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During the most recent shootout, gunmen ran through the streets firing, darting inside one house to reload when they needed more ammunition. Residents of the Milan neighborhood took cover in their own homes, frantically calling police for help, and after the gun smoke cleared, they found 25 shell casings on the ground and pulled bullets out of five different homes.
Investigators identified Jamal W. Brown as the man who gunned down 27-year-old Shedrick L. Turner shortly after 4 a.m. March 11 near the intersection of Delachaise and South Derbigny streets, a police investigator said.
A convicted drug dealer charged but never found guilty in separate murder and attempted-murder cases in the 1990s is now back in jail after a patrol officer found him with two guns this weekend during a traffic stop in the Milan neighborhood, police said. Shortly after 11 p.m. Friday, a member of the NOPD task force assigned to the Milan neighborhood stopped a vehicle at the corner of Delachaise and South Saratoga and smelled marijuana when he approached its window, said Lt. Mike Montalbano of the NOPD Second District investigative unit. When the officer asked the driver to step outside the car, the driver ran off, throwing away a gun as he ran, Montalbano said. The officer caught up to him, arrested him and then found a second gun inside the car, and the driver, identified as 35-year-old Cleveland M. Alfred, claimed ownership of both firearms, Montalbano said. Alfred is charged with illegal possession of a firearm by a convicted felon, possession of a stolen firearm, flight from an officer, expired license plate, suspended driver’s license and no insurance, according to booking records at the Orleans Parish Criminal Sheriff’s Office.
A 27-year-old man was gunned down early Friday morning in the Milan neighborhood, only six blocks away from the site of a previous shooting death earlier this week. The victim, whose name has not yet been released, was found shortly after 4 a.m. Friday lying in the road near the intersection of Delachaise and South Liberty streets, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds, according to a NOPD news release. Paramedics pronounced him dead at the scene. On Sunday evening, a 42-year-old man was killed and a 28-year-old was wounded in a shooting only a few blocks away in the 3700 block of Willow Street, both with multiple gunshot wounds as well. the NOPD said.
Whodata.org classifies property in Freret, Milan, Central City and Gentilly Terrace based on its occupancy and condition on an interactive map. A collaboration between the University of New Orleans and Neighborhood Housing Services, the site is expected to include more neighborhoods as it develops. (Via nola.com)
A rash of recent violent crime and tragedy, coupled with the energetic organizing of a new neighborhood group, led to the largest turnout yet for a NOPD Second District anti-crime march as police and residents paraded through the streets of Milan.
Two Uptown neighborhoods that have suffered from fatal violence in the last month, Milan and the River Garden development, will host the New Orleans Police Department’s monthly anti-crime marches starting at 5 p.m. Wednesday. The NOPD Second District march will begin at the Atkinson-Stern Tennis Center at 4025 S. Saratoga, where a group of Milan residents have begun meeting in an effort to reduce crime in the neighborhood. The march will pause at the intersection of Freret and Milan streets, where Mariah Woods was killed in a crash caused by a suspect fleeing police. The Sixth District march will begin at 503 St. Mary St.
Investigators released the name of a suspect Wednesday in the fatal shooting of a 19-year-old on Freret Street, and said the same man may have been ambushed by others shortly after the shooting on Freret. William Baham, 25, is wanted on a charge of second-degree murder in the death of Errol Meeks, who was gunned down late Monday in front of Friar Tucks bar on Freret. Moments before the shooting, Baham and Meeks spoke “as if they knew each other,” said Sgt. Shaun Ferguson of the NOPD Second District persons-crime division. Meeks was a resident of the Freret neighborhood, and police have two addresses for Baham, one on nearby General Taylor Street in the nearby Milan neighborhood and one on Parc Brittany in New Orleans East.
Investigators have secured video images of a suspect in Monday night’s fatal shooting on Freret Street, and should have the suspect identified soon, the commander of the NOPD’s Uptown-based Second District told community members Tuesday evening.
A suspect in a drug case fleeing from police this weekend caused a crash at the intersection of Freret and Milan streets that killed an 18-year-old woman, leaving the community mourning an promising young college student and raising questions about the criminal justice system. Edward Augustine, 22, is charged with manslaughter, two counts of negligent injury and narcotics violations in the crash, police said. Police were initially chasing his Hyundai Sonata after they tried to stop it for a traffic violation at Carrollton and Claiborne, and saw the driver discard a powdered substance then speed away, police said. The officer lost sight of the fleeing vehicle at Willow and Milan, and the crash took place moments later at Freret, police said. Killed in the crash was Mariah Woods, a Xavier Prep graduate home from Northwestern State University for the holidays.
