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New Orleans police indicted in
A deadly gunfight on a bridge in the anarchy-filled days following Hurricane Katrina became a symbol of the city's loss of control.
Now, more than a year later, seven police officers face charges in the shootings.
A grand jury indicted the officers on murder or attempted murder charges Thursday in the September 4, 2005, deaths of two men and wounding of four other people on the Danziger Bridge.
One of the victims was a mentally retarded man, Ronald Madison, who had been shot seven times -- five times in the back, according to the coroner.
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Ex-officer charged in taped be
A former New Orleans police officer charged in the videotaped beating of a man after Hurricane Katrina apparently shot himself to death about a month before his trial, authorities said Monday.
The body of Lance Schilling, 30, was found Sunday in a suburban Metairie home. An autopsy showed he died of a gunshot wound to the roof of the mouth, Jefferson Parish coroner's office said.
Schilling and another former officer were accused of beating Robert Davis, 64, a retired school teacher who had returned to New Orleans to check on his property several weeks after the storm.
An Associated Press Television News (APTN) team recorded Davis being kneed and struck at least four times on the head by two police officers the night of Oct. 8, 2005.
Davis was booked on municipal charges of public intoxication, resisting arrest, battery on a police officer and public intimidation.
All charges against him were later dropped.
Schilling's attorney, Franz Zibilich, said he was saddened by his client's death. He said he believed the suspected suicide had no connection to the pending trial, which had been set for June 29.
The former officer faced five years behind bars if convicted of second-degree battery.
"The truth be known, he was looking forward to having this matter tried and heard," Zibilich said.
New Orleans Police Department spokesman Marlon Defillo said Schilling had not been with the department since December 2005.
In a related matter, charges against a third officer accused of a misdemeanor charge of simple battery against APTN producer Richard Matthews were dismissed on June 1, according to Eric Hessler, the officer's lawyer.
Stuart Smith was suspended for 120 days and remains on the police force. He was accused of roughing up Matthews at the French Quarter scene in October 2005.
State District Judge Frank Marullo threw out the charge against Smith because prosecutors improperly used a statement Smith made to the police department, Hessler said. "This … case was not handled properly from day one," Hessler said.
Hessler said the district attorney's office intends to appeal. A district attorney's spokesman did not immediately return a telephone call seeking comment Monday.
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