how to approach the families.
I've been slow to get this project off the ground because I'm been tackling it myself and it's always seemed to huge and too scary when I look at it. With several people involved, I think it becomes doable and extremely worthy.
