Stray bullets in separate shootings have killed two people who were visiting New Orleans for the festivities leading up to Mardi Gras
– Stray bullets in separate shootings killed two people visiting New Orleans for the festivities leading up to Mardi Gras: a 15-year-old girl from Texas and a 33-year-old South Carolina man.
The family comes down every year “to visit family, friends and enjoy Carnival,” her aunt Donna Nettles of New OrleansThe coroner’s office identified the two men killed with Nettles as Donald Roberts Jr., 39, and Marvin Pepp. Coroner’s spokesman Jason Melancon said he could not verify hometowns for any of the three.
“Brandon was one of the happiest persons you could meet, and they took my heart away — man, they took my world away,” he said. Investigators do not believe the Texas teen or the South Carolina man were intended victims in the fatal shootings, police said in emails Wednesday to The Associated Press.
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