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January 05, 2007
"Hold That Thought" Addendum
Put another body on the pile.
In the sixth New Orleans murder in less than 24 hours, a woman was killed and her husband shot in their home Thursday about 5:30 a.m., said police, who found the bleeding man kneeling at the door of the couple's Faubourg Marigny home, clutching their 2-year-old son....Including another murder on New Year's Day, the latest violence brings the new year's total to at least seven slayings in four days, though one of the apparent killings -- a woman's body found Wednesday rolled up in a throw rug on a Lower 9th Ward street -- remains officially an unclassified death. In the past week, 12 people have been murdered in the city.
...The Marigny shootings -- for which police offered no motive -- capped a wave of bloodshed severe even by New Orleans standards, and came three days after Police Superintendent Warren Riley called a year-end news conference to put a positive spin on the 2006 murder total of 161, which he called the lowest in 30 years. On a per-capita basis, however, even the most optimistic projection of the post-Katrina city's drastically shrunken population makes that figure an increase from previous years.
major dad, Kcruella and I used to love wandering the Bywater and the Marigny.
Damn.
Posted by tree hugging sister at January 5, 2007 12:04 PM
Comments
Lowest in thirty years... see, I told you he was bad at math. 161 is definitely NOT lower than 159 (the number for 1999, which is DEFINITELY less than 30 years ago).
Posted by: Nightfly at January 5, 2007 12:23 PM
He didn't say which thirty years he was lookin' at, 'Fly, now did he?
Posted by: Mr. Bingley at January 5, 2007 12:28 PM
It's not his fault. All the math teachers were eaten by cannibals.
Posted by: tree hugging sister at January 5, 2007 02:25 PM
"...severe even by New Orleans standards..." Don't you just love it?
Posted by: Firehand at January 7, 2007 02:32 PM