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2021-04-30 -Lurid Crime Tales-

Grandmother fatally punched in French Quarter

[NOLA] The brother of an Alabama-born grandmother who was fatally punched on a French Quarter street last week is trying to understand what motivated her killing, but he expressed relief Wednesday that police had captured a suspect.

"We have no earthly idea why this happened," said Jeffrey Johnson, brother of Margaret "Jane" Johnson Street. "It won’t bring my sister back, but it helps knowing who did it and that they have him."

New Orleans police say Johnson Street, 61, got into an argument with Jeremiah Mark, 23, in the 100 block of Royal Street on April 18 at about 7:45 p.m. Details about the argument haven’t been available, but Mark punched Johnson Street in the face, causing her to fall backward and hit her head on the concrete, police wrote in a sworn statement filed in Criminal District Court.
"Booyah, did you see me put the lights out on that old lady? Like a champ!"
She was taken to University Medical Center, where staffers diagnosed her with a traumatic brain injury. She died April 20, and her death was classified a homicide after an autopsy two days later, police said.

Police said they didn’t immediately know Mark’s name, but they released a photo of him to the public and asked for help in identifying him because they wanted to question him. Mark saw the picture in the news media and met with Sherlocks April 22. Police said he told them "he used his hand to push [Street] in the face."

They booked him with manslaughter, which Louisiana law defines as an unintentional yet unjustifiable killing. Magistrate Court Commissioner Jonathan Friedman set Mark’s bail at $100,000, and he remained in jug Wednesday evening.

Posted by Fred 2021-04-30 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11141 views ] Top

#1 Hate crime. Nationwide protests sure to follow
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Posted by Creash Brown5037 2021-04-30 03:05|| 2021-04-30 03:05|| Front Page Top

#2 "We have no earthly idea why this happened,"

I certainly do, but I shall keep my thoughts to myself.

Posted by Besoeker 2021-04-30 03:13|| 2021-04-30 03:13|| Front Page Top

#3 I won’t keep my thoughts to myself. Black Entitlement and poor impulse control.

Posted by Chesney Henbane8088 2021-04-30 04:41|| 2021-04-30 04:41|| Front Page Top

#4 ^ Exactly

Posted by Dacama 2021-04-30 07:33|| 2021-04-30 07:33|| Front Page Top

#5 Fed by a media in the grand tradition of Julius Streicher of installing racial hate in one community upon another.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-04-30 10:05|| 2021-04-30 10:05|| Front Page Top

#6 100 block of Royal Street

That's just off Canal, and in kind of a sketchy semi-tourist area.

Lotta folks 'just hangin' out', so one should try to avoid it.

Posted by Mullah Richard 2021-04-30 14:58|| 2021-04-30 14:58|| Front Page Top

#7 Yeah, the punch sucked, but I understand they found the fall was what was causing all the damage during Knockout Game; the uncontrolled fall and the head striking a hard surface, such as pavement.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-04-30 16:26|| 2021-04-30 16:26|| Front Page Top

#8 That's just off Canal, and in kind of a sketchy semi-tourist area.

New Orleans is a sketchy semi-tourist area, more or less.

I'd talk about how it used to be an actual normal city but noone's going to believe me.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-30 20:29|| 2021-04-30 20:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Ah, New Orleans, to eat fried dough in the most corrupt city on earth. I love Nola, but it's a messed up place.

Gosh, Uncle Thing, was New Orleans really a normal city once?

Posted by SteveS 2021-04-30 21:07|| 2021-04-30 21:07|| Front Page Top

#10 ^ Do you mean normal normal, or New Orleans normal?

Posted by Matt 2021-04-30 21:51|| 2021-04-30 21:51|| Front Page Top

#11 Once upon a time my momma and her little brother would go to the movies by themselves. I think she was ten at the time, and the movie was Frenchman's Creek.

I can't imagine that today.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2021-04-30 22:16|| 2021-04-30 22:16|| Front Page Top

#12 Whatsamovie?

Posted by Pliny Darling of the Munchkins3593 2021-04-30 22:57|| 2021-04-30 22:57|| Front Page Top

#13 Royal News, and then on to the Acme--
"But only one dozen!"
Exactly. I backtracked to Mena's--
"Cheap gumbo. Not heinous."
Next, poboys at Johnny's--
"Said 'hi' to the honeys?"
Sure. Zigzagged to Buster's--
"O locus augustus!"
For sausage and beans--
"Too expensive!"
Plus greens. Skipped Napoleon House--
"Cuz it wasn't!"
Don't grouse. Cuz I'll get muffalettas for breakfast.
"Wow, reckless!"
Now, finally, at Fun's, 'twas chop suey-- oops! [runs]
"Bet that bucket of soup tasted nothing like poop. Hey, but wait! No beignets?"
Through a sugary haze, by the dawn's early light, I popped in for a bite at La Patisserie, kicking B. in the... knee. Then, bulging a-ventral, I blew up to Central to get two, to go, though my Progress was slow. Having broken my fast at the Commerce at last, I was almost at peace... for an hour at least! Oh, and nary a jackass attacked me.

Posted by Spusomp Hupoluque5907 2021-04-30 23:44|| 2021-04-30 23:44|| Front Page Top

#14 Mind you, that'd the real "lead paint chips and rice for 75 cents" Buster's, not the Jax travesty.

Posted by Spusomp Hupoluque5907 2021-04-30 23:54|| 2021-04-30 23:54|| Front Page Top

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