November 16, 200520 yr New Orleans Has First Post-Katrina Slaying Nov 16 9:58 AM US/Eastern Email this story NEW ORLEANS A woman was stabbed to death in what police say is the first slaying in the city since Hurricane Katrina. Police said they found the woman dead inside the home of New Orleans poet Jon Newlin, 56. Newlin had been beaten, they said, and was in critical condition at a hospital. Friends told authorities they discovered the two Tuesday when they went to Newlin's home. Newlin hadn't shown up for a breakfast date with a friend or work at a French Quarter bookstore that day. One or both of the victims may have known their attacker, police spokesman Juan Barnes said. The woman's name was not released. The killing is the 205th for the city this year, compared with 225 by the same time last year, police said. The previous killing in New Orleans was on Aug. 27, two days before the hurricane struck.
November 16, 200520 yr that might be a record in between killings. of course you would figure there were some just after Katrina, they just wont ever be known about.
November 17, 200520 yr Yeah, I'm pretty sure that with all of that lawlessness that went on for like a week to 10 days after the storm, some people probably were murdered that might have been incorrectly listed as storm casualties. We'll never know.
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