Now AP saying Army contractors were shot on a bridge. Is it possible that the NO police were trigger-happy and shot the wrong people? I would think Army Corps contractors would likely be armed.
Thanks SamAdams76, I heard that, sad, sad situation.
By BREAKING NEWS
Updated: 6:14 p.m. ET Sept. 4, 2005
NEW ORLEANS - Police shot eight people carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge Sunday, killing five or six, a deputy chief said. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said the victims were contractors on their way to repair a canal.
The contractors were walking across a bridge on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to fix the 17th Street Canal, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Corps.
Earlier Sunday, New Orleans Deputy Police Chief W.J. Riley said police shot at eight people, killing five or six.