NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Family identifies the woman killed in a double shooting in Uptown around 11 p.m. Saturday (Jan. 13) night as 25-year-old Paige Osborne.
Osborne leaves behind three children and a family desperate for answers in her death investigation. Her mother sat down exclusively with Fox 8, saying she keeps calling the NOPD but can’t get through to a detective.
“In New Orleans, do they just shoot people and kill people and that’s that?” Osborne’s mother asked.
The grieving mother says she is left without answers after her daughter’s death in the 2500 block of Soniat Street. Police on Monday said a negligent shooting killed Osborne and injured her boyfriend.
Osborne’s mother says no one from the New Orleans Police Department has contacted her about the case.
“They haven’t asked me Paige’s age. Nothing. Nobody has called me. I haven’t spoken to a detective or police,” said Osborne’s mother. “I’ve never been through anything like this. So, I don’t know how it’s supposed to go. But I know I should be talking to whoever is dealing with her case.”
On Monday, the NOPD announced the arrest of 28-year-old Ken Scott. Scott was booked into jail on one count of negligent homicide and one count of illegal possession of a firearm by a felon.
Neither father of Osborne’s children is still alive. Now, with their mother’s sudden and violent death, the children are without living parents.
The NOPD reported the boyfriend was shot twice in the leg. Osborne’s mother said her daughter was shot twice in the abdomen, one bullet exiting through her back. As emergency room doctors worked to stop her internal bleeding, she went into cardiac arrest.
Osborne’s mother says she still expects her daughter to walk through the door.
“I think I’m still numb. I don’t know if I’m processing,” said the woman. “I know that she’s gone, but it just don’t seem real yet. It doesn’t seem real.”
Despite calling the NOPD numerous times without success Sunday, Osborne’s mother says she hopes that by speaking out in public, she will get a call back.
“I call the number. It was a voicemail. I called and called and called. It was a voicemail,” said Osborne’s mother. “I don’t know how New Orleans police work, but Jefferson Parish doesn’t work like that.”
We reached out to the NOPD for more information on this shooting and whether any attempts to contact Paige Osborne’s family were made by detectives. We are still waiting for a response.
A fundraiser was started to support Osborne’s children after her death.
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