church

Audubon parents voice safety concerns at proposed Lower Garden District campus

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Neighborhood residents and Audubon Charter School parents got a first look Tuesday night at plans for the school’s proposed temporary campus in the Lower Garden District and began voicing concerns about the safety of the neighborhood, before a sudden downpour flooded the area and forced an early end to the meeting. The school is proposed for a vacant lot bounded by Orange, Constance, Annunciation and Richard streets. According to plans shown by project management firm Jacobs/CSRS during a Tuesday evening meeting at the nearby Sixth Baptist Church, the site would essentially comprise three similarly sized buildilngs, a playground and a parking lot. The cafeteria and administrative building would run along Constance, one class building would run along Orange, and the second class building would sit next to the first near the center of the lot. Engineers are proposing a drive to be added through the center of the lot from Annunciation to Constance, and partially reopening Constance, which is now closed there.

crime

Drive-by shooting kills 1, injures 4, including a 3 month old in River Garden area

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One man was killed, and three other adults and a baby were wounded, in a drive-by shooting in the River Garden development in broad daylight Monday afternoon, police said. Three men were standing in a rear driveway in the 800 block of Felicity Street about 1:30 p.m. when an older-model Cadillac sedan approached and opened fire, police said. The ensuing volley of bullets struck all three men, as well as a 21-year-old woman and 3-month-old baby girl who were walking to a nearby store at the intersection of Chippewa and St. James, police said. Police arrived to a scene of carnage, they said: two men, ages 20 and 23, and the baby all gunned down in the driveway, with a semi-automatic weapon and drugs discarded near the 23-year-old.