Another Sad Day In New Orleans

This morning the Times Picayune reported the death of the New Orleans police officer who was shot last month.

Detective Thelonious Dukes, 47, died shortly after midnight Friday in University Hospital due to complications from his gunshot wounds, police sources said.

Two gunmen surprised Dukes and his wife around 3 a.m. on Oct. 13 as he worked on his motorcycle in his garage in the 100 block of Kristen Court, off Bullard Avenue.

Dukes was shot in his lower torso and leg, and his wife was shot in her foot.

This makes me sad and I wonder whether New Orleans will ever truly recover. One would think that the devastation, from Hurricane Katrina, would lead people to take stock of their life and realize that nothing in this life is worth killing someone over.