Posted on 08/09/2022 6:11:22 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Samuel Harris is a familiar name to the New Orleans Police Department's homicide squad.
It belongs to a man from the St. Roch neighborhood, and to his son. Each is accused of carrying out a killing in New Orleans in 2022, a particularly grim year for murder in the city.
The cases pending against 41-year-old Samuel J. Harris and 23-year-old Samuel K. Harris appear unrelated, except for the DNA of the suspects. The killings erupted in different parts of town and under very different scenarios. Swift rage seemed to spark one slaying, while the other appeared planned, police reports show. As with most homicides this year in New Orleans, both victims died from gunfire.
Just last year, Samuel J. Harris was attending court hearings for his son, who sat jailed for three years over a different killing, in 2018. That case ended in a plea deal in October. Samuel K. Harris went free days later. His father was helping him line up a job clearing Hurricane Ida debris when he got out, court records show.
But the son wasn’t out for long before another violent encounter. Police booked him in April as a principal to murder in the Feb. 9 slaying of 21-year-old Wilton Marks, a Martin Luther King High School graduate who died inside a Nissan Versa as it rolled up to a stop sign on Old Gentilly Road. A juvenile passenger was shot in the leg. Police allege that Samuel K. Harris drove while an unknown male fired into the Nissan from an open backseat window.
Six days later, father Samuel J. Harris surrendered on a second-degree murder warrant. He’s accused of fatally shooting Eric Whitaker, 51, in the neck late on a January night in the parking lot outside The Island, a St. Roch bar.
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The family that preys together stays together......................
Well done!
Nope...don’t need to look...
They should go into politics.
Share the same cell.
Or the family that slays together runs for public office.
Nah. Petition the corrupt New Orleans governor for pardons, and explain to him how useful they would be if set free. Worked for Riddler in Gotham, Season 3.
Neat!
It’s gonna be easier for dad to take part in the annual “take your son to work day” at the Angola State Prison.
Yep, I looked and was right.
To your tag line: The FBI raided his home to retrieve the sword, claiming that it was an unauthorized defacing of a British monument, and that he was in possession of stolen property.
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