Eight women killed in New Orleans in six weeks. Here are their stories.
Eight women are gone, all shot dead, most of them mothers, some killed in front of their children -- and all in six weeks of 2023.
That's a woman murdered in New Orleans every two days. In 2022, the rate was one every 10 days.
Here are their stories.
On what would have been her murdered sister's 35th birthday, Sully Simmons visited the young woman's grave. Hours later, Sully Simmons, 33, was shot dead in front of her 1-year-old son by unknown assailants in Mid-City.
In a town inured to gun violence, the steady drumbeat of mothers shot dead in the past three weeks has shocked even those most desensitized to…
A Southern University student and a nurse set to graduate next week from Nunez Community College were gunned down in Treme early Friday, accor…
On a warm, late spring Saturday night in Pines Village, about 20 neighborhood kids were playing outside Temera Anderson's apartment when her s…
Henry Talley Jr. had been gripping the wheel, but not the trigger, in a drive-by shooting in 1996 that killed a 12-year-old boy, a jury found.…
Chala Roberts, 24, was sitting in a car down the street where she lived at her mother’s house in Algiers on Memorial Day when she was gunned down, one of many women fallen in recent killings.
Broadmoor victim is eighth woman killed in New Orleans in six weeks