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SUPREME COURT OF LOUISIANA
No. 98-KA-0406 STATE OF LOUISIANA versus PHILLIP ANTHONY On Appeal from the Criminal District Court, For the Parish of Orleans, Honorable Julian A. Parker, Judge CALOGERO, Chief Justice* On Sunday morning, December 1, 1996, in the French Quarter in New Orleans, four employees of the Louisiana Pizza Kitchen, Cara LoPiccolo, Santana Meaux, Michael Witkoskie, and Damien Vincent, were systematically shot, one by one, in the restaurant's tiny walk-in cooler. The booming report of the gunshots, delivered by a potato-shrouded .357 revolver, reverberated in the cramped cooler. The ensuing silence belied the horrible scene: Cara LoPiccolo, a wife and mother of two, dead, slumped on the lifeless body of Santana Meaux, an elementary school teacher moonlighting as a waiter, across from Michael Witkoskie, a tenor with a love for music and drama, whose nearly dead body rested beside Damien Vincent, the wounded sole survivor. Meanwhile, the restaurant safe was open, with its contents, $2,549.84, save the coins, taken by the perpetrators. In January 1997, an Orleans Parish grand jury indicted defendant, Phillip Anthony, and three co-defendants, Malcolm Hill, Tracey Marquez, and Sidney Anthony, with three counts of first degree murder in the deaths of Cara LoPiccolo, Santana Meaux, and Michael Witkoskie, committed during the perpetration or attempted perpetration of an armed robbery and/or where the offender had the specific intent to kill more than one person, in violation of La. Rev. Stat. 14:30(A)(1) and (3).
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Kimball, J., not on panel. See Rule IV, Part 2,

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