By Peter Finney Jr. | Clarion Herald | March 29, 2022 Overlaid on a map of the city of New Orleans, the color-coded circles with skull-and-bones on Rafael Goyeneche’s computer screen are a nightmare canvas of 21st-century homicidal pointillism. In 1994, the city of New Orleans’ murder spree, fueled by drug warlords, produced 424 homicides,…
By Ken Daley | WVUE | March 29, 2022 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – One man was killed and another wounded early Tuesday (March 29) in a double shooting near the intersection of South Derbigny and Josephine streets in the Hoffman Triangle neighborhood, police said. The shooting was reported at 3:43 a.m. The NOPD said responding…
By Shay O’Connor | WDSU | March 29, 2022 CLICK FOR VIDEO In New Orleans, the Metropolitan Crime Commission reports homicides are up by 49% from this time last year. The month of March is seeing an unusual spike with 24 homicides as of March 28. It’s the second-highest total in a month since MCC…
By Holly Matkin | The Police Tribune | March 28, 2022 New Orleans, LA – A New Orleans father has been arrested for allegedly murdering the suspect accused of killing his son as the suspect was on his way to a court hearing last week, according to police. Hollis Carter, 21, was out on bond…
By Anders Anglesey | Newsweek | March 27, 2022 A Louisiana father is alleged to have fatally shot his son’s accused killer in a case of “street justice,” according to police. The New Orleans Police Department (NOPD) said Bokio Johnson, 46, fatally shot and killed one person and left a second injured in a shooting at Chef…
By Rob Masson | WVUE | March 24, 2022 https://www.fox8live.com/2022/03/24/double-murder-suspect-out-bond-was-murdered-while-heading-court/ NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – A crime watchdog raises concerns about the snowball effect of crime, after Wednesday’s murder of a man who was out on bond, in spite of two second-degree murder charges pending against him. Hollis Carter was killed in Gentilly, after his arrest…
By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | March 24, 2022 CLICK FOR INTERVIEW NEW ORLEANS — Of the four teenaged defendants who appeared in juvenile court Wednesday after being booked in the fatal carjacking of 73-year-old Linda Frickey, who was dragged to her death Monday afternoon in front of horrified witnesses, 17-year-old John Honore stood out.…
Thursday, March 24th, 2022 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Duane A. Evans announced today that on March 23, 2022 ISHAIS PRICE (“PRICE”), age 41, of New Orleans, Louisiana, entered a plea of guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud, in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 371, before United States…
By Carlie Kollath Wells & Missy Wilkinson | NOLA.com | March 22, 2022 The New Orleans coroner identified five people killed by gunfire recently in New Orleans, including a Bourbon Street bartender. Two teenagers are also among the dead. Over the last seven days, 13 people have been murdered in New Orleans, according to the Metropolitan Crime Commission.…
By Kevin McGill | Associated Press | March 22, 2022 NEW ORLEANS — Four teenagers face murder charges in connection with a carjacking that left a 73-year-old woman dying on a New Orleans street, her arm severed after she was dragged a block by her own car while neighbors looked on helplessly, officials said Tuesday.…