crime

Central City homicide suspect arrested: NOPD

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On Monday (Feb. 18), New Orleans police arrested Norman Lee, 23, regarding the recent homicide near the intersection of Martin Luther King Blvd. and Freret St.

NOPD Sixth District officers discovered a 34-year-old male victim lying in the street suffering from a gunshot wound to the head the day prior.

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Magazine Street cashier thrown to ground while trying to stop shoplifters

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A cashier in a Magazine Street shop was thrown to the ground last week while trying to prevent a shoplifting incident. Second District officers are searching for four unknown suspects, pictured above, after their alleged involvement in the simple robbery. The victim told police that on Feb. 12 at 2:50 p.m., she was working as a cashier at a business in the 5500 block of Magazine Street when three women and a man entered the business. Two of the women reportedly stayed at the front of the store while the man and another woman proceeded to the back of the store.

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Kristine Froeba on Washington Mardi Gras: Louisianians cross the Potomac

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The movers and shakers of Louisiana including quite a bit of New Orleans, and more than a few hundred Uptowners recently descended on the nation’s capital to celebrate the annual Washington Mardi Gras.

“If a bomb dropped on this ballroom tonight, Louisiana as you know it would cease to exist,” said one of the organizers at the Saturday night ball. Leaders of business, law partners, CEOs, congressmen, congresswomen, mayors, senators and the governor of Louisiana, John Bel Edwards, were all present.

crime

Man found dead in pickup on Austerlitz Street with gunshot wound to his head

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Police officers found a man bleeding from the head in a pickup truck early Saturday in the East Riverside neighborhood. He was pronounced dead at the scene.

The injury was later learned to be a gunshot wound to the head, and the incident was determined to be a homicide.

The Sixth District officers were responding to a call of a male down Feb. 16 at 7:04 a.m. in the 600 block of Austerlitz Street, near Annunciation Street.

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Video shows man taking packages from porch on Broadway near Tulane University

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The NOPD is seeking to identify and locate an individual seen on video surveillance in commission of a package theft in the 1200 block of Broadway, near Tulane University, on Feb. 8.

At 2:27 p.m., the man shown at the right entered the enclosed front porch of the victim’s residence, the video shows.

He removed three unopened packages from the porch, then fled on foot in an unknown direction.

colleges

Loyola University opens mental health clinic

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from Loyola University New Orleans

Loyola University New Orleans announces the opening of the “Loyola Center for Counseling and Education (LCCE),” a new sliding-scale counseling clinic offering mental healthcare to underserved members of the New Orleans community. The LCCE is hosted by Loyola University New Orleans’ Department of Counseling.

The clinic is housed at 2020 Calhoun St. in Mercy Hall on Loyola University’s campus and is easily accessible from the surrounding residential area.

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Woman convicted of murder as a teen will be released on parole

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After spending her entire adult life behind bars, Michele Benjamin learned Monday that she will be able to go free, the Loyola University Law Clinic has announced.

Benjamin, 41, was a teenager when she was sentenced to life without parole in 1996 for the murder of a German tourist in New Orleans.

The Loyola law clinic began filing appeals in her case not long after life sentences for juveniles were ruled unconstitutional by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2012. That ruling, in Miller v. Alabama, was made retroactive by the Louisiana Supreme Court in 2016, paving the way for Benjamin’s release on parole.