Father Terry names New Orleans victims as murder count spikes in American cities

By Nick O'Malley
Updated September 13 2015 - 1:33am, first published 12:15am
Father Terry wanted the city to notice the people whose lives had been buried in the murder statistics. Photo: Joshua Brasted
Father Terry wanted the city to notice the people whose lives had been buried in the murder statistics. Photo: Joshua Brasted
Even as government agencies spend money on flood levies for New Orleans, many of its people remain dire poverty. Photo: Joshua Brasted
Even as government agencies spend money on flood levies for New Orleans, many of its people remain dire poverty. Photo: Joshua Brasted
Deacon Joyce Jackson would note the names of the dead on a card and deliver them with a rose to the chief of police. Photo: Joshua Brasted
Deacon Joyce Jackson would note the names of the dead on a card and deliver them with a rose to the chief of police. Photo: Joshua Brasted

Murder wasn't new to Father Bill Terry when he took over a parish in the New Orleans neighbourhood of Treme and began a project to focus the city's attention on its terrible death toll.

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