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A Gray-Haired Victim
Baptiste Thilo, seventy-five years old and a fixture of the French Market for years, is shot by a young man who says only, "I'm sorry that I shot him" — followed by a second, unidentified man pulled off a meat wagon and killed.
Baptiste Thilo, aged seventy-five, shot near the French Market"Oh, he is an old Negro. I'm sorry that I shot him."A second, unidentified victim pulled from a meat wagon