NEW ORLEANS — A white man who fired a shotgun at three black men in a race-based attack amid the devastation of Hurricane Katrina was set for sentencing Thursday in a federal courtroom in New Orleans. Prosecutors were seeking a 10-year prison sentence for Roland Bourgeois Jr., who pleaded guilty to two federal criminal counts in October. The shooting happened roughly three days after Katrina hit the Louisiana and Mississippi Gulf Coast on Aug. 29, 2005. Prosecutors said that he and others had discussed shooting black people and defending the Algiers Point neighbourhood of New Orleans from “outsiders” after the storm. That agreement said his prison sentence would be at least five years and at most 10 years.

Source: National Post February 14, 2019 06:24 UTC