There's a strong chance she was killed for no reason than someone saw her and realized she would be easy to kill. No robbery. No stealing a bicycle. She was possibly shot because the guy was there, had a gun, and just wanted to target practice. As I read the article, I kept thinking, "clueless." She was like a puppy playing in traffic, utterly unaware of how she was constantly flirting with death.
My wife and daughters are similarly naive about the nature of some people, but are wise enough to avoid coming into contact with them. When we were shopping for a house, we'd look at a cool old two story, and my wife would say, "Oh, it's beautiful. Let's get it." I'd look at the neighborhood clues and tell her "No Way."
I go to Nola frequently for work, was there four times last year, most recently in December. I have two comments:
First, no one who lives there, of any race, would be out cycling at that hour.
Second ironically, there is something that reeks of colonialism and white entitlement in her blithe disregard of reality — she’s saying with her actions “ I don’t have to be aware of objective reality; I can do whatever I want whenever I want and not think of the consequences because my status makes me invulnerable.” From a philosophical perspective, she was imposing her own views on another culture, with no regard for that culture, actively negating the social parameters of that culture.