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Man Who Fled Katrina Shot Dead in Tenn.
By BILL POOVEY, Associated Press Writer
A man who sought safety from Hurricane Katrina in Tennessee was gunned down in the street and died, possibly during a robbery of his Red Cross relief money.
Don Maurice Airline, 24, of Metairie, La., was found on a secluded road with five gunshots to his head. Days before he was killed last week, the Red Cross gave him a debit card worth several hundred dollars.
Detective R. Kenneth Freeman said he knew of no other such killings of Katrina refugees and was sorry the shooting happened in Chattanooga, where the Red Cross, churches and social agencies are helping hundreds who fled Katrina.
Investigators found five handgun shell casings with Airline's body, less than a mile from a Red Cross shelter where he had stayed. Police were investigating whether robbery was the motive; no one has been charged.
Airline's mother, Sheila Airline, described the death as "just senseless."
"For someone to take my child's life, they robbed him. I know they robbed him because the Red Cross gave him money and the detective can't find it," she said Thursday in a telephone interview from Kenner, La.
Her son had left a Chattanooga nightclub with at least two men and a woman hours before his body was spotted early Saturday on a weedy roadside in south Chattanooga, Freeman said.
Sheila Airline, 41, said she went to stay with relatives in Louisiana when she evacuated Aug. 28, while he first went to Houston with some cousins.
"I told him to be careful," his mother said. "I told him, 'You're going to Houston and that's a strange city and you don't know what to expect. You be careful until you get home again."