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.
Pardon- but there is a lot of crime in Lakeview-and Uptown.
Looters are stealing everything they can out of houses being repaired. The usual criminals can't carjack or hold up any residents of Lakeview-because they're GONE. Criminals go where there are people to rob. Ask around the Marigny!
And Uptown is a lot of fancy houses on the Avenue, behind which are some of the worst neighborhoods imaginable. My nephew is an EMT, he lives uptown. Thought it was no big deal. Now he's planning to get out. Nothing like waking up to a dead body in front of your door- and bullet holes in your house- to really ruin that 'Garden District' fantasy.
I think I've seen them too. Do they shout something that sounds like "Uf-da"?
As in many cities, the good parts of New Orleans are truly excellent. And as in many cities, the bad parts of New Orleans are truly awful. The comments you find so offensive reflect the disappointment of some, including me, that NO's trash element is returning. I had hoped -- and still hope -- that most of the low-lying sections (and therefore cheapest and most rundown) will not be rebuilt, and that the remaining properties will be too expensive (due to scarcity) for the worst of NO's former population to live in. That would be Katina's silver lining.
The Brady Bunch will count these dead hooligans as "children" killed by guns.
"As in many cities, the good parts of New Orleans are truly excellent. And as in many cities, the bad parts of New Orleans are truly awful. The comments you find so offensive reflect the disappointment of some, including me, that NO's trash element is returning. I had hoped -- and still hope -- that most of the low-lying sections (and therefore cheapest and most rundown) will not be rebuilt, and that the remaining properties will be too expensive (due to scarcity) for the worst of NO's former population to live in. That would be Katina's silver lining."
See, I do agree with that, and I think in the end, that's what's going to happen. No matter what Nagin told all the evacuees to get their votes, demolitions are still proceeding in the ghetto areas, people who voted for him are probably returning home right now to find he had their house bulldozed. I actually trust Nagin more than Landrieu on this, cause Nagin to a degree, has always been more tuned into the wishes of the city's affluent than Landrieu's have. I think Landrieu would have made a serious effort to bring every evacuee home because that would have suited his future political ambitions of winning higher statewide office, something hindered when his old base is in Houston and Atlanta. I do think some evacuees will return, but New Orleans won't go back to what it was before
Please don't take this the wrong way, but take what your saying and magnify it and you get all of Louisiana.
I am originally from the Lake Charles area. My whole life people who knew I was from Louisiana would ask me when they heard something about NOLA. It was always bad. Always.
Nobody outside of LA has any clue about the rest of the state. Maybe 25% have heard or Shreveport or Baton Rouge, but only because the drove along I20 or watched their team play LSU. So every time something bad makes national news out of NOLA, most seem to assume that goes for the whole state. So for you to try and say it's not fair because problems in the ninth ward shouldn't reflect badly on Lakeview or the Quarter is a little naive.
The rest of the country thinks that all of LA is either swamp or ghetto/gangbanger territory. Well, that and everybody outside NOLA is named Boudreaux or Thibodeaux and their kids take a pirouge (pronounced 'pee row' not 'pee rogee') to shcool.
It's kind of like how I don't know anything about Michigan except Detroit is crime ridden cess pitt and the University of Michigan is really good at football. Well...
SUV's are into gang banging now?
Or into Port New Orleans...let the Mississippi in and, presto!! We now have a huge productive port and no more low life neighborhoods.
(Never mind, the next hurricane will probably take care of it once and for all.)
Be on the lookout for two white guys in a van.
They ARE!
The victims were not identified. Neither was it reported that they were black. Wonder why?
Louisiana has a better national reputation than Alabama does though. I can get over the whole not getting credit for Mardi Gras thing. Mardi Gras is not really a matter of importance to people not from this region, so I shouldn't expect any different. The image that most people have of Alabama is of this monolithic Southern Baptist state, they think of Wallace's stand in the schoolhouse door, and they think it's a bunch of backwoods hicks.
I'm familiar with Louisiana, because honestly, where I'm from, our culture is more akin to Louisiana then it is the state we're in. (Take a wild guess where I'm from). The problem is people like to stereotype large swaths of territory they're unfamiliar with, they accept is as gospel, and when anyone trys to contradict them, it's like their little world falls apart. I grew up with no misconceptions about New Orleans, then again, prior to Katrina, I could get from my house to downtown New Orleans in about 2 and a half hours.
Trust me, I'm fully aware of stereotyping. I always get approached with it when I go out of town on a business trip and start talking about Mardi Gras. These people are shocked to find out that not many people here fit their stereotype of what Alabama was supposed to be. And I've found it odd that it's perfectly o.k to stereotype Southerners, but apparently, no where else in the country really fits into a stereotypical behavior.
"the most violent crime reported in this slowly repopulating city since Hurricane Katrina hit last August."
Why was that phony benchmark used?
Sounds like NO is back in full swing.
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