Family members of the 73-year-old victim, who was gruesomely murdered on Monday afternoon, have gotten little to no sleep as the killers are in custody.
The phone keeps ringing in addition to friends stopping by to console the family.
“To be honest, my oldest sister is probably one of the strongest and I don’t know how she’s keeping it together because I really can’t,” said JinnyLynn Griffin, younger sister to Linda, as she fights back tears. “She was my go-to. My mom died when I was 34. I’m 60. So Linda was always here. We lived here for years together.”
The 73-year-old victim, Linda Frickey, was brutally murdered after being carjacked on Monday afternoon by four teenage suspects. Cops found her body stuck in her seatbelt with her arms ripped off. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
“We are very angry. I never ever would want to wish that on another human being,” said Kathy Richard, Linda’s sister-in-law. “Just open the door. He kicked…try to kick her out but it didn’t work. How could you kick her? It’s just beyond comprehension. It’s evil. And you don’t just go from being in school to just taking a walk, to killing somebody. It was murder. Downright murder.”
Richard told WAFB that Linda was set to retire in one month and was planning to spend more time together with her retired husband, family and friends, and especially their granddaughter.
“Linda should have lived to be 100 years old still helping everybody,” said Richard. “She didn’t have the chance to see her son get married next year and her granddaughter was only seven years old. She didn’t get enough time with her. She did not deserve to go that way.”
“can’t say this enough: When they pulled away and she was in that strap, they made the decision to murder her. They should pay for it,” said Griffin.
The New Orleans Police Department said they have arrested four juvenile suspects in connection with the fatal carjacking that took place in New Orleans on Monday.
“The mother of one of the 15-year-old female suspects turned her daughter in to police. Later in the evening, officers located and arrested the male suspect and one of the female suspects at the location after receiving information from the male suspect’s parents,” NOPD wrote. “The remaining female suspect surrendered to police this morning (March 22).”
