The Louisiana gun store customer who opened fire in a sudden shooting rampage showed no signs of anger or agitation before his attack at the New Orleans-area shop, the local sheriff said Monday.
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The Jefferson Parish Coroner s Office is issuing a warning about a deadly batch of drugs containing fentanyl synthetics.
A health bulletin issued yesterday says the coroner has linked two overdose deaths to a pair of fentanyl-based drugs used as elephant tranquilizers.
Officials say they have found both carfentanil and para-fluorofentanyl for the first time in the parish, which can be used in pill form or a powder similar to cocaine or heroin.
The coroner says these drugs are sold to users who think they are getting heroin or fentanyl and do not realize they are more dangerous.
Revoke police license to kill disabled people!
By Edward Yudelovich posted on February 1, 2021
People with untreated mental illness are 16 times more likely to be killed during a police encounter than other civilians approached or stopped by law enforcement, according to a study released December 2015 by the Treatment Advocacy Center. Disability rights journalist David M. Perry, whose son has Down syndrome, documented in research for the Ruderman Family Foundation that as many as half of all people killed by police have a disability. (tinyurl.com/y7hau3fu)
Eric Parsa, right, is seen with his mother, Donna Lou, center, and father, Daren Parsa.
Jefferson Parish Coroner warns of fentanyl-like drugs leading to local deaths By Nicole Mumphrey | February 2, 2021 at 10:21 AM CST - Updated February 2 at 10:58 AM
JEFFERSON PARISH (WVUE) -Jefferson Parish Coroner Dr. Gerry Cvitanovich is alerting the public to the first reported deaths in Jefferson Parish due to the fentanyl analogues, carfentanil
and
para-fluorofentanyl.
In the first week of January 2021, the Jefferson Parish Coronerâs Office reported two fatal overdoses of each.
Carfentanil is a synthetic opioid approximately 10,000 times more potent than morphine and 100 times more potent than fentanyl. A common legal use of this drug is as an elephant tranquilizer. The reported potency of para-fluorofentanyl is similar to that of fentanyl. Para-fluorofentanyl hasnât been widely used yet.
Lawsuit: Teen With Autism Died After Police Sat On Him For More Than 9 Minutes
by Michelle Hunter, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate/TNS | January 18, 2021
NEW ORLEANS The parents of a teenager with severe autism who died last year following an encounter with Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office deputies have sued the Sheriff’s Office, claiming it is responsible for the actions of seven officers who restrained the teen in a face-down, handcuffed position for more than nine minutes while trying to take him into custody.
Eric Parsa, 16, of Destrehan, lost consciousness and later died after being restrained by the deputies outside of a laser tag in Metairie on Jan. 19, 2020.