A New Orleans resident, Merritt Landry, has been charged with attempted second-degree murder for shooting a teenager, Marshal Coulter. The fourteen-year-old victim reportedly had a history of thefts, according to his own mother and brother, and was seen casing Landry’s home, according to an eyewitness. The teen then apparently jumped a 5-6-foot fence and headed towards the Landry residence, where Landry's pregnant wife and infant daughter were present, according to the police and the home-defender. It was 2 a.m.
The case comes years after a high-profile 2007 New Orleans killing in the same area where a killer entered a dwelling and ruthlessly shot a mother and a father as the father held their infant. The mother died of her wounds. The case had become a huge ordeal in the city, with thousands protesting the high crime in Post-Katrina New Orleans. The killer was never caught, but was believed to be a teenager.
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3 comments:
So let's see if this one looks like he could be Obama's son. How and when did it become a crime to protect yourself and family in your own home. Just because they are black does not give them a free pass to enter someones home and threaten the occupants. This should bring out Jessie and Sharpton again to prove how racist and ignorant they are. This has nothing to do with color. It has to do with your God given right to protect yourself, your family and belongings.
Read the linked article and most of comments with it.
2 a.m. in the morning, after scaling fence over 5 feet high and with some object in his hand? Not a mention that I saw about lighting or how homeowner was alerted. Don't know particulars of LA or New Orleans law on defending your home but high fence clearly is not invitation to just drop in.
Would hazard a guess the perp would have received a similar reception at many of the houses in that area.
Bag em and Tag em. Another wanna be gangsta purged from society. Good riddens
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