re: Update: Alleged Perp in custody: Garret James Ward of BR for 2nd Degree murder

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Again, you weren't fricking there.

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no but the coroners report coincides with what the witnesses are saying

Yeah it's the perfect crime. A 60 year old diabetic holds someone up in the lower Garden District. Ward, a stalwart of all that is good, disarms him until the victim has a concussion, and then two witnesses, who were in on it with the victim, all tell the same story. That's some The Wire level storytelling, with much less believability.

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Yeah it's the perfect crime. A 60 year old diabetic holds someone up in the lower Garden District. Ward, a stalwart of all that is good, disarms him until the victim has a concussion, and then two witnesses, who were in on it with the victim, all tell the same story. That's some The Wire level storytelling, with much less believability.

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It doesnt seem that far fetched for me to believe multiple vagrants could be together causing trouble.....


However, I do not think that was the case here

They confirmed video evidence?

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doesnt seem that far fetched for me to believe multiple vagrants could be together causing trouble..... 

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Yes a gang of vagrants setting up a regular everyman sounds like an every day occurrence. It's a tale as old as time.

Man this thread has gone to shite

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Yes a gang of vagrants setting up a regular everyman sounds like an every day occurrence. It's a tale as old as time.

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I wouldnt think the vagrants planned to have one murdered moron, I would say they planned to have the everyman give them his money.......

Given how unlikely that situation is, sure. But I don't think that's what happened here, you don't think that's what has happened here, but you apparently think that's a possible cogent defense for Wards behavior. Believe what you like bub.

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He was probably piss arse drunk, in a foul mood, and Jackson and him had words about something that set him off and it turned tragic.

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This is my best guess.

I can walk from my front door to the scene of the crime in about 45 seconds. There's a crew of older guys who hang out on the sidewalk from in front of the Red Zone store to the corner of St. Andrew pretty regularly between noon and 2 a.m. They'll do standard stuff like block the sidewalk with their bikes so pedestrians have to stop, then ask them for money. I've never seen any of these guys get physical with passers-by, but they make it difficult to get by and get very testy when people refuse to give them money--"f you whitey", really vulgar comments to women, spitting at people, etc.

I've never really felt threatened by any of this crew, nor do I specifically recognize Jackson as ever hanging around them--just trying to offer some context. But I can easily see a very drunk guy going off the rails when someone spits at him. That certainly wouldn't justify kicking Jackson in the head once he was on the ground though.