Posted on 12/16/2014 2:44:21 PM PST by BBell
A man was killed and his adult stepson wounded Sunday, after gunmen opened fire on the front porch of a Carrollton home with children playing only a few feet away.
Family members identified the dead man as 35-year-old Michael "Puff" Meyers, who lived at the house in the 8400 block of Hickory Street with his mother and six of his seven preteen children. New Orleans police said he was shot once in the back around 1 p.m., collapsed outside his front door, and died a short time later at Interim LSU Hospital. Grieving relatives said he was the third member of their family murdered in New Orleans since March.
Police said a 22-year-old man, identified by relatives as Meyers' stepson, was shot in the leg but managed to scramble to safety inside the house. He was hospitalized in stable condition, family members said.
Three 7-year-old boys - Meyers' twin sons and their cousin - were playing only a few feet away on a trampoline at the side of the house when the shots rang out, Meyers' sister Mickal "Minnie" Meyers said.
"My little nephew said he ducked; that's why a bullet went over his head," she said. "That's how it hit the garbage can."
She said her brother's 12-year-old daughter was the first to rush outside to her stricken father, after hearing at least seven gunshots. One of those shots pierced the walls of the house, but no one inside was injured.
"She told me, 'My dad said, 'Don't let me die,'" Minnie said. "I told her, 'It's not your fault. You didn't let him die. It was God saying it was his time.'
"She just kept saying, 'I was just playing with my dad. I was just playing with my dad.'"
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“My little nephew said he ducked; that’s why a bullet went over his head,”
Oh come on - you know what they meant. It’s some little kid they are talking about.
I did hear on the radio that police think the 22 year old step-son was the intended target. Puff was just caught in unfriendly fire.
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