By Emily Lane and Greg LaRose | WDSU | January 7, 2021 CLICK FOR VIDEO LaRicha Roussell has slept next to her son’s football jersey each night since the eighth grader was shot dead on Christmas. Before gunfire killed her son, 14-year-old Ja-Mere Alfred, outside a Walgreens store in eastern New Orleans, his team had…
By Natasha Robin | WVUE | December 30, 2020 CLICK FOR VIDEO NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – “It’s getting out of control,” says a 7th Ward resident. A carjacking unfolds at six in the morning in the 2100 block of Lapeyrouse Street. As 2020 comes to an end, the violence that plaques the city continues. “In…
By Natasha Robin | December 24, 2020 CLICK FOR VIDEO Rafael Goyeneche of the Metropolitan Crime Commission says 200 people have now become homicide victims in the city of New Orleans. The 200th victim, a female, who police say may also be the suspect of an armed carjacking. Police say she was shot in the…
By Josh Roberson | WVUE | December 17, 2020 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) – On Thursday, the New Orleans Police Department, the FBI and Louisiana State Police met to discuss how they plan to combat the recent uptick in crime around the city. This comes as New Orleans is struggling to keep officers on the payroll.…
By Mike Perlstein | WWL-TV | December 17, 2020 NEW ORLEANS — Amid a surge in killings, shootings and carjackings in New Orleans over the past year, the NOPD abruptly changed its crime-fighting tactics, eliminating localized district task forces. In its place, the department formed a citywide crime-fighting squad known as the Violent Crime…
Thursday, December 17, 2020 NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA – United States Attorney Peter G. Strasser announced that ANTHONY ROBINSON (“A. ROBINSON”), age 67; AUDREY HARRIS (“HARRIS”), age 53; JERRY SCHAFFER (“SCHAFFER”), age 66; and KEISHIRA ROBINSON (“K. ROBINSON”), age 26, of New Orleans, Louisiana entered a plea of guilty today to Conspiracy to Commit Mail Fraud,…
By Paul Murphy | WWL-TV | December 16, 2020 METAIRIE, La. — Murders are up in Jefferson Parish for the second year in a row. So far, there have been 49 killings in JP compared to 48 for all of last year. Rosalie Bossier lives in Metairie’s Fat City neighborhood, near the parking lot where…
By Kimberly Curth | WVUE | December 15, 2020 NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) -An armed suspect pointed a gun at a woman’s head while she was unloading groceries in an Uptown neighborhood around 10:15 Monday morning. It happened in the 1500 block of Henry Clay Avenue, not far from St. Charles. Just last week, a nearly…
By Newell Normand | WWL-AM870 | December 15, 2020 The NOPD is coming under fire for utilizing a partnership with the FBI and Louisiana State Police because they use certain investigatory tools, including facial recognition software. The ACLU and others are outraged that the NOPD has not revealed that they have these partnerships and use…
By Thanh Truong | WWL Eyewitness News | December 10, 2020 NEW ORLEANS — They are the ones who run to the emergency, but that responsibility in New Orleans is getting more complicated because of the pandemic and the economic disaster accompanying it. Some first responders like New Orleans firefighters and police are…