WEBVTT NOTE duration:"00:03:04" NOTE recognizability:0.851 NOTE language:en-us NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.052 Now faith leaders are coming together NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:02.052 --> 00:00:04.501 around the area in an effort to NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:04.501 --> 00:00:06.535 fight the continued rise in violence. NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:06.540 --> 00:00:08.070 Now, the city's latest homicide NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:08.070 --> 00:00:10.213 came overnight when a man was shot NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:10.213 --> 00:00:12.166 and lower Algiers he was found on NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:12.166 --> 00:00:13.702 Mansfield Ave around 10:00 o'clock NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:13.702 --> 00:00:15.502 and later died at the hospital. NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:15.510 --> 00:00:17.502 So this marks the 9th homicide NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:17.502 --> 00:00:19.649 and that's in just seven days. NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:19.650 --> 00:00:21.174 Mike McDaniel joining us live now NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:21.174 --> 00:00:23.402 with how those in New Orleans hope to NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:23.402 --> 00:00:25.136 address these very serious issues that NOTE Confidence: 0.894921667894737 00:00:25.192 --> 00:00:26.935 continue to seem to plague US Mike. NOTE Confidence: 0.808682502380953 00:00:29.510 --> 00:00:31.302 Hey there Chris yeah and what's so NOTE Confidence: 0.808682502380953 00:00:31.302 --> 00:00:33.127 frustrating to so many people is there's NOTE Confidence: 0.808682502380953 00:00:33.127 --> 00:00:35.130 no one solid solution to end violence, NOTE Confidence: 0.808682502380953 00:00:35.130 --> 00:00:35.949 specifically gun violence. NOTE Confidence: 0.808682502380953 00:00:35.949 --> 00:00:38.430 It happens all over the city as we know it, NOTE Confidence: 0.808682502380953 00:00:38.430 --> 00:00:40.224 and while there are numbers that NOTE Confidence: 0.808682502380953 00:00:40.224 --> 00:00:41.730 show some alarming trends here, NOTE Confidence: 0.808682502380953 00:00:41.730 --> 00:00:44.640 there is some hope for change. NOTE Confidence: 0.808682502380953 00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:45.990 Yeah, the glass right here. NOTE Confidence: 0.776372448888889 00:00:46.220 --> 00:00:47.696 Glass and tire marks still in NOTE Confidence: 0.776372448888889 00:00:47.696 --> 00:00:49.042 his front yard. Some right. NOTE Confidence: 0.776372448888889 00:00:49.042 --> 00:00:50.547 Here are reminders for Curtis NOTE Confidence: 0.776372448888889 00:00:50.547 --> 00:00:52.327 Anderson and his wife Deborah about NOTE Confidence: 0.776372448888889 00:00:52.327 --> 00:00:53.977 how deadly violence can show up NOTE Confidence: 0.776372448888889 00:00:53.977 --> 00:00:55.809 at doorsteps across New Orleans. NOTE Confidence: 0.748939452222222 00:00:55.900 --> 00:00:58.630 Sometimes you could wake up and NOTE Confidence: 0.748939452222222 00:00:58.630 --> 00:01:00.728 get the unexpected. That's what NOTE Confidence: 0.748939452222222 00:01:00.728 --> 00:01:02.320 it was unexpected. The couple NOTE Confidence: 0.858913294545455 00:01:02.330 --> 00:01:04.100 was asleep in their Mansfield Ave NOTE Confidence: 0.858913294545455 00:01:04.100 --> 00:01:05.590 home in Algiers Thursday night NOTE Confidence: 0.891955789285714 00:01:05.800 --> 00:01:07.656 when they woke up to find a car NOTE Confidence: 0.891955789285714 00:01:07.656 --> 00:01:09.559 about a foot away from crashing NOTE Confidence: 0.93245939 00:01:09.570 --> 00:01:10.389 into the house. NOTE Confidence: 0.869427648 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:13.360 It was surprising, very surprising. They say NOTE Confidence: 0.928910261818182 00:01:13.370 --> 00:01:15.158 a young man inside the car NOTE Confidence: 0.928910261818182 00:01:15.158 --> 00:01:16.780 had been shot multiple times. NOTE Confidence: 0.928910261818182 00:01:16.780 --> 00:01:18.565 Police say he died at the hospital NOTE Confidence: 0.630224687 00:01:18.620 --> 00:01:19.883 is just sickening. NOTE Confidence: 0.630224687 00:01:19.883 --> 00:01:22.830 It's just that's all I could say. NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:22.920 --> 00:01:24.540 This is the ninth reported homicide NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:24.540 --> 00:01:26.240 in New Orleans in seven days, NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:26.240 --> 00:01:27.612 the 5th in Algiers, NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:27.612 --> 00:01:30.100 more than 20 people have been shot. NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:30.100 --> 00:01:32.860 Oh God, by your strengthened by your power. NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:32.860 --> 00:01:34.558 Bring this violence to an end. NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:34.560 --> 00:01:35.520 Praying for unity. NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:35.520 --> 00:01:37.440 Faith leaders are calling on the NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:37.440 --> 00:01:39.197 entire city to use Easter weekend NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:39.197 --> 00:01:41.210 as a time of reflection and prayer NOTE Confidence: 0.874413831666667 00:01:41.210 --> 00:01:42.944 to put a ceasefire to violence. NOTE Confidence: 0.822775593636364 00:01:43.020 --> 00:01:44.630 I was having flashbacks on NOTE Confidence: 0.822775593636364 00:01:44.630 --> 00:01:46.590 the way here of the year NOTE Confidence: 0.92730489 00:01:49.310 --> 00:01:52.446 1994. / 420 odd. Murders in our city, NOTE Confidence: 0.92730489 00:01:52.450 --> 00:01:54.802 and it was also called the bloodiest NOTE Confidence: 0.92730489 00:01:54.802 --> 00:01:57.488 year in the history of New Orleans. NOTE Confidence: 0.92730489 00:01:57.490 --> 00:01:59.418 And we are prayer for we are hopeful NOTE Confidence: 0.92730489 00:01:59.418 --> 00:02:01.720 that we don't have to repeat that again. NOTE Confidence: 0.876177376666667 00:02:01.770 --> 00:02:03.170 According to crime data presented NOTE Confidence: 0.876177376666667 00:02:03.170 --> 00:02:05.170 to the City Council, murders are NOTE Confidence: 0.876177376666667 00:02:05.170 --> 00:02:07.180 up nearly 40% since the beginning NOTE Confidence: 0.876177376666667 00:02:07.180 --> 00:02:08.790 of the year compared to this time, NOTE Confidence: 0.876177376666667 00:02:08.790 --> 00:02:11.124 last year's data shows two straight NOTE Confidence: 0.876177376666667 00:02:11.124 --> 00:02:13.250 years of increasing murder numbers. NOTE Confidence: 0.876177376666667 00:02:13.250 --> 00:02:15.626 Shootings are averaging 2 a day NOTE Confidence: 0.612136935714286 00:02:15.670 --> 00:02:17.546 when you're averaging 2 shooting a day, NOTE Confidence: 0.612136935714286 00:02:17.550 --> 00:02:20.504 it's it's bad pretty much every day. NOTE Confidence: 0.612136935714286 00:02:20.510 --> 00:02:21.750 The shape of them back NOTE Confidence: 0.8296699415 00:02:21.760 --> 00:02:23.458 at the Andersons, Curtis spent Good NOTE Confidence: 0.8296699415 00:02:23.458 --> 00:02:25.323 Friday morning cutting up the two small NOTE Confidence: 0.8296699415 00:02:25.323 --> 00:02:26.912 trees that stood in his front yard. NOTE Confidence: 0.8296699415 00:02:26.920 --> 00:02:28.555 He believes those trees slowed NOTE Confidence: 0.8296699415 00:02:28.555 --> 00:02:30.536 down that car just enough to NOTE Confidence: 0.8296699415 00:02:30.536 --> 00:02:32.240 stop it from hitting his house. NOTE Confidence: 0.8296699415 00:02:32.240 --> 00:02:33.380 He just wishes something NOTE Confidence: 0.8296699415 00:02:33.380 --> 00:02:34.805 could also stop the violence. NOTE Confidence: 0.824359833333333 00:02:34.940 --> 00:02:36.092 Things happen, you know, NOTE Confidence: 0.824359833333333 00:02:36.092 --> 00:02:37.532 we can't stop from happening, NOTE Confidence: 0.824359833333333 00:02:37.540 --> 00:02:40.246 but it's the solution to everything. NOTE Confidence: 0.824359833333333 00:02:40.250 --> 00:02:41.570 It's always a solution. NOTE Confidence: 0.915653325 00:02:46.210 --> 00:02:47.728 Police have not released any details NOTE Confidence: 0.915653325 00:02:47.730 --> 00:02:49.540 about that shooting death in Algiers. NOTE Confidence: 0.915653325 00:02:49.540 --> 00:02:50.940 These faith leaders do NOTE Confidence: 0.897479066 00:02:50.950 --> 00:02:52.550 plan on doing some missions. NOTE Confidence: 0.897479066 00:02:52.550 --> 00:02:54.210 Some outreach missions through their NOTE Confidence: 0.897479066 00:02:54.210 --> 00:02:55.870 respective ministries and they're calling NOTE Confidence: 0.897479066 00:02:55.921 --> 00:02:57.664 on all religious leaders across the city, NOTE Confidence: 0.897479066 00:02:57.670 --> 00:03:00.610 regardless of denomination to do the same. NOTE Confidence: 0.897479066 00:03:00.610 --> 00:03:02.276 Live in the French Quarter might be NOTE Confidence: 0.897479066 00:03:02.276 --> 00:03:03.360 Daniel Eyewitness News. Alright, NOTE Confidence: 0.917911578 00:03:03.370 --> 00:03:04.000 Mike. Thank you so much.