In the late summer of 2017, the life of 33-year-old Eric Cole was tragically cut short on the streets of New Orleans. On the evening of Wednesday, August 9, 2017, Cole was shot and killed in the Algiers neighborhood, a community across the Mississippi River from the French Quarter. The incident added another statistic to the city's persistent struggle with gun violence.
Details surrounding the circumstances of the shooting remain scarce in publicly available reports. Authorities were aler
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