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New Orleans Man Faces Life in Prison for Stealing Candy bars

Even the judge in the case found this punishment way too harsh!

Because Jacobia Grimes has five prior theft charges, he can be charged under Louisiana’s habitual offender law, which ups his charge from a misdemeanor to a felony punishable by 20 years to life behind bars.

“Isn’t this a little over the top?” Judge Franz Zibilich said during the 34-year-old’s arraignment Thursday.

“It’s not even funny,” he said. “Twenty years to life for a Snickers bar, or two or three or four.”

The newest charge came about in December, after a store manager saw Grimes boosting candy. He willingly emptied out his pockets before the arrest — and the total of his sugary loot came to $31.

The arrest could have been a minor thing, but the district attorney’s office chose to apply the habitual offender law and seek an inexplicably harsh penalty.

Grimes’ priors include thefts from Rite-Aid, Sav-A-Center, Blockbuster and Rouses, according to his attorneys. In all cases, the stolen goods totaled to less than $500.

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New Orleans News

Shootout on Bourbon Street – 9 People Shot

(AP) — Police continued searching Monday for two men who exchanged gunfire on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, leaving nine people shot in the crossfire, including two who were in critical condition.

Images captured from a surveillance camera above a bar showed people running down the street in the chaos of the shooting at 2:45 a.m. Sunday.

Police placed several views for the shootout online asking for the public’s help in identifying the two shooters.

New Orleans Police Chief Ronal Serpas said six victims were hospitalized in stable condition. The other victim’s condition was not available. Some of them were tourists. Their names were not immediately released.

Serpas said at a news conference in the French Quarter that the victims were shot “by two cowardly young men trying to hurt each other.”

“What happened was two young men got angry at each other and shot at each other,” he said.

Bourbon Street is a nightly swirl of bright neon and tourists, usually with beverages in hand. A blend of jazz joints, strip clubs, bars and restaurants, Bourbon Street has everything from four-star dining to sex shows.

New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu pledged a swift response from law enforcement.

“Our No. 1 priority is to keep New Orleans safe,” Landrieu said in a statement. “These kinds of incidents will not go unanswered … I am confident that between video evidence and eyewitness accounts, we will bring the perpetrators to justice.”

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Man and 7 month Old Baby Shot and Killed in New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man and a 7-month-old boy have been fatally shot in an apparent ambush on a New Orleans bridge.

Police spokesman Frank B. Robertson III told The Associated Press that someone opened fire on the 25-year-old man Wednesday night as he rode in the back seat of a black Honda Accord on the Crescent City Connection bridge.

Robertson says the boy was in a car seat beside the man. He says a woman who was driving and another woman who was a front-seat passenger were not hurt.

The boy was taken to a hospital, where he died.

The shooting happened just past the toll plaza area on the West Bank entrance to the bridge.

Robertson says police do not have a named suspect, but believe the shooter knew the man

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New Orleans: 5 Year Old Shoots Self in Head

But don’t worry, guns don’t kill people, people kill people. That twisted way of thinking comes from the NRA and the Republican party.

According to their reasoning, the gun had nothing to do with this 5 year old’s death. She could have also bludgeon herself to death with a rock.

A New Orleans mother is facing murder charges after her 5-year-old daughter, who was locked their home alone, died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head.

Investigators told WWLTV that 28-year-old Laderika Smth admitted that a gun was in the home where she had left her daughter while she went to the store.

New Orleans police were called to the home just before 11 a.m. on Sunday and found the 5-year-old girl lying on the bedroom floor. A .38 revolver was also recovered at the scene.

“See that little girl was probably going through the house and she probably ran across the gun, probably thought it was a toy and started playing with it,” neighbor Amber Rodriguez told WVUE.

After being rushed to a local hospital, the girl was taken off life support Sunday evening.

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Update: Police Release Surveillance Video of Suspects in New Orleans Mother’s Day Shooting

UPDATE: 11:00 AM EST

New Orleans police have released a photo of possible suspect in Mother’s Day parade shooting:

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UPDATE: May 12th, 7:45 AM EST

Police have released surveillance video of one of the suspects in the shooting yesterday in New Orleans. The reward for any information leading to an arrest is $10,000. Call Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.

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UPDATE: May 12, 2013 7:00PM EST

WPIX has just release VERY GRAPHIC cell phone footage of the aftermath of the shooting in New Orleans.  WARNING the video has a lot of blood in it, so click if you are able to handle.

SOURCE: WPIX

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UPDATE: 5/12/13 5:21 PM EST

A vine taken at the very moment the shots went off at the parade has just been posted by someone who was on the scene.

You can see folks quickly scatter to save their lives. Watch above!

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UPDATE: 5/12/13 5:09 PM EST

According to CBS, police are looking for three suspects, one of which was described as a dark skin male, 18-22 years old with short hair, a white shirt and blue jeans.

All suspects are still on the loose and not in custody.

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We sadly report, New Orleans’ Superintendent Ronal Serpas says that at least twelve people have been shot at a Mother’s Day second-line parade in the 7th Ward.

According to the WWLTV news:

Read more Here.

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NFL Championship Weekend

The NFL playoffs have been incredible so far and now we enter Championship Weekend with two great games set to be played. First, the Falcons will see if Matt Ryan can seal the deal against Colin Kaepernick and the 49ers in Atlanta. Then it’s up to Foxboro to see if the Ravens can help Ray Lewis end his career hoisting the Lombardi Trophy or if the Patriots are going to setup their second straight trip to the Super Bowl.

At this point, my hopes of a Washington vs Indianapolis matchup are dead. So at this point, I’m pulling for a Ravens vs 49ers big game. I think Kaepernick is going to outshine Ryan and despite my hatred for the 49ers, I believe they are going to win the NFC Championship game they couldn’t win last year, and book a trip to New Orleans on February 3rd.

I also think that the Patriots will not return to the Super Bowl this year. I think the Ravens are a good team that got hot at the right time and will ride this wave straight to New Orleans. I don’t think either game will be a laugher but I expect the Ravens, Pats games to be especially nerve racking.

Sunday will come soon and we shall see if I’m correct.

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