In the cool night air of a New Orleans East parking lot, a story of burgeoning life and cultural tradition was violently extinguished. Lionel Delpit, a 25-year-old male, was shot and killed on December 16, 2015, in what police have described as a targeted attack. Delpit, known in his community as 'Bumma' and the Big Chief of the Black Feather Mardi Gras Indian tribe, was not the only victim that night. Alongside him in their blue 2008 Chrysler PT Cruiser was his 23-year-old girlfriend, Breon Ste
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