Edison Oliver, a 30-year-old Black man, was shot on the afternoon of February 12, 2022, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Police records place the incident in the 2000 block of North Prieur Street in the Seventh Ward, where the violence unfolded quickly and left little publicly known about what sparked it. In the first moments after the gunfire, there was no dramatic police perimeter captured in widely shared reports—just the urgency of a wounded man being rushed away by private vehicle, as if the pe
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