2 Albany men die in separate shootings

• By CHRISTINE MORGAN ARCENEAUX
• Advocate Florida parishes bureau
• Published: Jul 25, 2009 - Page: 4B

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In what for now appears to be just an eerie coincidence, two men, both who lived on North Café Line Road in Albany, were gunned down on the same road — which separates Tangipahoa and Livingston parishes — within seven hours of one another Thursday.

Clifton Calcota, 31, Albany, died Thursday night at North Oaks Medical Center in Hammond after being shot at 4 p.m. while standing near Drake Road, the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office said Friday.

In a similar drive-by shooting at 11 p.m. Thursday, Gregory Charles Brumfield, 27, Albany, was shot at the intersection of Ed Brown and Drake roads. The Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office said Brumfield died Friday, also at North Oaks Medical Center.

Perry Rushing with the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office said their office has not been able to connect the two homicides, which happened within 100 yards of one another, on the Livingston-Tangipahoa line.

“We have not uncovered any evidence that the two are related,” Rushing said, adding that both law enforcement agencies are working together to solve the killings.

In the first incident, Tangipahoa deputies arrived at Puma Drive at 4 p.m. after receiving reports of a shooting. But they found nothing at the scene. Later, they learned that Calcota had been taken to North Oaks Medical Center where he was being treated for a gunshot wound to the hip. He died later.

Witnesses told deputies that they and Calcota were standing near Drake Road when a small four-door green car with a rugged finish passed them heading north.

The car turned around on Willie Harris Lane and then headed back toward them, witnesses told deputies. The suspects fired four to eight shots from the vehicle striking Calcota before speeding away.

Tangipahoa deputies said they are looking for the driver, who witnesses say was a black man with dreadlocks and wearing a white T-shirt and red bandana over his face. Witnesses also described a passenger as a black man with dreadlocks and wearing a red T-shirt.

In the second incident, Livingston deputies said Brumfield was shot multiple times. Deputies found Brumfield just north of the intersection.

He, too, was taken to North Oaks Medical Center, where he died.

No other information, or whether there were any witnesses, was available.

Anyone with information in either shooting is asked to call the Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff’s Office at (985) 345-6150 — or the Livingston Parish Sheriff’s Office at (225) 686-2241.