Friday, June 3, 2005
• New Orleans teen fatally shot
A 17-year-old New Orleans man was shot dead Thursday night in the St. Bernard public housing complex, New Orleans police said.

Saturday, June 4, 2005
• Man is slain in Algiers home
An 88-year-old retired Navy pilot was bludgeoned to death in his home in the Aurora Gardens neighborhood in Algiers on Thursday, with $300 and some credit cards stolen but no sign of forced entry, New Orleans police and relatives of the victim said.

Sunday, June 5, 2005
• DEADLY FORCE
The fatal shooting of 16-year-old Antoine Colbert by Jefferson Parish sheriff's deputies last week was unusual because deputies fired more than 100 bullets at Colbert and two other teens who, though they had no guns, nearly ran over officers during a wild chase in a stolen truck.

Monday, June 6, 2005
• N.O. man dies in Uptown shooting
A 30-year-old New Orleans man was shot dead Sunday morning and a 22-year-old woman was wounded in what police are calling an Uptown drug deal that turned violent.

Tuesday, June 7, 2005
• Man tells local deputies he was shot while in N.O.
A wounded man showed up in St. Bernard Parish on Saturday night saying he had been shot in New Orleans, the St. Bernard Parish Sheriff's Office said.

• Gunmen wound 2 in Abita Springs shooting
Two men in a car were shot by gunmen who opened fire from another vehicle Saturday night in the Abita Springs area, authorities said.

• Gentilly man killed in home invasion
Two days before his 34th birthday, a New Orleans man was shot to death Sunday by assailants who ransacked his Gentilly apartment but left his girlfriend and her infant son unharmed, police said.

• Bank teller shot in stickup at Gretna area bank
A 23-year-old teller was shot in the back during a robbery of the Iberia Bank near Gretna on Monday morning, about an hour before the bank was scheduled to open, authorities said.

• 4 busted with pot, pistols, police say
A group of New Orleans men, said by police to be smoking pot and armed with pistols, were arrested Monday after one responded to an officer's knock on the front door holding a smoking cigar of marijuana.
- jimlouis 6-08-2005 3:02 am





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