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We Meet You in the Kitchen If you are reading this, you have already survived the thing no parent should have to survive. Your child walked out the door and did not come back. You are reading this because the loss is still in the room — every hour, every morning, every time you walk past the place his jacket used to hang — and because you are trying to answer a question that no parent should have to answer: how could this happen, and who is going to be held responsible. Your son was 15. He was new to New Orleans. The family had moved from Georgia only a few months before, and he was working over the summer, doing what 15-year-olds do when they are new in a city and somebody hands them an invitation. He went to a party at a house on St. Maurice Avenue in the Lower 9th Ward. The party was the kind of party the neighborhood already knew about — neighbors had been complaining about it for years. Two teenagers had already been killed in a mass shooting at the same address in 2022. The house had no permit to operate as an…