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Some of you may know Helen Hill & Paul Gailiunas, who spent several years in Halifax. They have been living in New Orleans, Louisiana, and I just learned that Helen has been murdered, and Paul is in the hospital. Paul is expected to recover, and their baby is safe & staying with family friends.
Here's the newspaper write-up:
Six New Orleanians killed in the last day, 12 in the last week
Thursday, January 04, 2007
By Brendan McCarthy
Staff writer, The Times-Picayune
In the sixth murder New Orleans murder in less than a day, a woman was killed and her husband shot in their home this morning at about 5:30 a.m., said New Orleans police, who found the bleeding husband kneeling at the door of the couple’s home, holding their two-year-old son in his arms.
The toddler was not hurt; the husband, 35, underwent surgery at Elmwood/Charity Trauma Center, police said, where his son was also taken for examination. The woman, 36, was pronounced dead at the scene.
The slayings, for which police offered no motive, capped off a wave of bloodshed severe even by New Orleans standards, and comes three days after Police Superintendent Warren Riley called a year-end news conference to put a positive spin on last year’s murder total of 161, which he called the lowest in 30 years. On a per capita basis, however, even the most optimistic projection of the post-flood city’s drastically shrunken population makes that murder rate an increase over previous years.
Including another murder on New Year’s day, the latest violence brings this year’s total to at least seven slayings in four days. Looking at just the past week, murderers have killed at least 12 people.
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