Would people ritually mutilate the dead in the kind of voodoo prevalent there. Or I could be flippant and ask who was sticking pins in a map of New Orleans while reciting incantations to the devil.
If you kill somebody by beating or hacking them to death, the bodies will be "mutilated". Think of the Rwanda massacres
On a pulled thread, there was an account of some elderly who recounted that the thugs in the shelter said they were going to kill them because the elderly were being given priority for buses, and the thugs were not going to allow these to leave before them. The racial composition of the elderly was not stated.