Calvin Francis Guzman
Sex: M
Individual Information
Birth Date: 28 Aug 1923 - Louisiana, USA
Christening:
Death: 26 Oct 2000
Burial:
Cause of Death:
Events
• Soc Sec Num: 433-14-1154.
Parents
Father: John Evariste Guzman Sr.
Mother: Barbara Silbernagel
Notes
General:
Per 1930 US Census Series T626 Roll 806 Page 258:
3253 Urquart St, New Orleans, LA Head of Household is Barbara Guzman, who rents the house for $16 a month. She is a 35 year old white female, married when she was 26, born in Louisiana as were her parents. She lives with her two sons, ages 7 and 6, Erauste and Calvin, and her brother Henry Silbernagel. Henry is 37 years old, single and employed as a meter repair man for the city.
Per 1940 US Census: 5/6/1940, 1722 Louisa, 9th Ward, New Orleans, Orleans, LA
John Guzman is the 50 year old white male head of household. He rents his hone for $12 a month. He and all family members were born in Louisiana, and lived in this same house in 1935. John, with a 5th grade education, works as a painter in house construction, and in 1939 worked 4 weeks and earned $80. He is seeking work and has been unemployed for 16 weeks. His wife, 45 year old Barbara Guzman, also had a 5th grade education, worked 42 hours in the census week of March 1940. She is a looper in a hosiery mill, and earned $662 in 1939 while working 49 weeks. Their oldest son, John Jr., is 17 years old, finished 1 year of high school, worked 48 hours a week in March, and earned $364 in 52 weeks of work in 1939 as a truck driver in retail fur. Francis Guzman, 16 year old son, also finished 1 year of high school, is an office boy in retail fur, worked a 48 hour week in March, and earned $182 in 26 weeks of work in 1939. Charles Guzman, 14 years old, attends school and has finished through 5th grade. Doris Guzman, 7 year old daughter, attends school and has finished through 1st grade.
Per U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946
Name: Calvin F Guzman
Birth Year: 1923 Race:White, citizen (White)
Nativity State or Country: Louisiana State of Residence: Louisiana County or City: Orleans
nlistment Date:22 Feb 1943 Enlistment State: Louisiana Enlistment City: New Orleans
Branch: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA Branch Code: Branch Immaterial - Warrant Officers, USA
Grade: Private Grade Code: Private
Term of Enlistment:Enlistment for the duration of the War or other emergency, plus six months, subject to the discretion of the President or otherwise according to law
Component: Selectees (Enlisted Men)
Source: Civil Life
Education:1 year of high school
Civil Occupation:Semiskilled occupations in mechanical treatment of metals (rolling, stamping, forging, pressing, etc.), n.e.c.
Marital Status: Single, with dependents
Height: 67 Weight:148
Per Times-Picayune 4/16/1954 Page 25
Records of the Day - Births
Calvin Francis Guzman, Hotel Dieu, boy.
Per Times-Picayune 7/1/1960 Pages 1 and 2
[3 Photos of shooting victims - Caption - WOUNDED IN A TRIPLE SHOOTING, these victims arrive Thursday night for emergency treatment at Charity hospital. A police crash truck crewman (left photo) helps carry Mrs. Doris Lannes, 27, into the hospital's emergency room. In center photo, Mrs. Lannes brother, Calvin Guzman, grimaces in pain as he is lifted from a crash truck. At right, Mrs. Lannes 9-month-old daughter, Bernadette, is rushed into the hospital for treatment of an elbow wound.]
Shooting Spree of Jobless Worker Leaves Three Hurt
Estranged Wife, Infant Among Victims
An unemployed sheet metal worker went on a shooting spree in a crowded camp house in Little Woods Thursday night, wounding his estranged wife, 9-month-old daughter and his wife's brother.
Two hours after the shooting police arrested Bernard Lannes, 42, 1636 Sauvage, and booked him on three counts of attempted murder.
Lannes was apprehended at 2837 St. Ann about 10:45 p. m. by two members of the police tactical squad.
Police said Lannes stalked into the camp about 8:30 p. m. with a .22 caliber pistol in his hand and started shooting.
Before he was overpowered, Lannes had wounded his wife, Doris, 27; their daughter, Bernadette, and his wife's brother, Calvin Guzman, 34 Carroll dr., Chalmette.
Guzman's brother, Charles Guzman, 34, 2701 Mexico, rushed from a shower bath when he heard the shooting. He grappled with Lannes, took the gun from him and beat him over the head with it, police said.
Guzman then ran to a nearby camp and telephoned police. When he returned, Lannes ran to his car and fled.
SEPARATE AFTER FIGHT
Members of the Guzman family said Mr. and Mrs. Lannes had been separated about two weeks.
Mrs. Barbara Guzman, 68, 3036 Marais, mother of Mrs. Lannes, said the couple separated after fighting in a barroom. She said her daughter danced with another man. Lannes, she said, became infuriated.
"He broke a bottle and went after her," said Mrs. Guzman. "He tried to cut her with the bottle but cut the baby instead. It wasn't a bad cut, though."
Police said there were 14 persons, six adults and eight children, in the camp when the shooting began.
The wounded were rushed to Charity hospital in police crash trucks. Mrs. Lannes was treated for wounds of the chest and arm. Guzman was wounded in the chest. The Lannes infant was wounded slightly in the elbow. Their conditions were said to be good, according to hospital attaches.
The camp house is about 300 feet east of the intersection of Paris rd. and Hayne blvd.
PERSUED AND WOUNDED
Mrs. Barbara Guzman said she and her daughter and son Calvin were sitting in a front room of the house when Lannes walked in. Mrs. Lannes was holding her daughter in her arms, she said.
"When she saw it was him, she got up and ran with the baby toward the rear of the house," Mrs. Guzman said. "I ran out the door and he ran after her. Then I heard the shots."
Mrs. Charles Guzman said she saw Lannes firing and thought: "Oh, they're blanks."
"My husband called from the shower when he heard the shots," she said. "I told him 'It's Bernard and he's shooting but it's only blanks.'"
She said she got her three children out of the house. When she returned she said, she saw her husband beating Lannes on the head with the pistol.
SHOUTS 'DON'T KILL HIM'
She shouted at her husband: "Don't kill him."
Charles Guzman said he heard the shooting while he was taking a shower.
"It sounded like firecrackers,: he said. "I rushed out and saw Lannes and realized he had shot my brother and my sister and my sister's baby.
"My brother was holding him and Lannes still had the pistol.
"I took the pistol away and hit him over the head with it."
Charity hospital attaches said Calvin Guzman was transferred to Touro infirmary for treatment late Thursday night.
Per Social Security Death Index
Name: Calvin F. Guzman
SSN:433-14-1154
Last Residence:70056 Gretna, Jefferson, Louisiana, United States of America
Born:28 Aug 1923
Died:26 Oct 2000
State (Year) SSN issued:Louisiana (Before 1951)