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