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Josiah Pujols

Case from Metairie, LA dated Dec 10, 2020

Victim Details

Josiah Pujols

Male

Black / African American

Metairie

LA

2020-12-10

16

Josiah

Pujols

07/05/2026

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On a December evening in Metairie, Louisiana, a promising young life was tragically cut short. Sixteen-year-old Josiah Pujols, a student and football player at Haynes Academy for Advanced Studies, was fatally shot on December 10, 2020. Known to his friends and family as 'JoJo,' Josiah was accompanied by his aunt, Brittany Gaskins, and a 17-year-old friend on what he told her was an errand to pick up some clothes. The outing, however, was a pretense for a marijuana deal that would end in bloodshe ...
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  • NOLA.com: Metairie parking lot massacre blamed on marijuana deal, two armed teens
  • NOLA.com: Haynes Academy student ID'd as second victim in Metairie double homicide
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