With over 200 killed from a population of 200,000, New Orleans was by far the murder capital of the US last year. In fact, it’s got about as high a death rate per 100,000 as Kabul, a city at war.
This insane story runs in New Orleans Times-Picayune:
TAGS: Cocaine, NSA, paris, warAn Orleans Parish jury today will begin hearing the second-degree murder case of 17-year-old Charles Johnson accused of killing a rival with the gun his mother provided him with — along with the instructions to, “Go out and get them all.”
Police said they found a small amount of cocaine and a photograph of Clarence Johnson mugging for the camera with a gun in one hand, and a wad of cash in the other.



