While there's part of me that finds it amusing that a 20-year old Gregriana Kennedy of New Orleans talks trash on Facebook, goes to her adversary's house to continue the "discussion" face-to-face, and ends up getting her ass whooped, the part where the 20yo brings a gun to the fight takes this from merely a silly social media story to something much more serious:
About 6 p.m., Kennedy, abandoned her computer and arrived at the teenager's residence, according to a statement the teenager and a friend provided police.
The teenager told investigators she was standing outside her residence near a carport when Kennedy arrived in a green car, got out of the car with a gun in her right hand and began waving it around, according to the police report.
The teenager said Kennedy then announced, "If anyone jumps in this fight, I'm going to shoot them." Kennedy then threw the gun in the grass and ran toward her, the teenager told police.
Well, that's a start, at least, that it appears she didn't intend to shoot anyone. Still, a twenty year old psycho woman is no person to have a handgun.
Now for the incredibly disturbing part, how Kennedy came about having the gun in the first place:
The handgun, according to police, was reported stolen in 1992 during an attempted murder. The victim in that incident was a woman who lives on Curran Boulevard and "that address is that same one given by the arrested subject, Kennedy," according to the police report.
Now, if Ms. Kennedy is twenty, that means she was two years old in 1992. Did this handgun pass from one generation to another in that family? Even serious gun registration laws would find that difficult to address.
So, someone in the house where this Kennedy girl lives picked up a gun when she was an infant, and now she'll be off to St. Gabriel for a few years' hard time as a result. There's no reason this gun should have been accessible to a hotheaded young woman.
(h/t to @humidcity for tweeting the @nolanews article)
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