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Neighborhood rocked by homeless camp triple murder as former police officer calls for government to intervene

2025-01-07

[FoxNews] 3 Louisiana residents were murdered in a homeless camp in 2024, when the US saw 18.1% increase in homelessness

A triple homicide at a Louisiana homeless camp, allegedly spurred by a stolen bicycle, emphasizes the inherent dangers of these encampments – not just for their inhabitants, but for those in surrounding communities, an expert told Fox News Digital.
EVERY homeless camp has multiple stolen bikes. It's only a problem when they steal from each other?
On April 3, 44-year-old Mindy Ann Robert, 33-year-old Marcey Vincent and 53-year-old Warren Fairley were found dead, all shot multiple times, in a makeshift campsite, hidden from view by brush on a vacant lot in Jefferson Parish, the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office said.

Crime in these camps is a growing concern across the country, which has seen an 18.1% increase in homelessness in 2024, according to a December report from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Federal officials cited a rising number of asylum seekers, lack of affordable housing and natural disasters as reasons for the increase in homelessness.

"These homeless encampments pose a health threat and a safety threat to the general public," Mark Powell, a former reserve police officer in San Diego who oversaw the city's Monarch School for Homeless Youth while on the city's school board, told Fox News Digital. "It's the duty, it's the obligation of our city leaders, our elected politicians, to do everything they can within the law to eradicate these camps and provide the people living in the camps with the dignity they deserve through some type of shelter program."

In the Louisiana case, Noel Marine, who was known to visit the victims at the campsite, was arrested and faces three counts of first-degree murder and obstruction of justice in their deaths. He is currently being held on $100,000 bail, according to court records.

Investigators believe Vincent and Robert were homeless and lived at the campsite, while Fairley lived in a home nearby. Robert's family assumed that she was living in the area because they recently saw her panhandling at a nearby street corner, NOLA.com reported.

"Periodically, other people would stay [at the campsite] and use narcotics," Det. Ryan Vaught testified during a Nov. 19 hearing in Jefferson Parish Magistrate Court.

A man who was dating one of the female victims allegedly dialed 911 around 9:40 a.m. when he found the three bodies.

Marine, 55, became the prime suspect after his fingerprint was also found on a metal folding chair at the site. His fingerprints were in the national Combined DNA Index System due to previous convictions, including four counts of possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute and other drug charges.

He was sentenced to 15 years in prison after pleading guilty in April 2005, court records show. At the time of the shooting, he was wanted for missing court in a misdemeanor theft case after allegedly stealing from a Walmart in February of this year, according to court records.

Marine allegedly claimed that he was staying at a friend's house in Metairie at the time of the shooting, but his alibi was torn open after the friend told detectives that Marine was not there.

Although a gunshot was heard in the area around 1 or 2 a.m., according to Vaught, no one saw the killings take place. However, Marine's friend gave a statement to police after he allegedly confessed to the killings, Vaught testified.

After he was brought in for a second round of questioning, Marine claimed that another man shot the three victims. He said that he was talking to the man who confronted him at the encampment after Marine stole his bicycle. The other man brandished a gun, and Marine walked into the campsite to retrieve the stolen property, according to Marine, who said he then heard gunfire.

However, police have not named the man Marine accused, and no one else has been arrested in the homicides.

Powell said that the incident is the latest example of why the government has an obligation to regulate homeless encampments.

"In this instance, three people were murdered. That's not to say somebody jogging through the park or jogging near the homeless encampment could also become a victim just as easily as this," Powell told Fox News Digital.

"It's the duty of the city. If they're going to allow homeless camps like this, it's their duty to make sure that they're cleaned, that they're regulated, that there's some type of law enforcement presence that frequents that homeless camp on a regular basis," Powell said.

"Not once a month or when they get a call, but they have to have some type of security in there," he continued. "[Otherwise] you're going to end up with more of these incidences where there are rapes, murders, there's assault, there are batteries, there's a theft, there's rampant drug dealing – this is what you'll find in these homeless encampments."

"Many people don't even want to jog through the park because they know there's a homeless encampment in there, and they're scared – the people who are committing the crimes are the ones who are controlling the property," Powell said. "They're not paying taxes, they're not doing anything yet. [But] the people who do pay the taxes who do not commit crimes, they're the ones who are impacted."

Posted by:Skidmark

#3 A high percentage of mental illness and substance abuse in a community of folks living close together in shared poverty will always percolate with violence and theft. Three dead of gunshots seems strange unless they were all inebriated. Homeless folks usually sleep light and know when to book it. Marksmanship among tweakers is also not generally good.

Posted by: Super Hose 2025-01-07 13:55

#2
The Augusta, GA. since around the April 2024, has been having a number of Homeless murders, assaults, disappearances, and a few reported "Accidental deaths".

A few of us come in contact with a handful on a regular basis. While we are passing out food, bottled water, warm coats, cloths and donated used sleeping bags to the "really homeless" here on the overlooked South-Side.

Because we have a large VA here, we see a lot of homeless US VET's. And yes, even a few Vet widows living on the streets.

While we are handing things out, we are hearing from them, that police aren't looking too hard into the deaths, assaults and accidents. Many have taken to sleeping during the morning hours, and staying up at night for safety reasons.

May be things will change as Augusta/Richmond Co. just got a new Sheriff.

Posted by: NN2N! 2025-01-07 10:47

#1 We've seen homeless 'thrill-kills' before.

Posted by: Skidmark 2025-01-07 08:58

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