All Blog Posts Tagged 'shootings' (4)

Three killed in two afternoon shootings in New Orleans

Three men were shot to death in the span of two hours this afternoon in two separate incidents in New Orleans.

First, two New Orleans men were shot to death in a vehicle Uptown. Travain Jones, 20, died on the scene, and Bryant Langston, 17, died shortly afterward at University Hospital, according to Orleans Parish chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano. Langston was three weeks shy of his 18th birthday.

About an hour and a half… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on August 18, 2008 at 8:48am — 15 Comments

Drive-by shooting Wednesday brings number of shootings to 8 in a month

Kwamain Nix

Jason Black

Mitchell

Deputies were called to the area of Poppy Hill Road at about 6 p.m. to reports of shots fired. Witnesses said a black Mercedes was driving back and forth on the road before a passenger opened fire on Willie Tolbert IV,who was walking down the street at the time, according to the Beaufort County Sheriff's Office. He was not… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on August 8, 2008 at 9:30pm — 4 Comments

Related shootings lead to 3-car crash at Summer and Hudson

A rolling shootout littered several blocks between Jackson and Summer with shell casings Tuesday and puzzled investigators, who spent most of the afternoon trying to figure out exactly what happened and why.

A brown Pontiac Bonneville that was involved in the shootings slammed into a Chevy pickup and a Nissan minivan at Summer and Hudson amid the gunfire, injuring a woman and a baby in the minivan and forcing officers to close Summer Avenue for… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on July 30, 2008 at 1:33pm — 3 Comments

Southside woman mourns husband

Staria Campbell, wife of murder victim Michael Guyton, talks about her husband's death and their children outside of her apartment Thursday.

One man was sitting in a car near a corner where drugs are sold every day. Another man may have quarreled with an acquaintance before someone pulled a gun. And yet another man was with friends in a parked car when a group walked up beside them on the sidewalk.

Within about an hour… Continue

Added by USDA2DAY Staff on July 25, 2008 at 8:39am — 2 Comments