Posted on 09/02/2013 9:34:08 AM PDT by BBell
Neighbors are reporting that one of the two 11-year-old girls wounded in a triple shooting early Monday inside a home on the 1300 block of General Ogden Street, has died. New Orleans police later confirmed the girl's death and said she had been shot in the head and brought to a nearby hospital early Monday in critical condition.
The Orleans Parish Corner's Office on late Monday morning identified the girl as Arabian Gayles. Several neighbors earlier in the day simply had said the girl was named "Raven."
The other girl, who neighbors said was Arabian Gayles' cousin, was struck in the arm and a 38-year-old man was hit in his shoulder as he walked past the double shotgun where Arabian, her mother, her siblings and other relatives lived, according to neighbors. The injuries of the other girl and the man were not considered life threatening, according to the NOPD.
Consuella Briggs, 55, said that her son, Tommy Briggs, was the man struck in the shoulder by a bullet as he walked down the street.
Nearby, Alicia Ellis, 23, said she'd heard Arabian and friends "playing right out here, for the longest," pointing to a thin strip of grass alongside her home, a few houses away from the scene of the shooting.
(Excerpt) Read more at nola.com ...
A “shotgun house” is a narrow rectangular domestic residence, usually no more than 12 feet (3.5 m) wide, with rooms arranged one behind the other and doors at each end of the house.
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✔ Learned something new today!
A daughter named “Arabian”? Sometimes the paper does not need to publish race information associated with the crime.
I, too, learned something new today, thank you!
The only place you can say such things—truthful things—is here on FR.
John Derbyshire got canned at National Purview for saying (what even dumbocrats think by buying homes in gated communities) that many whites, like Jesse Jackhandle, give black peeps lots of room, e.g. avoid them.
Pocketbook over patriotism; personal safety over kumbaya platitudes.
Good sense. Yup. Self-defense.
(Hey, I think I’m rappin’ ....)
Me too. this was my first encounter with the term.
I call it my 40% rule.
When blacks reach 40% , whites who can afford to have to move. A few older folks who cannot afford to move are stuck, but others move.
When a job has 40% blacks in it that job can no longer be done properly.
Now you can call that racism if you like, but it’s also a rule that is binding. I have seen it time and time again.
I don’t ask anyone to agree, just to observe. Sooner or later you will agree.
Please, no more Katrinas.
Most of those who fled Katrina to move to Houston are still here.
then we’ll have dead guardsmen....you think the locals would turn in one of their own when they’re fighting the “man:?
The Guardsman spent a number of years patrolling NOLA after Katrina. They patrol NOLA after all the hurricanes. None have ever been killed but the Guardsman have killed a few bad guys.
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