BLACK KILLCOUNT 4 WHITES: Slain Bay Area WHITE FEMALE Activist killed by BLACK SERIAL KILLER OUT HUNTING TO KILL sentenced to LIFE in prison

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SAN FRANCISCO -- A memorial service for a San Francisco community organizer killed in New Orleans last week will be held in Southern California on Saturday, family and friends have announced.

Kirsten Brydum, 25, was found suffering a gunshot wound in the 3000 block of Laussat Place at about 8:30 a.m. Sept. 27, according to the New Orleans Police Department. She had previously been seen departing the Howlin' Wolf bar on a bicycle.

Police initially had a hard time identifying Brydum, who was a core organizer for the San Francisco Really, Really Free Market. The group organizes events and urges attendees to bring food and objects to give away for free, according to its Web site.

Family members have started a memorial fund to help keep up work that Brydum is passionate about, including the Really, Really Free Market.

Donations to the Kirsten Brydum Memorial Fund can be sent to 2967 Michelson Drive, Box G-222, Irvine, CA 92612.

The service in Brydum's memory will be held Saturday at 2:30 p.m. at the St. Bernadine Catholic Church in Woodland Hills, according to www.ReallyReallyFree.org. A reception following the service will be held at Brydum's aunt home.

A reward of up to $2,500 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the suspect or suspects in the case. Anyone with information should call Crime Stoppers at (877) 903-STOP.

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She was a woman with a huge heart and a huge brain, compassionate and wise beyond her years," said a friend, San Francisco lawyer Ben Rosenfeld.:Anti-Z:
:rotfl: Could have fooled me!
"She was totally committed to fixing things in the world that are wrong," said her friend John Viola, "from little things, like making sure a lost baby squirrel was cared for by animal rescue, to giant things, like confronting capitalism."
Confronting capitalism??? You mean like offering a $2,500 cash reward to oppress a poor negro???
A reward of up to $2,500 is being offered for information leading to the arrest and indictment of the suspect or suspects in the case.
The irony in this whole mess is almost too much!:rotfl:
 
Kirsten Brydum, 25, was found suffering a gunshot wound
Kirsten Brydum, was shot & killed by a BLACK SERIAL KILLER, out of New Orleans


New Orleans serial killer pleads guilty to murdering San Francisco activist​

Katie Dowd, SFGATE
May 9, 2021Updated: May 9, 2021 7:50 a.m.

Kirsten Brydum, an SF community activist who was shot to death Sept. 27, 2008, while on a trip in New Orleans.
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Kirsten Brydum, an SF community activist who was shot to death Sept. 27, 2008, while on a trip in New Orleans.
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Joseph Brant, who already faced a mandatory life sentence in the 2008 stabbing death of Jessica Hawk, confessed to three other New Orleans killings, one of them Brydum's, according to Orleans Parish District Attorney Leon Cannizzaro.



Two days before 25-year old Kirsten Brydum was found dead in New Orleans, she posted on her blog.


"The sun is setting on the bayou-licked lands," she wrote, "and I am truly fortunate."


Thirteen years later, her killer has finally pleaded guilty. Joseph Brant, now 51, pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder in a Louisiana court last week. In exchange, he will avoid the death penalty.

Brydum, an activist who lived in San Francisco, was on a cross-country journey when she arrived in New Orleans in the fall of 2008. She'd left home on an Amtrak train, seeking "collective autonomy," her friends said at the time. As part of her trip, she protested outside the Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minn., and spoke with housing activists in Philadelphia.

In the early morning hours of Sept. 27, she was last seen riding her bike after a night spent socializing. Later that day, police found Brydum's body abandoned in the Ninth Ward; she was dead from a gunshot wound to the head. Because she was found without a wallet or purse, police initially believed her death occurred during a robbery gone wrong.

The case went cold until 2018,
when a man in custody on burglary charges made a shocking confession: He was a serial killer. Brant admitted to killing Brydum, Jessica Hawk, Jody Johnson and one other woman, whose body police have never identified, in 2007 and 2008. In his confession, he said he sexually assaulted Brydum before killing her. He was on his way to buy gasoline to burn the body, his standard method of covering up his crimes, when he told police he got in a car accident. Thwarted, he ended up abandoning Brydum's body on a street.

Despite Brant's 2018 confession, it's been a rocky road to legal closure. In multiple court appearances, he's yelled and sworn at officials, and at one point refused to sign a plea document. In 2019, an Orleans Parish criminal district court judge ruled he was mentally incompetent and could not stand trial. After treatment in a mental health facility, the case was allowed to go forward in February 2020. After pandemic delays, court proceedings have finally picked up again.

But not without more contention. He began berating his own public defenders in court Tuesday, calling one "a f—ing two-legged dog. He always got some f—ing bulls— going on." Brant refused to go forward until a Black attorney arrived to represent him. At last, Brant then pleaded guilty to the three counts of first-degree murder.

His next court appearance is slated for June 1. The families of his victims, included Brydum, are expected to read victim impact statements at that hearing.

“She was just an amazing individual that did things all directed at helping our planet peacefully coexist,” Brydum's friend Frank Lindsay told the New Orleans Advocate last week. “That’s really hard to explain to people, until you witness a soul who has that as their being."
 
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ALL 4 VICTIMS WERE WHITE FEMALES

New Orleans serial killer pleads guilty to murdering three women after Hurricane Katrina​


A serial killer who stalked downriver New Orleans neighborhoods after Hurricane Katrina pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree murder on Tuesday, finally following through on a confession he made in exchange for avoiding the death penalty.
After years of courtroom outbursts and delays, Joseph Brant gave another expletive-laden rant on Tuesday but agreed to formally enter his plea. Relatives of two women he killed will be allowed to give victim-impact testimony at a later date, but authorities have never identified a third.
In a phone interview from her Georgia home, the sister of one woman who was shot to death by Brant in January 2008 said she will stare the killer in the eye, even if it’s only over a video link.

“Me and my sister look alike,” said Jana Wood, the sister of Jody Johnson. “I want him to think he’s seeing a ghost. I just want him to know how much he took from me.” 👻


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Jessica Hawk, via YouTube

Brant, a 51-year-old who says he had an eighth-grade education, had already been sentenced to life after pleading guilty to second-degree murder in the August 2008 killing of 32-year-old botanist Jessica Hawk in her Bywater home. After his conviction in that case, he was sent to a Texas prison to serve out the remainder of a conviction in that state for burglary.

Then, Brant came forward with a chilling confession, which he gave to an investigator for the Orleans Parish District Attorney’s Office after prosecutors agreed not to seek capital punishment. Hawk was not his only victim, Brant said. In the chaotic, crime-ridden years after Katrina, he had also killed three times more.

'Serial killer' serving life for murder now accused in killings of 3 more N.O. women


Assistant District Attorney Andre Gaudin detailed the confession at the court hearing Tuesday, which Brant attended via video conference from the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Brant was cruising Galvez Street on Oct. 17, 2007 when he spotted a woman and solicited her for prostitution, according to his confession. He paid the woman for sex but she refused, so he raped her at knifepoint and choked her until she was dead, he said. 🔥 He poured gasoline on the woman's body and set the car on fire. The woman, identified as “Jane Doe” in a grand jury indictment, has never been named.



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Jody Johnson appears at a U.S. Navy function in this photo provided by her sister, Jana Wood. Serial killer Joseph Brant confessed to her January 2008 murder in New Orleans.
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Sometime before Jan. 11, 2008, when her body was found on Piety Street with a gunshot wound to the back of the head, Brant said he was again driving a stolen car and forced Johnson, 47, to perform oral sex on him at gunpoint. 🔥Then he shot her and set her body on fire.👈

Johnson was a former high school cheerleader and homecoming queen from Warner Robins, Georgia who joined the U.S. Navy, her sister said. She became addicted to painkillers for migraines while serving in the Philippines and fell on hard times.

Wood keeps a picture of her sister above the writing desk at her home in Georgia, and passes it every day.

“She was always the prettiest,” Wood said. “Everybody loved Jody.”



'I miss Kirsten's loving voice every day': Victim's family reacts to news of confession



Finally, Brant said that he killed San Francisco-based activist Kirsten Brydum, 25, after he spotted her riding a bicycle in the 9th Ward. Again, Brant said that he forced her to perform oral sex on him at gunpoint. Brant said that he was driving to get gasoline to set Brydum's body on FIRE 🔥 when he got in a car accident, which prevented him from following through. Her body was found in the 3000 block of Laussat Street on Sept. 27, 2008.




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Kirsten Brydum

Brydum had only recently arrived in New Orleans on a tour of underserved communities she was making to inform her activism, according to a close friend, Frank Lindsay.


“She was just an amazing individual that did things all directed at helping our planet peacefully coexist,” Lindsay said. “That’s really hard to explain to people, until you witness a soul who has that as their being.”

After his February 2018 confession and indictment, Brant appeared to be a on a fast-track to formally pleading guilty. But at a series of court hearings after he was transferred from Texas to New Orleans, he shouted at the judge and his court-appointed lawyers. He also refused to sign a formal plea document, for unexplained reasons.

Orleans Parish Criminal District Court Judge Robin Pittman found Brant mentally incompetent in April 2019, and he was held for treatment at the Eastern Louisiana Mental Health System in Jackson for months. Pittman found that he had the mental capacity to proceed with the case in February 2020. Then, the coronavirus pandemic shuttered the courthouse.

Brant finally signed his plea form in recent days, but at the hearing Tuesday he continued to interrupt the judge and lawyers.

“He's saying stuff I didn't even tell him, ma'am,” Brant said after hearing Gaudin’s account of his confession. Brant acknowledged killing the women but said he “only” kidnapped Brydum and “did not have sex” with her or the other victims, despite his confession about forcing them to perform oral sex.

"If you want detail, I only kidnapped one woman. That was the last woman I killed," Brant said.

A representative for Brydum’s family said that the record was clear about the abuse the women suffered.

“His delusional semantics aside, he raped Kirsten and his other victims,” said Ben Rosenfeld, a friend of Brydum’s and attorney for the family. “The suffering he inflicted, and basic sexual assault awareness, require that we remember that.”

Brant also lashed out at his lead attorney, Barksdale Hortenstine of the Orleans Public Defenders, and Gaudin, deriding them as “these White boys.”


“Barksdale is a f------ two-legged dog. He always got some f------ bullshit going on,” Brant said.



Alleged N.O. serial killer and Mid-City stabbing suspect ordered to mental hospital



Brant agreed to plead guilty after a Black attorney with the Orleans Public Defenders, Brian Woods, joined the hearing. He also seemed eager to wrap up the case, confirming with Woods that he wouldn’t return to the Orleans Justice Center or court “for no other reasons.”

Brant is scheduled to make at least one more appearance. In a statement, Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams said victim-impact testimony will be given on June 1.

“The District Attorney’s Office is pleased to have secured guilty pleas for three horrendous murders in our city by expediting the hearings, after much recent re-engagement by our team,” Williams said. “The office has been working for years to no avail on these matters, and (Tuesday) was a breakthrough moment to securing justice.”

The guilty pleas and the upcoming hearing were long-anticipated moments for Wood and Lindsay.



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Notes are painted into the sidewalk at the Jessica Hawk Garden on the St. Claude avenue neutral ground in New Orleans, Thursday, Feb. 8, 2018. Hawk was robbed and fatally stabbed in 2008. Her former fiancé, writer Lee Horvitz, who recently passed, started a community garden in her memory. Joseph Brant has been convicted of murdering of Jessica Hawk and several other women.
Advocate Staff photo by SOPHIA GERMER
Lindsay and Brydum’s boyfriend made an annual pilgrimage to New Orleans in the years after her death trying to turn up clues that would solve her murder. They felt like they had reached a wall just before Brant finally confessed, Lindsay said.

Lindsay admitted to feeling frustration during the years between Brant’s confession and his formal guilty pleas this week. He’s long been prepared to serve as a family representative at a sentencing hearing.

“I was prepared to come back,” Lindsay said. “And in between, I knew that he would be going nowhere, and that public safety would be assured that Joseph Brant wasn’t going to kill anybody else.”👈
 
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