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This is him too. Look, he was just an innocent basketball player! He was a good boy! It must be racism why he's dead!
Posted on 08/27/2023 6:20:44 PM PDT by grundle
A Louisiana taxi driver turned the tables on an armed man who allegedly tried to rob him early Monday morning.
The Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said an unidentified taxi driver in Metairie was in his cab before 1 a.m. on Monday when a suspect armed with a handgun demanded money from the cabbie, NOLA.com reported.
Metairie is located less than 10 miles west of New Orleans.
The cab driver had his own firearm and shot the suspect multiple times, police said. The suspect, later identified as 23-year-old Gerald Pope, was pronounced dead at the scene, NOLA.com reported.
Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office spokesman Capt. Jason Rivarde said the cabbie is not facing charges and classified the fatal shooting as a justifiable homicide.
"The driver was presented with a threat to his life," Rivarde told NOLA.com.
The spokesman added that Pope was likely the suspect behind two previous robberies of cab drivers the week before his death. Authorities said Pope matches the description of a man who robbed a cab driver the day before the shooting at about 3 p.m. and another cabbie the week prior.
The three cab drivers targeted worked for the same company, according to the sheriff's office spokesman.
Neighboring New Orleans suffered a staggering increase in crimes last year, including a rate of 70 homicides per 100,000 residents, a 20% increase in armed robberies compared to 2019's pre-pandemic data and a 156% increase in carjackings compared to 2019, according to available data.
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Take that!
one down. Thousands more.
Think of all the people who will NOT be robbed by this dead perp in the future.
Sadly he will still vote democrat for the next 100 or so years.
As for Gerald? Jerry played the game and lost. There are no more chances left for Jerry. At least he made a clean break with his past.
Must have been a Metry Cab.” Their garage is right on Airline Drive, not far from where the perp got zeroed out.
Not an area I would want to drive a cab.
As for the cabbie, the worst part was cleaning up the cab.
Drunk puke is hard enough to clean up, I can’t imagine brains and blood.
Hope the passenger had some cash on him.
Deduct the cost of the driver’s ammo.
Not negligable these days.
I love a happy ending
ZERO
Sounds like New Orleans has fully recovered from Katrina. Crime should be down in Houston.
That’s when you call The Wolf.
He handles these things.
Ask Marvin.
If Obama had a son.
This is him too. Look, he was just an innocent basketball player! He was a good boy! It must be racism why he's dead!
Good shootin”, Cab Driver.
Seems to me, there was a popular song by that name in the 40’s or 50’s. Maybe by The Mills Brothers.
Ah, a Metairie kid, not a New Orleanian.
Mr. Wolf did none of the deep cleaning.
It was the “Know How”.
...His Estate will have a wrongful death lay suite in 3..2..1!
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