Posted on 11/01/2011 9:00:38 AM PDT by ClearBlueSky
A shooting on Bourbon, at St. Louis Street, in the French Quarter about 12:30 a.m. injured seven people and killed a 25-year-old man. All of the victims were caught in the crossfire when two people began to shoot at each other in a crowd of costumed revelers celebrating Halloween, police said.
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I used to enjoy an occasional visit to Bourbon Street. I wouldn’t go there again. It’s sad to see such a great place turn into a gang infested war zone.
Update stories in today’s TP. Lots of hand-wringing by the political class. Go straight to the comments.
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/bloody_halloween_ends_with_2_d.html
Halloween shootings leave 2 dead, 14 hurt, city reeling
Published: Tuesday, November 01, 2011, 11:15 PM
By Danny Monteverde, The Times-Picayune
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/perspectives_on_halloween_shoo.html
Perspectives on Halloween shootings in the French Quarter
Published: Tuesday, November 01, 2011, 10:00 PM Updated: Tuesday, November 01, 2011, 11:06 PM
By Times-Picayune Staff
The latest spin heard locally is that this was an ‘anomaly’!
And also- the innocent bystanders shot were just ‘in the wrong place at the wrong time’.
If the main tourist attraction in N.O.- the Vieux Carre- is the wrong place, and night is the wrong time- there’s your epitaph for the city!
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/new_orleans_police_man_killed.html
New Orleans police: Man killed on Bourbon Street over Halloween was ‘intended target’
Published: Thursday, November 03, 2011, 2:50 PM Updated: Thursday, November 03, 2011, 5:27 PM
By Gordon Russell, The Times-Picayune
The GUN did it!!
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2011/11/high-capacity_magazine_used_in.html
Halloween shooter on Canal Street used gun with high-capacity magazine
Published: Thursday, November 03, 2011, 9:45 PM
By Katy Reckdahl, The Times-Picayune
Oh yeah- inanimate objects up and kill people all the time!
Every night, guns in gun stores ESCAPE and go out and kill people, they just do it real fast and sneaky! Then they go back to the shops and THAT’S why there are so many unsolved crimes!
I could scream!
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