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Guard Killed in NO FEMA Park

Emergency Management Alert, March 6, 2007

NEW ORLEANS - A security guard at a FEMA trailer park was shot to death Monday in the latest violence to wrack the city still struggling to recover from Hurricane Katrina, police said.

The shooting, around 5:15 a.m., was at a trailer park in Gentilly, a section of the city that flooded during Katrina. A few hours earlier, another man was shot and killed near the Guste public housing complex.

The latest violence brought the number of homicides in the city to at least 32 this year. Last year, New Orleans counted 161.

Police spokeswoman Sabrina Richardson said the security guard was shot in the face in a security booth at a gate leading into the site. She said two other security guards were on duty at the time, but one was at the park's back gate and another was in a bathroom. The other guards told investigators they did not hear the shot, Richardson said.

That same day, FEMA evacuated of nearly 60 families from an FEMA trailer park in Hammond, LA, about 45 miles northwest of New Orleans, because of sewage leaks and power outages. FEMA officials said Monday that all the displaced families had at least temporary new homes and they hoped to dismantle the site by the end of the week.

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