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Connections Emerge in Bourbon St. Shooting 7 N N 0 1 N M A 0 7 0 6 C M Y K SUNDAY O N Jeff Duncan B O U R B expects Saints Marigny residents T R E E T to strike deal seek solutions S with Graham to spike in crime through the years LIVING SPORTS METRO . YEARS S ni c e 1 8 3 7 M $2.00 METRO EDITION SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014 DAILY & BREAKING NEWS AT ESSENCE FESTIVAL Connections emerge in Bourbon St. shooting WE’VE GOT Robert Benvenuti, left, who police said is one of the Bourbon Street shooting victims, poses last year with shooting suspect Trung Tran Le and ‘person of interest’ Justin Odom in a photo from Benvenuti’s Facebook page. — The trio emerged last week as central characters — a vic- THE LOOK Alleged gunman tim, a witness and a suspect — in a mass shooting on the city’s held in Mississippi famous thoroughfare that killed a woman and wounded nine — others. By Naomi Martin Police say the man shown in Sta! writer the middle, Trung Tran Le, 20, got into a ght with another man A photograph uploaded to around 2:45 a.m. on June 29 out- ELIZA MORSE ELIZA Facebook a year ago shows three side a strip of bars in the 700 West Bank men posing together block of Bourbon. Le fired the Essence Festival is on Bourbon Street. One holds a rst shot, authorities allege, and orescent-green cup and anoth- the man returned re. about the music — ask er makes an obscene gesture to anyone at the Dome. the camera. See SHOOTING, A-8 And it’s about For complete coverage of the shooting investigation, go to nola.com empowerment — just ask anyone at the Convention Center. But it’s also about the clothes, the shoes, the look. CHRIS GRANGER / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER STAFF / GRANGER CHRIS NAGIN’S The Roots perform Saturday for Essence Fest at the Mercedes- For more fashion photos, see A-6 or Benz Superdome. The annual festival concludes today. nola.com. For the full schedule, see B-3. DILEMMA Former Mayor Ray Nagin There’s no clear-cut strategic choice as he heads into sentencing hearing Slowing down on ramps can speed commutes — sentencing, he will face a stark choice: Does he admit wrong- — By Robert McClendon needs only to look to Minnesota. according to a study by Cam- Sta! writer doing in the hopes that taking That state pioneered the strate- bridge Systematics. responsibility will result in leni- Other cities report gy to increase highway capacity “Travel-time reliability and Former New Orleans Mayor ency? Or does he continue to by using signal lights to restrict crashes were all negatively Ray Nagin will walk through the de antly proclaim his innocence, success with signals traf c merging onto a freeway. impacted when they shut them halls of the federal courthouse as he has done since a grand To test the effectiveness of the down,’’ said engineer Laurence Wednesday, the last few steps of jury indicted him on corruption — on-ramp signals, the Legislature Lambert of Stantec Consulting BRIANNA PACIORKA / STAFF a path he started not long after charges 18 months ago. By Andrea Shaw suspended their use in Minne- in Baton Rouge. “They immedi- Ramp meters will be installed he took office and began using It is, said Tania Tetlow, a Sta! writer apolis and St. Paul in 2000. The ately saw a degradation in their his position, a jury found, to line Tulane University law professor verdict was clear: Rush-hour highway system.’’ along the Pontchartrain his own pockets. and former federal prosecutor, a For evidence that ramp crashes jumped 26 percent, and Expressway and Earhart When he arrives in the meters improve traf c ow, one commuting time rose 22 percent, See RAMPS, A-8 Boulevard starting this fall. courtroom to meet his fate at See NAGIN, A-7 WEATHER SUNNY AND HOT BUSINESS A-12 LIVING D PUZZLES D-9 TELEVISION D-11 177th See B-6 HIGH LOW CLASSIFIED F LOUISIANA A-2 REFLECTIONS E TRAVEL D-6 YEAR 92° 73° DEATHS B-3 NATIONAL A-10 SPORTS C WASHINGTON A-3 NO. 70 7 12393 22222 7 C M PAGE: A-1 Sunday, July 6, 2014 Zone: Metro OUTPUT AT 10:29 PM, SATURDAY Y K 7NN08NMA0706 A-8 SUNDAY, JULY 6, 2014 THE TIMES-PICAYUNE M CONT INU E D Identity of second gunman still isn’t clear SHOOTING, from A-1 times, Le’s father would stand in front of the house and yell for long periods. Le’s friend, Robert Benvenu- “That’s a messed-up family,” ti, 22, shown on the left, was one Alesich said. of those struck by bullets, police Plaquemines Parish sheriff’s records show. And the face of deputies have been called out 13 the third man in the photo, Jus- times to the father’s house at 166 tin Odom, 20, was plastered on River Oaks Drive since Jan. 16, national news outlets as police 2009, department spokesman publicized that he was wanted Eric Becnel conrmed Saturday. for questioning. He was released At least four involved distur- soon after a two-hour interview bances or fights, he said, and with detectives, and his attorney Shooting suspect Trung Le is there were also several general said he was never a suspect. booked into Harrison County complaint calls. But he said not The shooting killed 21-year- Sheriff’s Office on Saturday. all the reported emergencies old nursing student Brittany were related to domestic issues; Thomas and wounded six out-of- with harboring a fugitive, as of- one call was for a hit-and-run, towners. cials had threatened. another was for a separate traf- It came days before thou- Le was booked into jail in c accident and others were for sands of visitors descended on Harrison County Miss., and medical emergencies. downtown New Orleans for the New Orleans police are seeking Becnel said Le was arrest- Essence Festival and drew a to have Le extradited to face one ed on Sept. 25 after deputies spotlight on the city’s dwindling count of rst-degree murder and were called out for a domestic police force. Mayor Mitch Lan- nine counts of attempted mur- disturbance. They were called drieu pleaded for State Police to der. Le will face a judge Mon- out again on Jan. 27, he said. assign 100 troopers to the city day morning who will determine Authorities were there again on and for federal authorities to CHRIS GRANGER / STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER whether he will be extradited, a May 30 for a general complaint. step up their assistance ghting Brittany Thomas, a 21-year-old nursing student from Hammond, is remembered in a memorial hanging Harrison County sheriff’s dep- Le was also arrested when violence in a city notorious for its in the Bourbon Street block where she and nine others were shot. Thomas died from her wounds. uty said. he was 17, on March 31, 2011, crime problem. It’s unclear if Le has an attor- and was booked with domes- “This type of tragedy strikes ney yet. Reached by telephone tic disturbance and disturbing at the heart of who we are as a on theft charges after they were Saturday, a man who identied the peace, Becnel said. He did people and as a city,” Landrieu accused of stealing Dr. Pepper himself as Le’s brother said he not immediately have informa- said in a statement after Thom- soda and fruit punch from a cool- didn’t know if Le had a lawyer. tion about what happened after as died at a hospital. er at West Jefferson Hospital. “We don’t want to talk right either arrest. A week after the shooting, Kelley and Benvenuti now,” he said, before hanging up. Le also has an arrest record police have one suspect, Le, in declined to comment for this sto- Le’s grandmother answered in Jefferson Parish on rela- custody and have interviewed ry. Odom’s attorney, Gregory the door at her home and said tively minor charges. He was Odom and another “person of Thompson, said his client was only that she had emigrated booked on counts of possession interest,” who they declined to never suspected of pulling the from Vietnam in 1991 and that of synthetic marijuana and roll- identify. trigger, and was released from she does not speak English. ing papers in November 2011, A clearer picture is start- custody soon after giving detec- A neighbor of Le’s father and records show. He was also ing to emerge of some of those tives a two-hour interview. police records show some signs accused of stealing items val- involved in the altercation; how- “I’ll let the pictures and imag- of trouble in Le’s family. Next- ued under $500 from Sears in ever, questions remain as to the es speak for themselves,” said door neighbor Josh Alesich, December 2012. identity of the second gunman Thompson, who conrmed that 25, said the Les were “always and what sparked the deadly he had seen the Facebook pho- ghting.” •••••••• confrontation. tos. He declined to comment on Alesich said that a couple Authorities ask anyone with information Photos uploaded on Facebook the “extent to which they (Odom, DANIELLE DREILINGER / STAFF months ago Le’s father, an immi- on the identity of the second gunman or show Le, Benvenuti and Odom Le and Benvenuti) may or may Trung Le’s home on 166 River Oaks Drive in Belle Chasse was grant, “knocked on my door and the shooting to contact NOPD Homicide drinking and hanging out on not know each other” and wheth- raided Friday by a SWAT team from the Plaquemines Parish Sher- his face was all bloody — he Detective Bruce Brueggeman at Bourbon Street.
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