by: The Times-Picayune
Wednesday December 26, 2007, 11:58 AM
A young man has been shot several times in the head in the 8800 block of Olive Street in Hollygrove, according to early reports. Paramedics recently arrived at the scene and are transporting the victim. Bullet casing are all over the street. More details to come.
Source:
Man shot in Hollygrove – New Orleans News – NOLA.com
Check out this article in which this experiment took place a year before Katrina hit.
Murder Rate Up In The Big Easy, New Orleans’ Homicide Rate Climbs To 10 Times National Average
(AP) Last year, university researchers conducted an experiment in which police fired 700 blank rounds in a New Orleans neighborhood in a single afternoon. No one called to report the gunfire.
oh, I hate going down there with a load. It is a bad place.
And we should care about this shooting because . . . ?
BZ
BZ, because I am doing a 7 day thing, On the 2nd day of Kwanzaa, and so forth and so on…
Damn, I’m assuming that he was most likely black, so, that had to be some serious, tightly woven corn rows to soften the impact of those rounds to still be living…
Maybe a dragonskin dew rag??