So sad. A good guy shot down long before his time.
The NOPD has a good track record of solving high profile crimes and I believe this will be solved.
Posted on 02/04/2011 7:25:13 PM PST by BBell
Decorated U.S. Army veteran Lars Stiaes was just beginning to collect the fruits of his sacrifice.
After serving a tour of duty in Afghanistan that ended when he was injured about a year ago, the 22-year-old New Orleans man came home to study marketing and live in the dorms at the University of New Orleans. He used his military benefits to pay for his housing and education, his family said.
But Wednesday evening, someone dashed his hopes for the future. A person botched an attempt to rob Stiaes and fatally shot him instead, relatives said.
Stiaes was wounded about 8 p.m. near the corner of Vermillion and Mexico streets in Gentilly, New Orleans police said.
After a bullet was lodged in his abdomen, he stumbled to a nearby gas station on Elysian Fields Avenue. Startled onlookers called paramedics.
Doctors pronounced him dead at Interim LSU Public Hospital a short time later.
On Thursday, Stiaes' grandfather, Milfred Stiaes, who helped raise Lars, pondered the irony of the young man's passing at the Perdido Street hospital.
"When he was born, I took him home from Hotel Dieu (Hospital). He died at University Hospital," which Hotel Dieu was later renamed, Stiaes said.
Lars was the only son of Shelley Stiaes, who worked as an operations specialist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in New Orleans before she was transferred to Florida about three years ago.
The nephew of state Rep. Charmaine Marchand Stiaes of New Orleans, Lars Stiaes attended Lusher Elementary School and St. Augustine High School.
At St. Augustine he ran track and cross country. "He loved the competition," said Milfred Stiaes, who lives in Lacombe, which the Army lists as Lars' hometown.
Still, Lars spent his formative years in the city. He graduated from a campus that in the months after Hurricane Katrina
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So sad. A good guy shot down long before his time.
The NOPD has a good track record of solving high profile crimes and I believe this will be solved.
Here we go again.
Extremely sad. To serve your country and to be cut down by a low life that probably has done nothing for his country.
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>Extremely sad. To serve your country and to be cut down by a low life that probably has done nothing for his country.<
100% agreed doc. You nailed it.
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Awful to hear this. RIP Lars, and thank you for your service.
Thugs kill thugs here all the time and the crimes go unsolved. When a high profile crime occurs the NOPD takes out all the stops. They don't play.
Thank you sir. I have read so many “here we go again” threads that were anti-military, that I just wanted clarification.
I’ve been here far too long to be anti-military.
AMEN!
Does anyone else find something innately offensive about that statement? This sounds like it was written by the same people who describe 9/11 as a "man-caused disaster".
This is a damn shame. You hit the nail on the head.
I thought you meant the left was going to use his death as gun control propaganda.
re: “...A person botched an attempt to rob Stiaes and fatally shot him instead...”
“Does anyone else find something innately offensive about that statement?”
Yes - it sounds as if the writer were saying, “had the thief performed his armed robbery in a more professional manner, this unfortunate ‘accident’ wouldn’t have occured.” As if the armed thug who killed this poor guy just needs a bit more training in order to “get it right” next time.
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