A Battle Without End. Michael Perlstein.
by Perlstein, Michael; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2005Article 69Institutions. Publisher: Times-Picayune, 2004ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Crime | Crime in public housing | Criminal investigation | Drug traffic | Murder | Murder victims | Murder victims' families | Narcotics dealers | New Orleans (La.)DDC classification: 050 Summary: "Even in a city numbered by violence, the surveillance tape was blood-curdling: three men, lying in wait at an open-air carwash on Louisiana Avenue, springing toward their targets with assault rifles, then calmly unleashing a hail of bullets at the unsuspecting victims. Frozen in time, video images from the July 26 [2003] shooting document brutality of a type that regularly places New Orleans among the most violent cities in America. Amazingly, the two victims survived their wounds. Even more amazingly--given the planning and precision of the attack--the men weren't intended to be victims at all. The shooting was a case of mistaken identity." (TIMES-PICAYUNE) This article discusses the "drug-fueled killings and retribution that has made...Calliope, formerly known as the B.W. Cooper public housing complex...one of the city's bloodiest" neighborhoods.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: A Battle Without End, Feb. 11, 2004; pp. n.p..
"Even in a city numbered by violence, the surveillance tape was blood-curdling: three men, lying in wait at an open-air carwash on Louisiana Avenue, springing toward their targets with assault rifles, then calmly unleashing a hail of bullets at the unsuspecting victims. Frozen in time, video images from the July 26 [2003] shooting document brutality of a type that regularly places New Orleans among the most violent cities in America. Amazingly, the two victims survived their wounds. Even more amazingly--given the planning and precision of the attack--the men weren't intended to be victims at all. The shooting was a case of mistaken identity." (TIMES-PICAYUNE) This article discusses the "drug-fueled killings and retribution that has made...Calliope, formerly known as the B.W. Cooper public housing complex...one of the city's bloodiest" neighborhoods.
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