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New Orleans police plan to boost security in French Quarter
April 29, 2021
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NEW ORLEANS (AP) New Orleans police say they plan more patrols in the French Quarter after recent homicide and other violent crimes.
Five people were shot and wounded on Bourbon Street early Saturday, WGNO-TV reported.
New Orleans police investigated 10 homicides last week in the city, Police Superintendent Shaun Ferguson said. He said “that is something out of the norm for us.
“These last few weeks have been rough, Ferguson said. “Multiple homicides, specifically violent incidents on Bourbon Street.” Top Picks In Shopping
A New Orleans area man has been arrested in connection to a shooting that left a high school student as well as his stepsister dead. According to reports, there was some sort of back-and-forth on social media between the parties involved before the incident.
See the report from @NOLAnews on Twitter below.
According to the above report, 20-year-old Hollis Carter is being held on $375,000 bond at the Orleans Justice Center. He is being held on two counts of second degree murder and one count of attempted second-degree murder, as another party was left wounded in the shooting.
A senior at Edna Karr, Caleb Johnson was just weeks away from graduating when he, along with his stepsister Breyiana Brown, were found dead at an apartment complex in the New Orleans area.
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An officer took a 14-year-old girl to get a rape kit. Then, he groomed her and raped her, lawsuit says.
Andrea Salcedo, The Washington Post
March 4, 2021
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New Orleans police officer Rodney Vicknair was in the emergency room last May with a 14-year-old girl he had driven in for a rape kit exam when he began showing her pictures on his cellphone. The images of a teenage girl in bikinis and lingerie, Vicknair allegedly said, were his daughter s modeling pictures.
That s how Vicknair first started grooming the girl for months of inappropriate calls, texts and meetings that eventually led to him sexually assaulting and raping her, the girl s family alleges in a lawsuit.