Posted on 09/25/2016 11:31:52 AM PDT by BBell
Tuesday night (Sept. 20), 38-year-old Travon Williams lay dead on the pavement outside a small grocery store at the intersection of North Claiborne Avenue and Desire Street.
Fatally shot, Williams had followed a grim pattern running through his family, a well-worn groove of untimely, violent deaths.
According to those who knew him, Williams had spent the past few years of his life trying to build better relationships with his daughters -- and trying to free himself from a tragic legacy.
At age 5, Williams lost his 24-year-old mother to gunfire at a Desire neighborhood barroom. Gretchen Williams of Desire was killed by another woman in September 1983 after an argument about a man. She was shot in the chest.
At age 15, Williams found his 37-year-old father shot dead alongside two others at the Desire housing complex.
The young Williams was among the first Desire residents at the triple murder scene, a sight so gruesome that another resident described it as "walking into hell."
"Somebody called and said 'Big Milton' got killed in the driveway," Travon Williams told The Times-Picayune in April 1993. "I went around there and saw the bodies. I knew it was my daddy because he had on the hat he always wears."
Witnesses said the body of Milton Williams was found at the end of a long driveway known as "Cocaine Alley." He was shot once through the heart.
Travon Williams, the youngest of three siblings, also lost his older brother to gunshots some time before the mid-'90s, said Dorothy Parker, mother of Travon William's 19-year-old daughter.
At the scene Tuesday night, a woman identified by several bystanders as Williams' sister paced outside of the police tape, screaming demands to see her brother's body.
"I knew this was coming one day!" she cried.
Across the cordoned-off scene,
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He had a sperm donor, is what he had, IMHO.
everybody of every color should be a redneck
The girls find the thugs exciting and manly. With welfare taking care of basic necessities, this allows girls to go after thugs, rather than seek stable husbands.
The boys, meanwhile, observe who gets laid, and who doesn't, and decide the thug lifestyle is the way to go.
And then when they get older they wonder where all the good guys are and all they can say is "all men are pigs!".
More than likely he “dis” somebody.
Riots started yet in NOLA?
You are not allowed to riot in NOLA. The NOPD will not allow it. Kind of like the Baton Rouge police did not allow it, much to the detriment of the justice department.
I wonder if he kept the hat.
I would say it was not his lucky hat.
“I notice they carefully avoid saying what he was doing when he got shot.”
I will bet he was not inside a church building when he was shot.
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