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FBI seeks help in search for activist’s shooter Photos of person of interest released in Charlie Kirk’s death
BY ERIC TUCKER, ALANNA DURKIN RICHER, JESSE BEDAYN and HANNAH SCHOENBAUM Associated Press
STAFF PHOTO By CHRIS GRANGER
The Pythian Building, right center, at 234 Loyola Ave. in downtown New Orleans is for sale again after an unsuccessful attempt to sell the historic site.
PYTHIAN BACK ON THE MARKET
Deal to sell historic building falls through BY STEPHANIE RIEGEL Staff writer
The historic Pythian Building on Loyola Avenue is back on the market after an effort to sell the property to an affordable housing developer in Atlanta fell through. It was the second unsuccessful attempt in two years to sell the property, which opened in 2018 after an extensive $46 million renovation. Local surgeon and real estate investor Dr. Erik George, whose ERG Enterprises owns the 116-year-old
Pythian, hasn’t set an asking price for the building, which includes a former food hall on the ground floor, a second-floor event venue, 69 market-rate and affordable apartments and office space. But ERG Chief Financial Officer Ryan Cabos said that after the recent deals didn’t come together, it was time to get more aggressive about finding a buyer. Fewer than 60% of the building’s residential units are occupied and its commercial spaces are vacant. “Our goal with this process is to find
a purchaser who will preserve the building’s affordable components and ideally strengthen it further,” Cabos said. The sale listing is the latest chapter in the saga of the Pythian, which ran into financial trouble not long after its much-celebrated opening seven years ago. ERG Enterprises was an early investor in the project and bought out the other partners in 2022 after a lengthy court battle over the building’s finances and management.
ä See PYTHIAN, page 4A
AI, fossil fuels dominate energy forum Artificial intelligence is going to mean big changes for the energy industry. But no one knows exactly what those changes will be. That’s the takeaway from the first two days of the second annual Future of Energy Forum at Tulane PROVIDED PHOTO University, which has drawn nearly 2,000 attendees — twice as many Moderator Hridesh Rajan, left, interviews Colette Hirstius, as last year — to hear presentations president of Shell USA, at the Future of Energy Forum at Tulane from energy executives, policymakers and other experts looking University on Thursday.
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N.O. district attorney defends ‘no witness’ trials BY JILLIAN KRAMER Staff writer
at how innovation, competition and collaboration will shape the industry in the decades to come. “We’re all on this AI journey,” said New Orleans native Colette Hirstius, head of oil giant Shell’s U.S. operations, during an onstage conversation Thursday. “Some aspects of our industry will find it easier to use than others, and the answer to how it can be useful will be different in six months than today.”
ä See FORUM, page 4A
ä See TRIALS, page 6A
Tulane summit dives into future of industry plants a win. PAGE 12A
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ä See KIRK, page 6A
A criminal justice watchdog told the state Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday that prosecutors under Orleans Parish District Attorney Jason Williams had “fundamentally failed” by taking more than a dozen cases to trial before a judge with no witnesses. Williams pushed back, saying he’d disciplined his staff but that the judge in Williams question, Leon Roche, shoulders much of the blame for signaling his dim view of those cases, hobbling their prosecution. Williams also suggested a racist motive behind the latest attack on his leadership.
ä Entergy CEO: Meta power
BY RICH COLLINS
OREM, Utah — The shooter who assassinated conservative activist Charlie Kirk and then vanished off a roof and into the woods remained at large more than 24 hours later Thursday as federal investigators appealed for the public’s help by releasing a pair of photos of the person believed responsible. Investigators obtained clues including a palm print, a shoe impression Kirk and a high-powered hunting rifle found in a wooded area along the path the shooter fled. But they had yet to name a suspect or cite a motive in the killing they were treating as the latest act of political violence to convulse the United States across the ideological spectrum. The photos of a person in a hat, sunglasses and a long-sleeve black shirt, as well as a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest, suggested that law enforcement thought tips from the public might be needed to crack the case.
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