Jillian Kramer
Criminal Justice Reporter| The New Orleans Advocate at The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate
Reporter for the Times-Picayune | @NOLAnews // Also, freelance journalist for the New York Times, National Geographic, and more.
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1 week ago |
nola.com | Jillian Kramer
State and federal law enforcement agencies have seized a Central City car wash they say has been a hub for illegal drug activity and violence. The seizure of 5-Star Auto Car Wash on the corner of Felicity Street and South Claiborne Avenue capped a monthslong investigation sparked by citizen complaints, said Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams, who announced the bust at a news conference Monday afternoon.
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3 weeks ago |
nola.com | Jillian Kramer
A New Orleans jury on Thursday convicted a man of murder and manslaughter for his role in an interstate highway shooting two years ago that killed three people and injured two more. Though prosecutors had sought to convict 35-year-old Tyree Quinn on three counts of second-degree murder, the jury returned a lesser verdict, finding him guilty of one count of second-degree murder and two counts of manslaughter in the killings.
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3 weeks ago |
nola.com | Jillian Kramer
Nearly 50 years after a man raped Jennifer Brush in her Uptown apartment, a jury delivered a conviction in the case Thursday, ending Brush’s decades-long quest for closure and justice. Ronald Craig, 69, is guilty of first-degree rape and aggravated kidnapping. He faces life in prison. Brush was a 19-year-old Tulane University student living in a Magazine Street apartment when two men, their faces covered by bandanas, entered the apartment and held her at gunpoint. One raped her.
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1 month ago |
nola.com | Jillian Kramer
Two men were killed early Sunday morning in separate shootings, New Orleans police said. A third man, according to police, was injured in one of the shootings. Shortly before 3 a.m. in Uptown, police found two men suffering from gunshot wounds. One of the men, who was located inside a silver sedan that had crashed in the 7700 block of Willow Street, was pronounced dead at the scene, police said.
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1 month ago |
nola.com | Jillian Kramer
A jury acquitted a New Orleans police officer of rape after a weeklong trial in Orleans Parish Criminal District Court. Gerry Paul, a seven-year veteran of the New Orleans Police Department, had been charged with second-degree rape following an incident on May 15, 2021, at his apartment in Mid-City.
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