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NOLA Assistant District Attorney commits suicide
Posted on 1/5/25 at 10:41 am
Posted on 1/5/25 at 10:41 am
WWL-TV
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NEW ORLEANS — An Assistant District Attorney with Orleans Parish DA’s office has died by an apparent suicide sources have confirmed.
WWL Louisiana can confirm that the D.A. assistant's identity is Ian Kersting.
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The NOPD initial report said the victim was found suffering from an "apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound." EMS arrived on the scene and pronounced him deceased.
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Posted on 1/5/25 at 10:44 am to rt3
Posted on 1/5/25 at 10:44 am to rt3
Prayers sent and oh boy.
Posted on 1/5/25 at 10:46 am to rt3
He knew too much. RIP
Posted on 1/5/25 at 10:47 am to rt3
He must've seen some shite:
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Assistant District Attorney Ian Kersting, who worked on sex crimes cases in the Orleans Parish DA’s office, died by suicide in his office on January 4, 2025. He was 34 years old and had been assigned to the SAKI unit, which investigates and prosecutes sex crimes cases using DNA evidence. Additionally, there are other individuals named Ian Kersting, including one who lives in Gretna, Louisiana, and another who is 33 years old and resides in New Orleans.
Posted on 1/5/25 at 10:55 am to rt3
Both sides of the criminal legal system deal with extreme stress basically non-stop. You're constantly dealing with people at their most stressed/most needy/worst (whether defendants or victims/families), you can never reasonably separate from it, you're dealing with gruesome/traumatic material, and everything you touch is extremely important and will have catastrophic impacts if things go wrong.
It's honestly surprising this doesn't happen more often, but it's a gutshot every time it does.
It's honestly surprising this doesn't happen more often, but it's a gutshot every time it does.
Posted on 1/5/25 at 10:55 am to rt3
That has to be a very hard job to deal with what he does day to day. Then throw in possible personal problems and it’s horrible.
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:11 am to rt3
Can’t imagine what it must be like to be someone who gets into this line of work hoping to make a difference and then just getting beat down over and over.
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:16 am to St Augustine
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Can’t imagine what it must be like to be someone who gets into this line of work hoping to make a difference and then just getting beat down over and over.
Of which there is literally zero indication that type of thing had anything to do with this. Again, the constant politicization of every god damned thing is fricking gross. I don't know this guy personally, but a quick google search of their SAKI unit shows that he was working to prosecute cold cases by clearing the SANE kit backlog as part of a grant. If you're under the impression that those kinds of cases are "catch and release", I'm not sure what to tell you.
SAKI Grant Award Page
ETA: For anyone coming through later, see next couple of posts for context before replying
This post was edited on 1/5/25 at 11:34 am
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:21 am to Joshjrn
I thought the guy was making a point that was sort of echoing what you said in your initial post here. 
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:23 am to Y.A. Tittle
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I thought the guy was making a point that was sort of echoing what you said in your initial post here.
If so, I apologize. I think the post before got me a bit on a hair trigger regarding the politicization issue, so I interpreted the post as "prosecutor tries to better society, but the shite judges and juries keep coddling the criminals so he doesn't accomplish anything".
But if I was wrong on that, then I absolutely apologize to St. Aug
ETA: For added context, I just noticed that the other post I was referring to, and my reply to it, have been hidden/deleted, so now this reply looks entirely out of left field
This post was edited on 1/5/25 at 11:33 am
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:24 am to rt3
RIP Ian.
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:36 am to Joshjrn
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Of which there is literally zero indication that type of thing had anything to do with this. Again, the constant politicization of every god damned thing is fricking gross.
What about
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Can’t imagine what it must be like to be someone who gets into this line of work hoping to make a difference and then just getting beat down over and over.
was even remotely political? Are you sure you were quoting the right thing?
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:39 am to St Augustine
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was even remotely political? Are you sure you were quoting the right thing?
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If so, I apologize. I think the post before got me a bit on a hair trigger regarding the politicization issue, so I interpreted the post as "prosecutor tries to better society, but the shite judges and juries keep coddling the criminals so he doesn't accomplish anything".
But if I was wrong on that, then I absolutely apologize to St. Aug
ETA: For added context, I just noticed that the other post I was referring to, and my reply to it, have been hidden/deleted, so now this reply looks entirely out of left field
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:41 am to tiggerthetooth
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Additionally, there are other individuals named Ian Kersting, including one who lives in Gretna, Louisiana, and another who is 33 years old and resides in New Orleans.
Did the AI kind of slip out there with this bit?
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:41 am to Joshjrn
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For added context, I just noticed that the other post I was referring to, and my reply to it, have been hidden/deleted, so now this reply looks entirely out of left field
Fair enough but td.com absolutely does not alter replies to different posts if one gets deleted. Be better
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:43 am to rt3
White guy?
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:44 am to notiger1997
Had a family member that worked as an investigator for the state with the online children sex crime division. Those individuals are doing God's work and have the utmost respect from me. I can't even fathom having to do that day in day out.
Posted on 1/5/25 at 11:46 am to St Augustine
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Fair enough but td.com absolutely does not alter replies to different posts if one gets deleted. Be better
As always, I quoted the post I was replying to in full in my reply, as I'm doing here. It's standard TD practice (and forum practice generally) to delete replies that quote an offending posts if that post gets deleted. I wasn't saying it was done automatically; I was saying it was done intentionally
But again, I genuinely apologize for misinterpreting your post
Posted on 1/5/25 at 12:25 pm to rt3
Let's hope this is the beginning of a new trend for those scumbags.
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