MICHAEL DEMOCKER / THE TIMES-PICAYUNE A distraught woman is carried from the scene after collapsing at the scene of a seven-year-old girl shot at a birthday party on a porch in the 1200 block of Simon Bolivar Avenue just before 6 p.m. on Tuesday, May 29, 2012. In all five people were shot in the incident.
Until last week, I had cried on the job just once in my 16 years as a photographer for The Times-Picayune. That was in September 2006, when Steve Gleason flew into the left side of my camera’s viewfinder and blocked the Falcons punt into the end zone.
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I raised my camera and through the zoom lens realized with dawning horror that 5-year-old Briana Allen did not have a large pink flower on her dress. A bullet had emptied the contents of her abdomen.
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2012/06/tragedy_rips_away_a_newsmans_h.html#incart_river
Was she 5 or 7 as it is reported in the caption? All the stories say she was 5 that I have read.
https://battleofourtimes.wordpress.com/2012/05/30/fatal-shooting-at-birthday-party-in-central-city/
I feel sorry for all involved, but the fact is – this is the media making the story about themselves – knowingly or not. There is not really anything new to the story at this time, but this keeps the story going in the news even though it sheds really no new light to the case except this man’s feelings. Not that there is anything wrong with him sharing his opinion. But I have my opinion too. The story is about the little girl’s death and those who knew her and their feelings, not what some reporter or photographer think or feel about the story, or what I or the public think about the story.
That’s my thoughts, Tell’m Brick sent ya. I will deny it.
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