Charles Alvin Guzman Sr.

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      Sex: M

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Individual Information

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     Birth Date: 21 Apr 1926 - New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
    Christening: 
          Death: 5 Nov 1976 - New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana, USA
         Burial: 8 Nov 1976 - Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, Jefferson, Louisiana, USA
 Cause of Death: .22 gunshot wound to the head, probable suicide.
Events
•  Soc Sec Num: 439-20-7654. 

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Parents

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         Father: John Evariste Guzman Sr.
         Mother: Barbara Silbernagel

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Spouses and Children

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Notes

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General:

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 Times-Picayune 1/29/1946 Page 24
Charles Guzman, 19, 1725 Louisa street, and Arthur Pool, Jr., 20, No. 44 Martin Drive, charged with aggravated criminal attack on a 16-year-old girl on December 8.

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 Times-Picauyune 9/27/1972 Page 64
Orleans, Jefferson Records of the Day
Civil District Court - New Suits Filed
Vera S. Guzman vs. Charles A. Guzman Sr., separation.

Per Times-Picayune 11/28/1972
Orleans, Jefferson Records of the Day
Civil District Court - Suits Filed Judge Garvey
Vera A. Guzman vs Charles A. Guzman, Sr., Judgement by default.

Per Times-Picayune 7/23/1976
COURT RECORDS
Civil District Court - Suits Filed
Vera Anna Saltoformaggio vs. Charles A. Guzman Sr., separation.

Per Times-Picayune 9/9/1976 Page 47
COURT RECORDS
Civil District Court - Suits Filed - Judge Levy
Vera Anna Saltaformaggio Guzman vs. Charles A. Guzman Sr., show cause.

Per Times-Picayune 11/6/1976 Page 48
Man's Gunshot Death Probed
The gunshot death of Charles Guzman, 50, 1241 Feliciana, was under investigation Friday pending an autopsy by the Orleans Parish coroner's office.
Guzman, who had been despondent because of poor health, was found dead at his residence about 11:30 a.m. Friday by his wife, Vera, authorities said.
The body was on a bed, and a .22 caliber rifle used to inflict a head wound lay on Guzman's chest, said Louis Ivon, executive administrator of the coroner's office.
Dr. Frank Minyard, coroner, scheduled an autopsy for Saturday.

Per Times-Picayune 11/07/1976 Page 20
GUZMAN
Charles Alvin Guzman, Sr., on Friday, November 5, 1976, beloved husband of Vera Saltaformaggio; son of the late Barbara Silbernagel, and John E. Guzman, father of Mrs. Charlene Balliviero, and Charles A. Guzman, Jr., step-father of Mrs. Theresa Shaw, Mrs. Patricia Bulot, and Emile Naquin; brother of Mrs. Doris Hadley, Calvin and Johnny Guzman; also survived by 5 grandchildren, age 50 years, a native of New Orleans, La.
Relatives and friends of the family, also members of Gulf Engineers Local No. 270, Ironworkers Local No. 58, and American Standard Local No. 220, and employees of Schwegmann's Brothers Gentilly Store, are invited to attend the funeral. Services from the funeral home of Lamana Panno Fallo, Inc., 625 N. Rampart S., on Monday, November 8, 1976 at 2 o'clock p.m. Requiem Mass in parlor.
Interment Metairie Cemetery.
Friends may call from 6 p.m. until 11 p.m. Sunday.

Per Social Security Death Index
Name: Charles Guzman
SSN:439-20-7654
Born: 21 Apr 1926 Died: Nov 1976
State (Year) SSN issued:Louisiana (Before 1951)

Research:

Possible other marriage 6/15/1954 T-P Marie A. Catalanotto Guzman vs. Charles Guzman, judgement of divorce.