Posted on 06/17/2006 11:17:49 AM PDT by LdSentinal
NEW ORLEANS - Five people ranging in age from 16 to 19 were killed in a street shooting early Saturday, the most violent crime reported in this slowly repopulating city since Hurricane Katrina hit last August.
All were believed to have been gunned down while inside a sport utility vehicle that was found rammed against a utility pole in the Central City neighborhood just outside the central business district.
Authorities said they were looking for one or more suspects but did not elaborate.
Capt. John Bryson said police think the shootings were either drug-related or some type of retaliation attack.
"I think the motivation we're looking at is pretty obvious," he said. "Somebody wanted them dead."
Bryson said he could not remember the last time this many people were killed in once incident — before or after Katrina. "I can't remember five," he said.
Four of the victims — a 16-year-old, a 17-year-old and two 19-year-olds — died at the scene. Another 19-year-old, believed to be the brother of the youngest victim, died later at a hospital, police said.
There was no immediate word if any of the victims had been armed. Their identities were not immediately released.
I see than gangs are fully in control in NOLA again...
That's a bit unfair, uptown has remained as it's always been. You don't see this shootouts in rich areas, now do you. Haven't seen any news of crime among the ruins of Lakeview either, or the ruins of St. Bernard Parish. The crimes are all happening in what were in the former New Orleans, ghettoes often capped off by housing projects. It's not happening in the nice areas, so it's unfair to judge the whole city based by what people who used to live in the projects are currently doing.
Nutty Nagin is getting his "chocolate city" back, with a little strawberry sauce spread over the corpses for flavor..
Semper Fi
Boy, you can't put anything over on Capt. Bryson!
Well at least the situation in Houston is getting better.
The Second Amendment enables Darwin. An armed society is a polite society. Democracy is the rule of fools by fools.
Reduce law enforcement presence.
Ahem, I think that's the whole point of what we're saying.
If the dems had their way the whole USA would be one NOLA-like cesspool.
if only FEMA had arrived sooner....
Did they even leave?
I'd cut him some slack. He did say this to "journalists". You could keeping hitting what passes for "journalists"
nowadays over the head with reality and facts till the end of time, and it still wouldn't sink in.
People's [and their doings'] visibility and importance in determining the character and "physiognomy" of a place need not, and do not, correspond to their numbers. Thus fairness has nothing to do with it.
This shooting was [not necessarily fairly - and it does not matter] taken as adequately representing the essence of "new orleanity". Al Capone was not Chicago, either.
I too have noticed an increase in roving gangs of Scandinavians shooting up our cities in a desperate plea for jobs, educational oportunities and free lutefisk for oppressed minorities. We need to be more sensitive.
No, the insuation that I have picked up is, all of New Orleans was a ghetto, when it was not. That 30% white population, almost none of that was poor. New Orleans before the storm had the distinction of being America's only major city with more people in private school than public school. The white areas of New Orleans tended to be more affluent than white areas in the metro at large, because people had extra expenses there they wouldn't in the suburbs. Many of those houses in Lakeview were fairly small, and you could get more for your money in the burbs, but people chose to live there because they wanted to be close to work, they could afford to send their kids to Catholic school, and often times, they had long family ties to the area. When we lived there, you could go into certain areas, and find that people were all somehow extended family, it was really close-knit.
What I have a problem with is when the whole city of New Orleans is judged by the actions of some trash out in the projects who do not serve as a representation of the whole city. It still costs you an arm and a leg to live in the Quarter, and living in Uptown has not really been all that cheap. In Uptown too, you find generation after generation who continously make a home there, and they are completely a world apart from the vagabonds you'd see walking around if you went too far in the wrong direction down Desire Street.
Looks like the barbarians have moved back in.
And I thought they were all in Houston!
OH- and many in Lakeview are scared! There is no way Lakeview will be allowed to remain all white and all upper class. NO way. When big plots of land are bought by the government- there WILL be subsidized housing.
I'm surprised Jesse's group isn't buying property- or maybe they are an no one knows it yet. Section 8 WILL be in Lakeview. And it's odd- you'd think that putting poor blacks into a neighborhood that was 12ft under water would be considered dangerous!
NOTHING- and I mean NOTHING will ever be as it was in N.O.- except the 'culture'- which is what the shooting was about.
The tribal , criminal culture is back.
The only hope for N.O. is to make it a timeshare only, tourist destination/resort. Closed 6 months of every year. Then only the tourist areas would be needed and a shanty town of low-income workers to keep it running. The very rich can have one of many homes here, and the moderately rich can have corporate apts and temporary residences for 'Fest' times and Mardi Gras.
There will be NO middle class- IF one more storm doesn't wash everything into the Gulf once and for all. New Orleans is dead- it's just that the life support hasn't been turned off yet.
I wonder if this is a case of home-grown gangbangers coming home and being confronted by Hispanic gang members. It's not just roofers and sheetrock workers coming into New Orleans...
Ouch! I like that one. Maybe it will stick.
I'm waiting for someone to post a picture of a possible suspect.
Looter guy.
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