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Interstate shootings, history repeating itself

Between June 2020 and October 2022, interstate highways inside New Orleans hosted an average of two random shootings per month. However, the 2022 total exceeded this average, reaching 30 freeway shootings last year. Two months into 2023, with eight shootings on Interstate 10, the average number of interstate shootings has tripled.

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Arrest made in 13-year-old cold-case homicide

Friday, February 10, at 2:41 in the afternoon, TPSO booked Montrey Paige – now a 30-year-old Hammond construction worker – into the Tangipahoa Parish Jail. Investigators charged him with second-degree murder, multiple failure-to-appear counts, and one charge of jumping bail.

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Catherine

41-year-old pot box murder still unsolved

Anglers found Catherine Ann Corbello Martin, 20, floating face down on Black Bayou, south of Lake Charles, in Calcasieu Parish just after eight in the morning, February 18, 1982. Someone had tied her hands behind her back, stabbed her seventeen times in the chest, strangled her, and dislodged her right eye from its socket.

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Selonia Reed

What really happened to Selonia Reed?

Judge William Dykes of the 21st District Court sentenced Reginald Lathan Reed, 60, to life in prison without the possibility of parole or probation. Six minutes earlier, Defense Council Vanessa Williams claimed a juror disobeyed the judge’s orders and tried to learn more about the trial from the internet.

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