Shooting on the corner of Dante and Green

[Hevron, Marshall A]

Please see Alice-Anne's emails below concerning a shooting on Dante and Green Last night:

 

Major Glasser,

We just had serious incident on our block. Around 20 minutes ago (7:45pm, 8/6/08) two cars passed each other and started shooting on Dante Street. It was still light outside and a busy time of the evening, so several neigbors witnessed the shooting. I was inside and only heard the gunshots.

Several neighbors called immediately to report, but no police car came. One of the cars was reported to be a blue Monte Carlo or Grand Prix. Shortly after the shooting, the car came back down our block and the driver pointed at my neighbor's boyfriend, who had witnessed the shooting and was in her front yard.

The lady in the pink double on the 1600 block of Dante had a young guy washing her car and he also witnessed the shooting. They are on the right side of the double and may be willing to give a report. Todd Leavitt, a CRNA-Crime Committee member who lives across from her at 1623 Dante, knows her and can probably get you in contact with her.

Then, as my neighbors on Dante and I were talking, the second car passed down Green Street, and the woman who had witnessed pointed the car out to me. I couldn't see well, but a few minutes later, as I was talking to another neighbor, who lives in the red house at the corner of Green/Dante, a similar car passed down Green Street yet again with a suspicious-looking driver who glared at me. The license plate # was PTR-714 and it was a dark blue 4-door compact with the windows rolled down.

These two cars are likely still in the neighborhood with guns. Please have a patrol car sent to the area tonite as soon as you can to investigate and speak with the witnesses.

This is a case where quick response by NOPD might have resulted in catching these guys - they drove back around more than once - or at least demonstrated that our block does not tolerate drive-bys.

Thank you,
AA
(Chair of CRNA Crime Committee)

Here is her subsequent e-mail:

 

> Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 19:36:20 -0700
> From: tarp...@yahoo.com
> Subject: Re: urgent: drive-by gun battle on Dante/Green
> To: tsle...@gmail.com
> CC: jerry...@hotmail.com; mhe...@tulane.edu; amandaf...@gmail.com; dimar...@bellsouth.net; tilma...@kw.com; paxb...@yahoo.com
>
> Todd,
>
> Major Glasser responded to my voicemail and email at 9:20pm. He said a NOPD officer did respond (I didn't see a patrol car pass thru, did you?), but he would have a detective follow up.
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> I just spoke with a detective who will be contacting the witnesses. Major Glasser says they have some leads to the criminal activity this is connected to, and are aware of who may be involved.
>
> Stay tuned for more info to see if this leads to an arrest.
>
> AA
>