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Nicola Diane Cotton

Case from New-orleans, LA dated Jan 28, 2008

Victim Details

Nicola Diane Cotton

Female

Black / African American

New-orleans

LA

2008-01-28

24

Nicola

Diane Cotton

07/02/2026

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In the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans, a place she knew from her own childhood, 24-year-old Police Officer Nicola Diane Cotton was on patrol alone on the morning of January 28, 2008. A two-year veteran of the New Orleans Police Department, she was dispatched to the 2000 block of Earhart Boulevard shortly after 9:30 a.m. There, she encountered a man named Bernel P. Johnson, who was 44 at the time and sitting on a curb. Officer Cotton, who was eight weeks pregnant, was informed, it would ...
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