Man shot to death in New Orleans
by The Times-Picayune
Sunday April 20, 2008, 3:59 PM
From staff reports
A man was fatally shot Sunday in Gentilly, becoming the seventh person slain in four days in New Orleans.
As Michael Allen, 32, was getting out of a vehicle in the 4700 block of Miles Drive Sunday shortly before 1 p.m., a man approached and opened fire, New Orleans police said.
The gunman escaped on foot, and Allen died a short time later at University Hospital, police spokeswoman Sabrina Richardson said. An autopsy will be performed today.
Authorities think Allen lived in New Orleans, but an identification document listed an address in Atlanta, said chief coroner's investigator John Gagliano, who released his identity.
The killing occurred between Paris Avenue and Overton Drive, two blocks south of Mirabeau Avenue.
Meanwhile, the coroner's office released the identities of three of the previous six slaying victims, all New Orleans residents.
Nathaniel Osborne, 19, was shot to death Saturday shortly before 11 p.m. in the 2500 block of Upperline Street, near Freret Street. He died at the scene.
Antoine Martin, 18, was shot to death Saturday about 6:40 p.m. in a trailer park in the 6000 block of Chef Menteur Highway, a block east of Downman Road. He died at the scene, 100 feet north of Chef Menteur, of one gunshot wound to the head, Gagliano said.
Richardson said Martin was involved in a physical altercation with a man, and the man shot him. The gunman fled in a brown van.
Yohance Shabazz, 18, was shot to death Friday about 11 p.m. in the 2300 block of Seminole Lane, near Jackson Avenue and midway between South Claiborne Avenue and South Galvez Street.
The previously identified victims were Lorne Simms, 20, shot Saturday about noon in the 1400 block of North Johnson Street; Keith Williams, 23, shot Friday about 8:45 p.m. in the 2200 block of Dufossat Street, near Freret Street; and Guy McEwen, 20, shot Thursday about 5 p.m. in the 700 block of Peniston Street between Constance and Laurel streets.
Williams and Osborne were killed several blocks apart. Williams died after his car struck Friar Tuck's bar, although the bar was not related to the slaying.
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