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Residents tell of struggle after shanty blaze

By JADE RUSSELL Tribune Staff Reporter jrussell@tribunemedia.net

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A MOTHER of six is desperate after a fire ripped apart a shanty town on Monday, destroying the place she called home for more than a decade.

Juliane Olibrice told The Tribune she was one of the several people coping in the aftermath of a fire in a shanty town off Joe Farrington Road. As the rain poured down her face, she said: “I’m working, but like, the little money I making can’t buy everything back. My children, where we sleeping, it’s raining now, and water leaking inside.”

‘Gun only seen after police taped off area’

By PAVEL BAILEY Tribune Staff Reporter pbailey@tribunemedia.net

A WOMAN testified in the Coroner’s Court yesterday that footage capturing the aftermath of Deangelo Evans’ policeinvolved killing in 2018 was erased after police confiscated her phone, but that she later retrieved the video with the help of Evans’ father.

Patricia Charles’ footage showed the 20-year-old Evans bleeding on the road as a crowd confronted police in the chaotic aftermath of his shooting death on Masons Addition in 2018.

She testified yesterday that the gun that officers claimed Evans had before they killed him only appeared at the scene after police taped off the area. She said she and her young niece were walking

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