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Obituary: Raymond Myles (1958-1998)

November 1, 1998 by: OffBeat Staff

No one would hurt Raymond Myles...

But someone did; a coward with a gun snuffed out the life of the 40-year-old gospel singer and all-around entertainer. Last month, just hours after playing the Ninth Ward's Free Music Festival, Myles was found dead—a bullet through his heart—on a New Orleans street corner.

So many times, the crimes that we read about in the newspaper or hear about on the network news are faceless (nearly nameless), an odd assortment of violent verbs and vow...

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