[Pink.]

I don't care what her ethnicity is, or race....This shit is just plain SAD!!

It is Sunday afternoon in early fall. A 20-year-old mother is walking to a birthday party, her baby boy in her arms. Near Eagle and Birch streets, she hears gunfire. She clutches her baby closer to her chest and runs.

But for naught.

"I didn't know he had been hit till I felt something warm coming through my fingers," Ione Bolden says of her son Corey James, 32 years after the toddler was killed.

He had celebrated his second birthday that Tuesday. The family had celebrated with cake and ice cream. He was a "happy baby," his mother remembers -- even if his television hero was the exact opposite.

"He liked to imitate the Incredible Hulk," Bolden said Friday. He also liked to say, "I got some money!" and ask that relatives "go to the store for me." Precocious clearly. "Everybody would say how smart he was for his age," Bolden said.

This weekend, Bolden will be placing flowers on her son's grave: once to commemorate the day of his birth and again to memorialize the day of his death. As she does so, Bolden will be thinking of Delaaronia Galmon, a 20-year-old New Orleans mother whose 2-year-old boy was also shot to death on a Sunday afternoon in early fall.

Jeremy Galmon was shot in the face and killed a week ago as his grandmother sat with him in a car in Central City. Police have arrested five people following the toddler's murder. Jamiron Pollard, 28, and his cousin Bernell "Benny" Pollard, 21, have both been booked with first-degree murder in Jeremy's death. Three others -- Derielle Bernard, 20; Bruce Pollard, 19; Joshua Franklin, 17 -- were booked Friday as accessories after the fact. The young woman and the two young men, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said, had been "working very hard" to keep Bernell Pollard from being arrested.

Sunday afternoon two men in a Chevy Impala were driving on First Street. Police say Jamiron and Bernell Pollard fired at them as they drove past another Impala where Jeremy sat with two other children and his grandmother.

Delaaronia Galmon said Thursday, "I hope after I bury (Jeremy), people ... learn to let petty things go. Just let grudges go."

According to a March 1979 report in The Times-Picayune, Robert Smith and Malcolm Williams, the two men convicted of negligent homicide in Corey James' death, were fighting over a gambling debt. Though he was a teenager when he shot the 2-year-old in the head, Williams had already been convicted of being an accessory after an armed robbery and was therefore eligible for a stiffer sentence.

Bolden became a victims' rights advocate after her son's murder. Even so, she said, when she started looking into Williams' upbringing, "I started feeling sorry for this young man. God knows I never thought I'd feel that way." Bolden says her baby's murderer continued a life of terrorizing between getting out of prison and getting killed himself. "He was a gun toter," she said. Public records show that Williams had multiple arrests on drugs, weapons, assault and public gambling charges. His body was found in a burning car in January 1999. He'd been shot in the head.

Gun violence, Bolden said Friday morning, should be the entire community's concern, not just the concern of relatives of gunshot victims. Seeing Delaaronia Galmon struggle with her grief, Bolden said, has felt "like I'm looking at a mirror. I can imagine what she's going through." Later that afternoon Bolden had taken steps to meet with Galmon and extend her condolences to her and her family.

Galmon said in Friday's newspaper that she had "wanted to die." She wondered, "Why didn't (the gunmen) take me instead of him?" Her relatives scolded her for talking like that and reminded her that she needs to focus on raising the 11-month old daughter she still has. But Bolden wishes they hadn't fussed.

She had asked the same question when Corey was killed, she said: "Why not me?"

While the young woman's relatives are telling her to be strong, Bolden was planning to tell her, "It's OK to cry. I want her family and friends to know what she's going through" and let her "explore her pain and suffering and release it," she said.

"This is my tragedy," she hopes the grieving mother realizes, "and I should be able to handle it the way I want."


This was written by a NOLA/Times Picayune Editorial writer, Jarvis Deberry.

[Psychonautical]

Some people never really consider the consequences of their actions.

[Pink.]

Some of these people are subanimal./.I wouldnt even put them in the class with the so-called lower animals...They will shoot into crowds trying to hit one person...and they dont care!!

[Geemonster]

Originally Posted by Pink. ↗

I don't care what her ethnicity is, or race....This shit is just plain SAD!!

It is Sunday afternoon in early fall. A 20-year-old mother is walking to a birthday party, her baby boy in her arms. Near Eagle and Birch streets, she hears gunfire. She clutches her baby closer to her chest and runs.

But for naught.

"I didn't know he had been hit till I felt something warm coming through my fingers," Ione Bolden says of her son Corey James, 32 years after the toddler was killed.

He had celebrated his second birthday that Tuesday. The family had celebrated with cake and ice cream. He was a "happy baby," his mother remembers -- even if his television hero was the exact opposite.

"He liked to imitate the Incredible Hulk," Bolden said Friday. He also liked to say, "I got some money!" and ask that relatives "go to the store for me." Precocious clearly. "Everybody would say how smart he was for his age," Bolden said.

This weekend, Bolden will be placing flowers on her son's grave: once to commemorate the day of his birth and again to memorialize the day of his death. As she does so, Bolden will be thinking of Delaaronia Galmon, a 20-year-old New Orleans mother whose 2-year-old boy was also shot to death on a Sunday afternoon in early fall.

Jeremy Galmon was shot in the face and killed a week ago as his grandmother sat with him in a car in Central City. Police have arrested five people following the toddler's murder. Jamiron Pollard, 28, and his cousin Bernell "Benny" Pollard, 21, have both been booked with first-degree murder in Jeremy's death. Three others -- Derielle Bernard, 20; Bruce Pollard, 19; Joshua Franklin, 17 -- were booked Friday as accessories after the fact. The young woman and the two young men, Mayor Mitch Landrieu said, had been "working very hard" to keep Bernell Pollard from being arrested.

Sunday afternoon two men in a Chevy Impala were driving on First Street. Police say Jamiron and Bernell Pollard fired at them as they drove past another Impala where Jeremy sat with two other children and his grandmother.

Delaaronia Galmon said Thursday, "I hope after I bury (Jeremy), people ... learn to let petty things go. Just let grudges go."

According to a March 1979 report in The Times-Picayune, Robert Smith and Malcolm Williams, the two men convicted of negligent homicide in Corey James' death, were fighting over a gambling debt. Though he was a teenager when he shot the 2-year-old in the head, Williams had already been convicted of being an accessory after an armed robbery and was therefore eligible for a stiffer sentence.

Bolden became a victims' rights advocate after her son's murder. Even so, she said, when she started looking into Williams' upbringing, "I started feeling sorry for this young man. God knows I never thought I'd feel that way." Bolden says her baby's murderer continued a life of terrorizing between getting out of prison and getting killed himself. "He was a gun toter," she said. Public records show that Williams had multiple arrests on drugs, weapons, assault and public gambling charges. His body was found in a burning car in January 1999. He'd been shot in the head.

Gun violence, Bolden said Friday morning, should be the entire community's concern, not just the concern of relatives of gunshot victims. Seeing Delaaronia Galmon struggle with her grief, Bolden said, has felt "like I'm looking at a mirror. I can imagine what she's going through." Later that afternoon Bolden had taken steps to meet with Galmon and extend her condolences to her and her family.

Galmon said in Friday's newspaper that she had "wanted to die." She wondered, "Why didn't (the gunmen) take me instead of him?" Her relatives scolded her for talking like that and reminded her that she needs to focus on raising the 11-month old daughter she still has. But Bolden wishes they hadn't fussed.

She had asked the same question when Corey was killed, she said: "Why not me?"

While the young woman's relatives are telling her to be strong, Bolden was planning to tell her, "It's OK to cry. I want her family and friends to know what she's going through" and let her "explore her pain and suffering and release it," she said.

"This is my tragedy," she hopes the grieving mother realizes, "and I should be able to handle it the way I want."


This was written by a NOLA/Times Picayune Editorial writer, Jarvis Deberry.

Execute them now.

[TheHag]

I was reading that story earlier.

Fucking animals.

[Pink.]

They NEED executing.

Actually from what they have revealed about them, they should have been executed ...even if by LE....BEFORE NOW!!!

[diamount]

Police seriously need to crack down on gang fighting.

[švabo]

This kind of people should be educated before they do something like that. In this case its too late, but not in other.

[IRISH.]

These gun carrying idiots always blame others for their reckless behaviour .
"My dad was never there" or "I never had the chance to go to school cos a gang pressured me" .

Bollocks .
These gun carrying fools would shit there pants and beg for there mother if they were sent to Iraq or Afgan .
As they would be faced by some one who is willing to shoot back .

Execute these scum !

[Pink.]

once they are in police custody, you should see how some of them cry like babies.


From so-called badass to bunghole bitch....that is what happens.