“Street justice has resulted in an assurance that there would never be any closure in this case.' A young man accused of killing a high school student and the teen’s stepsister in New Orleans was gunned down on his way to court, the man's attorney said.
Double Murder Suspect Gunned Down on His Way to Court Hearing in ‘Street Justice' Killing, Attorney Says
Hollis Carter was accused of killing a high school student and the teen’s stepsister and wounding a third person in a gun sale gone bad last March. His attorney says he was innocentA 21-year-old man accused of killing a high school student and the teen’s stepsister in New Orleans was gunned down on his way to a pretrial hearing, and his mother was critically wounded, the man's attorney said.
John Fuller said he believes Hollis Carter was shot in the head on Wednesday in connection with a killing that he says his late client had not committed,“Street justice has resulted in an assurance that there would never be any closure in this case,” Fuller said. New Orleans police have said Carter confessed to killing Caleb Johnson, 18, and Breyiana Brown, 25, and wounding a third person in a gun sale gone bad on the city's west bank last March. Fuller said he had planned to argue in court that Carter made that statement because he was afraid of the actual killer.
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