This is unreal. Last year at 14-years-old Marshall Coulter was shot in the head during a suspected burglary at 2am. The shooter/homeowner was unfortunate enough to be a victim of the “Trayvon Effect” (charge all white folk who are defending themselves) and was charged with 2nd degree murder. The 14-year-old is now 15…..
LOUISIANA – A 15-year-old who survived being shot in the head last July by a Marigny homeowner was arrested Friday (May 2) in a residential burglary in the Marigny, according to two law enforcement officials. Marshall Coulter was shot last July by homeowner Merritt Landry, who later told police he believed the teen was breaking into his home.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak about the investigation.
They said Coulter was detained Friday afternoon by 8th District detectives after a resident in the 2000 block of Royal Street reported a burglary of their home. It was not immediately clear how police linked him to the crime.
New Orleans police spokesman Officer Frank Robertson III said officers detained a 15-year-old boy around 3:45 p.m. and booked him on a simple burglary charge. He said the investigation was ongoing and that no more information would be forthcoming. No court or jail records were available in the case.
The Coulter family could not immediately be reached. A former neighbor said they moved in recent months.
Coulter was left with serious injuries after the shooting, his family has said. Coulter was still undergoing surgeries, including the removal of part of his skull, in December, his mother told NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune at the time. She said her son had trouble walking, talking and eating. (continue reading)
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Original Story From JULY 2013 – Natalie Jackson Almost Kills Another Black Boy – This One 14-years-old In New Orleans….
Another recent shooting story is being discussed. In New Orleans a 14-year-old black boy was shot, and the shooter arrested and now charged with attempted 2nd degree murder.
Quickly the Justice for Trayvon advocate types are rallying around “another Trayvon“, but this story does not pan out. However, the bigger conversation being avoided is within the surrounding details.
First the details as reported by the local media: NEW ORLEANS – A 14-year-old boy remained in critical condition Friday after being shot in the head by a homeowner who said he thought the teen was trying to break into his house. But police said the teen was unarmed and did not pose an “imminent threat” when he was shot and have charged the owner with attempted second-degree murder.
David Coulter, 23, said he largely raised his seven siblings, of which Marshall Coulter was the second-youngest, after their father died three years ago of stomach cancer.
The family of Marshall Coulter said the teenager could move only the right side of his body a little, but not the left. Doctors told the family that if Coulter survives, he would likely be severely brain damaged.
Coulter’s family acknowledged the teen’s history of burglary arrests but said he had never used a gun.
Police said that Coulter did not pose a threat to the homeowner, Merritt Landry, who works as a building inspector for the Historic District Landmarks Commission.
Police said the teen was near Landry’s vehicle when he was shot about 2 a.m. Landry’s friends said the vehicle was in the driveway behind a gate just a few feet from the house’s backdoor.
According to an NOPD arrest warrant, Landry shot Coulter from 30 feet away, evidenced by the distance between the blood found on the ground and the single bullet casing outside Landry’s house in the 700 block of Mandeville Street.
Landry told police that he approached the boy from his front yard, near his vehicle. As he grew closer, he said, the boy made a “move, as if to reach for something” — possibly a weapon — so Landry shot him, the warrant states.
[…] Landry’s attorneys, Michael Kennedy and Miles Swanson, issued a statement after the arrest saying, “This incident is terrible, and Mr. Landry feels terrible about how things have occurred. Nevertheless, we remain convinced our client has done nothing wrong, and we are sure — as facts come to light — it’ll become clear that Mr. Landry will be fully exonerated of any wrongdoing.”
A spokesman for the City of New Orleans said Landry has been placed on emergency suspension without pay, pending the outcome of the criminal investigation.
Meanwhile, Coulter’s mother would not leave his hospital bedside. His grandmother and older brother sat outside the family’s home on Elysian Fields Avenue on Friday afternoon, grieving and upset.
Coulter is the seventh of eight children. Coulter’s 23-year-old brother, David Coulter, said he had largely raised the children after their father died three years ago of stomach cancer. David said he and his mother did his best to keep Marshall out of trouble.
Marshall Coulter, who had been on medication for attention deficit hyperactive disorder, was awaiting trial for “stealing stuff,” his brother said.
“He would steal — he was a professional thief, sure,” David Coulter said. “But he would never pick up a gun, not in a million years. He was too scared to aim a gun at the grass, let alone aim it at a person. No way. Before he’ll ever pick up a gun, he’ll be your friend first.
[…] “Merritt is a friend. I can’t blame him one bit,” Charles Hazouri said. “He’s got a family. You’ve got to protect your own.”
Hazouri, who owns property near Landry’s house, said his surveillance cameras captured two juveniles riding BMX bikes up and down Mandeville and Dauphine streets around 1:44 a.m. One of the teens was wearing a blue tank top with white stripes; the other was wearing a light-colored T-shirt, Hazouri said.
Earlier in the evening, a different neighbor said the teen in the blue tank top had been biking around the area around 8 p.m. and the neighbor believed he was looking at different houses.
“I thought about calling the cops, but the last thing I want to do is racially profile a little kid who’s just biking,” said the neighbor, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The neighbor and Landry are white; the two teens are black.
Hazouri said his video, which he gave to NOPD detectives, shows the two teens talking in the middle of Mandeville Street outside of Landry’s house. The video then shows the teen in the light-colored T-shirt walk his bike across Mandeville toward Landry’s house. Then, the teen walks back out to the middle of the road before climbing over Landry’s fence, Hazouri said. The other teen in the tank top stayed on the other side of Mandeville Street, Hazouri said.
Landry’s large dog started barking, which alerted Landry to the teen being inside his yard, according to Landry’s friends. (PLEASE READ FULL ARTICLE DESCRIBING EVENTS)
As mentioned the Justice for Trayvon types have latched on to the story. They have outlined the narrative in this article: ‘Already, another Trayvon Martin incident has just happened’ – And the New York media jumps at the potential for another explosive reader narrative with their story: ‘New Orleans teen shot in the head by man who thought he was burglar’.
The New York papers even try to help the Justice for TM crowd by lying directly to their readers:
Merritt Landry, 33, fired one shot at a teen when he saw him in his front yard on Mandeville Street in the Marigny around 2 a.m., according to the NOPD. (link)
Unfortunately for the crews who would love nothing more than additional fodder for the drum beat of race war, this story will not get the traction they demand.
Despite the newly required liberal media disclaimer “unarmed” being well positioned in the immediate narrative, the reasons for the lack of traction are obvious:
•The kid one of 8 children, •he was 14-years-old, •out unsupervised at 2am, •having jumped the fence into private property, •with a history of theft, •history of arrests, and •obvious school discipline issues, as admitted by his single mother.
Without Benjamin Crump, Natalie Jackson and Daryl Parks, to manufacture a false story to cover these factual issues, the majority of middle America, Black and White, will just not sympathize with the thug-in-training wheels. He is a full 3 years away from being Trayvon Martin style useful.
However, the missing aspect, the saddest aspect, is embedded within the story itself.
He did not need to get shot, but political correctness (ie. Cultural Marxism) as outlined by Natalie Jackson stopped something from happening. As the local article described:
“I thought about calling the cops, but the last thing I want to do is racially profile a little kid who’s just biking,” said the neighbor, who spoke on condition of anonymity. The neighbor and Landry are white; the two teens are black. (link)
The PC media adds that last line to explain why the neighbor was reluctant to call the police when she/he noted the kids casing houses:
The neighbor and Landry are white; the two teens are black.
See, there it is right there in front of you. The neighbor did not want to be thought of as “profiling”, or, heaven forbid, a Zimmerman type, who would call the police. No, this neighbor thought about it, but weighed the considerations and just decided calling the police was just too risky.
The neighbor put their common sense in a box, and decided to listen to the embedded narrative from the Natalie Jackson, Sybrina Martin, Ben Jealous, Al Sharpton crowd.
Like a good little white-guiltiest he/she put her common sense in the PC lockbox and decided to shut up.