Lootie say, "Everybody have a beer an' chill."
Posted on 12/31/2005 3:57:39 AM PST by Ninian Dryhope
A shooting Friday night at a southeast Houston apartment complex in which four people were reportedly wounded is another example, one tenant said, of the tension between Katrina evacuees and local residents.
According to the father of one of the shooting victims, a disagreement between two girls, possibly in their early teens, had been brewing all day. "They were just fighting over a boyfriend," said Michael Smith, 35, whose son Nikita Williams was wounded in the leg and hand.
The shooting happened at the Cullen Park Apartments in the 4700 block of Wenda at about 8 p.m., residents said.
A cousin of Williams got the 17-year-old out of bed to join a face off between warring factions, according to Smith. While outside someone fired a shotgun into a crowd wounding four people, including the teen, according to residents.
Residents were told that police later arrested a male in his late teens to early 20s suspected of being the shooter.
Smith, who is from New Orleans, said that his family has been in Houston for three months. Since the beginning of December fighting and other disagreements pitting Katrina evacuees and Houston residents have been becoming more common.
"It's over turf," he said, "or somebody not looking at somebody else the right way."
Lootie say, "Everybody have a beer an' chill."
TX is not NO. Do not try to start something. We are armed to the teeth.
I agree! Thank Perry for that one.
I was talking with a coworker about a no resident who was shot a little while back. He was robbing a store and got shot. A quote from him was,"Well messed with TX and lost."
You can take 'em outta New Orleans but you can't take New Orleans outta them.
We need to run Castro's old "boat lift" in reverse with about 75% of these evacuees.
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