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Crime may be down in New Orleans, but many of the city's bad guys seem to be turning up in Houston, which finds itself caught in the cross hairs of an apparent gang war between Hurricane Katrina evacuees from two rival housing projects. On Friday, Houston's newly formed Gang Murder Squad announced the arrest of eight men from New Orleans suspected in 11 murders in the Houston area over the past three months. "These guys are hooking up with friends and old rivalries are beginning again," Sgt. Brian Harris, a Gang Murder Squad investigator and the top detective...
...Houston Police Department has acknowledged in recent weeks that a surge in violent crime is directly attributable to the criminal element that evacuated New Orleans after the hurricane. Murders in Houston, which took in an estimated 150,000 evacuees from New Orleans, shot up by nearly 25% last year and are already up 50% in January from the year before. In Sacramento, California police captured a 20-year-old New Orleans native accused of gunning down two other evacuees in a Houston apartment complex. Other states are reporting similar problems. Three Katrina evacuees from New Orleans were accused earlier this...
...When the Gang Murder Squad began investigating a series of Houston-area shootings starting in November, detectives quickly discovered a tie among the victims and suspects. Police said the same nicknames and the same vehicles kept popping up in various attacks. "Of 23 Katrina-related homicides in Houston, we linked nine to just two groups from New Orleans-the 3'n'G and the Dooney boys," Harris told TIME. The Dooney boys, who come from the Magnolia Projects just west of downtown New Orleans, home of the slain rapper Soulja Slim, are old rivals of the 3'n'G (named...
...September and October were relatively quiet while the evacuees reconnected with family and friends. But as they got FEMA money, settled in and began to acquire cars, they started moving around Houston."By November, the Houston nightclubs were having New Orleans nights," says Harris, when the groups would sometimes spot old rivals in the parking lots of clubs. Often, Harris says, "These shootings were dope deals gone bad." The shooters were heavily armed with everything from pistols and shotguns to AK-47s, and three suspects remain at large...
...local pecking order isn't kind to outsiders. At the top are the natives, then the Johnny-come-latelies, followed by the tourists--who are vermin in most resort towns. But in Aspen, the bottom slot goes to guys like David Massarano, a prosperous real estate attorney from Houston who recently dropped $470,000 for three slices of a one-bedroom condo in the six-week-old Hyatt Grand Aspen, 157 steps from the gondola at the base of Aspen Mountain...