NEW ORLEANS -- New Orleans police said Thursday they are investigating the slaying of a 25-year-old San Francisco community activist found shot in the head in a hurricane-battered part of the city.
Kirsten Brydum had arrived in the city two days before her body was found Saturday morning in a desolate part of the city's 9th Ward neighborhood, said Marlon Defillo, assistant superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department. People in the area to gut a Katrina-damaged home found the body.
Police hadn't identified suspects or a possible motive for the homicide, Defillo said.
Brydum was an organizer of a monthly San Francisco gathering at which people exchanged goods and services called the Really Really Free Market, according to its Web site.
Brydum, described by Defillo as a "free-spirited person," was apparently on a cross-country trek when she arrived to stay with acquaintances in New Orleans on Thursday. Defillo didn't elaborate on why she was in the city.
Late Friday night, she rode a bicycle alone to a bar in the city's Warehouse District. She was last seen leaving the bar around 1:30 a.m. Saturday; her body was found on a sidewalk about seven hours later.
Kirsten Brydum had arrived in the city two days before her body was found Saturday morning in a desolate part of the city's 9th Ward neighborhood, said Marlon Defillo, assistant superintendent of the New Orleans Police Department. People in the area to gut a Katrina-damaged home found the body.
Police hadn't identified suspects or a possible motive for the homicide, Defillo said.
Brydum was an organizer of a monthly San Francisco gathering at which people exchanged goods and services called the Really Really Free Market, according to its Web site.
Brydum, described by Defillo as a "free-spirited person," was apparently on a cross-country trek when she arrived to stay with acquaintances in New Orleans on Thursday. Defillo didn't elaborate on why she was in the city.
Late Friday night, she rode a bicycle alone to a bar in the city's Warehouse District. She was last seen leaving the bar around 1:30 a.m. Saturday; her body was found on a sidewalk about seven hours later.
