A beloved figure in the New Orleans cultural landscape, 55-year-old Kim Boutte, a female, was tragically killed on August 11, 2020. Known as 'Big Queen Kim 'Cutie' Boutte,' she was a prominent Mardi Gras Indian queen, leading the Spirit of Fi Yi Yi and the Mandingo Warriors. Her death sent ripples of grief through a community that revered her as a cultural bearer and a devoted teacher of tradition.
On that Tuesday evening, Boutte was attending a funeral repast in New Orleans East. The gat
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