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Subscribe to RSSUpdated at 6:35 a.m. ET: Two men and two women were shot in New Orleans' Bourbon Street after gunfire broke out while crowds gathered in the countdown to annual Mardi Gras festivities, police said on Sunday morning.
Three of the victims were listed in stable condition while a male victim underwent surgery and was listed in critical condition, New Orleans Police spokesman Frank Robertson said.
The shooting happened at around 9:30 p.m. (10:30 p.m. ET) after one of the victims got into an argument with two men, Robertson said.
The two men left but soon returned, according to police. One then shot one of the victims in the abdomen, upper thigh and pelvic area, and fled the scene, Robertson said.
Police released video filmed by a bystander on a private camera that showed a crowded and chaotic street scene.
According to the police, the footage shows the two men arguing with the first victim and leaving the scene. They soon return and start shooting the first victim.
In addition to the first victim, one woman was shot in the buttocks and a second in the chin and right foot. As second male victim was shot in the toe, police said.
The Associated Press earlier reported the following:
Patrick Clay, 21, an LSU student, told The Times-Picayune he was standing on the corner of Bourbon Street when suddenly he saw a crowd running and people screaming that there was a shooting.
"Everyone immediately started running and the cops immediately started running toward where people were running from," Clay said. "I was with a group of about seven people and at that point we all just kind of grasped hands and made our way through the crowd as soon as possible."
Afterward, police moved in to investigate. Many revelers said they stayed hunkered down in bars and other establishments until police cleared them to move freely.
Crowds gather each year in New Orleans' French Quarter for celebrations that build to a climax on Fat Tuesday, which this year falls on February 12.
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Public castration might be the best gun control. People like these clowns should not breed.
I guess these guys just wanted to get their shooting done before any new gun laws go into effect.
Once those new laws come into play,these guys will become model citizens and join the Peace Corps.
Or maybe they'll just ignore the new laws and keep up their mischievous ways.
The 'real' men and women of this country died off with the 'greatest generation'. It should be compulsory that every man and woman arm themselves and attempt to defend themselves before calling 911.
The people of the 1940's and 1950's didn't take crap from anyone. They understood after two world wars that to prevent what we have today you gotta get out there and go after these azzholes that want what you have but don't want to work for it like you did.
Back in those days people didn't lock their doors at night, left the keys in their cars, and the kids could walk at night from the library without fear. It's time we started raising our kids that way again, make them brave and law abiding, and willing to stand up for their rights.
@snake3
What you posted is SO politically incorrect, but oh so true.
Snake 3 You are dead on. Thank you.
Ah, the New Orleans hommies haven't lost their touch. And to think Katrina would think them re-evaluate life.
77 you have to be able to reason before you can evaluate life again. To be able to reason, you have to be able to think. That will not happen.
All I saw was blacks being surrounded and harassed by some whites, then of course (because we ALL NEED GUNS) one of the black guys came back (because of some mental illness) and started shooting because he thought his life was being threatened.
Alcohol was surely a common denominator here.
When you are in a danger zone and leave it, is really stupid to come back into it.
No being stupid is the common denominator.
Imagine if everybody had been armed in that crowd, just like the NRA likes..... nobody in the back would know who the shooter is, so anybody doing the defensive shooting would have been shot also.
How do you know there were not armed people in the crowd and they held their fire because of the danger to the crowd?
Here's a tip for the RedBull and Vodka crowd...Stay away from New Orleans unless you want to get vomited or urinated on. My company would hold their conventions each year at the convention center during the week leading up to Fat Tuesday. Around 7am each morning I would be out for my jog through the downtown streets of New Orleans. When I would turn down the roads to the French Quarter the smell was horrible. Feces, vomit, urine, combined with food that was thrown on the streets and the occasional smell of Diesel fuel and burnt something. It is an extremely nasty place to travel to even outside of festival. The town should have washed away during the great storm of 2005. I'm all about having fun but New Orleans isn't the place to go. Black youths roam the area with weapons and have the upper hand because it is their turf. Same for Detroit, Cleveland, Chicago, and smaller cities in the southern states. It is not about guns. Blacks will always shoot each other (and others) because of their of DNA programming. Sad for them. At least whites make a big news event when killing 20-30 people at a time. You never hear of a black running into a school or theater with an AR-style rifle. At least not yet.
Texas,
I was told the same thing by my brother when he had to go to N.O. He said it was awful. He mentioned the booze, human waste and vomit. he said it was a shame. If you want to drink and wake up dead then go to the Big Easy...
Once again proving that if you want to stop 90% of the gun related crime in America ban black people.
Unfortunately this violent behavior by street gangs goes on all year long in New Orleans. In the past the gangs did not venture into the crowds of the French Quarter. But in the last couple of years they have become more violent with the tourist.
The locals know where to go and when to go to certain places in the city.
It would be nice if the media would start focusing on the problem of the violent gangs and ask specific questions to our politicians on how to fix this problem.
Where is Ray Lewis?
He is modeling for his statue in Baltimore which will have him running with a knife in one hand.
Don't want to be the conspiracy nut I am, but I am thinking if the King of Nugatar was visiting a cotton candy party, there would be a strange shooting until Obama gets his social agendas passed.
Bourbon street is crazy. Black guys run home to get their guns, come back and shoot some drunks they had provoked..... I am certain their guns were legally registered and the appropriate background checks were complete. Heck, they were probably on the double secret government mental illness database to boot.
This is why I stay home and drink......
This is not a gun problem. It's a race problem. It's tearing the country apart. The USA is doomed.
Wow!!! Violence in "Chocolate City?" Say it isn't so. New Orleans is desperate to become the Chicago of the South. Seems like they are well on their way.
We don't have a gun problem, we have a violent minority problem.:)
Guns don't kill people, minorities with guns kill people.
Black on black crime, no loss. Just ask Chicago. Very sad to think that way.
Blacks commit 75% of the violent crimes in this country. The problem isn't just limited to this country, either: South Africa has among the highest rates of violent crime in the world (far higher than an impoverished Hispanic, Asian or White nation), and over one out of three women have been raped there.
So the problem isn't a gun control issue; the problem is a race-related issue. The only way to curb gun violence in this country is through sweeping and massive deportations--not gun control legislation.
Glenn BECK?...is that you?
They wanted a real New Orleans down and dirty Mardi Gras experience, right?
Hunt them down and nail them to the wall. The video means its only a matter of time until they are caught. Their mugs are now on police computers. With face recognition software, they will be caught soon enough.
Its time to put the screws to every murderous thug in the nation. On both sides of the badge. The tech to do it is there, use it. 100% accountability is possible. But it must apply to all, not just civilians.
Do something about the damn criminals not law abiding ones. Taking away guns from honest citizens only makes us vulnerable to the criminals in the streets and in the government. Look what happened in Mexico when gun bans happened. Over 55,000 dead in the past three years from criminals killing anyone who gets in their way. The citizens are not allowed guns. The Mexicans gave up their freedom for the promise of safety and what they got was far worse living under a corrupt government and criminals terrorizing them. The politicians who would destroy the second amendment should be brought up on traitor charges.
Mexico's criminals have guns only because they can smuggle them in from the US. The main supplier of illegal guns in the entire world. Even terrorists in Ireland smuggle guns from the US.
Stronger gun laws in the US would effect more than just Americans. It would save lives through out the Americas and in Europe.
There should be more international pressure on the US to clean up its act.
Putting Eric Holder behind bars, would be a good start.
Strong laws mean nothing when the BATFE and the US Justice Department ignore their own laws and lose 2,000 assault rifles to the Mexican criminal cartels.
If their dope can end up everywhere in the USA,what makes anybody think those rifles wont?
More Justice Your kidding right? Mexico gets guns from many other sources not just the US. They get them from China and Russian models have been picked up. Watch when ME shipments are exposed going into Mexico. Mexico is not a friend. You need to study history and see how many times gun bans was the precursor to hostile takeover of civil liberties and inevitably lead to mass murder of civilians. Research the facts and get your head out of the mainstream propaganda machine. Hundreds of millions of unarmed civilians have been murdered by governments. There is no comparison in sheer numbers between civilian deaths by governments and deaths as a result of soldiers killing soldiers.
Finally you fail to recognize that Mexico has a gun ban and its law abiding citizens are at the mercy of the criminals. Criminals will not turn in their guns and the governments of the world have shown that they will not or can not protect citizens when the citizens do not have the means to protect themselves.
What a sensible mix - guns, alcohol, and crowds.
Dick2100935 - Nobody is a criminal before they become a criminal and in many cases it is a gun that is involved in that cross over from the law abiding citizen to the criminal threshold.
You can kill as many people as you want with a gun and are not a criminal until you get caught, prosecuted and convicted. Then you become a criminal.
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And it amazes me how many think that they can get avoid getting caught.
I got a chuckle from the "Two men" v. "Two Black males". I guess the readers must assume that "Two men" are White and not Asian, Indian, African, Latin or any other ethnicity.
Where were all the "good guys" who were packing guns? I thought that is the new thing, good guys around with guns to go after the bad guys with guns. I see it didn't work this time!
The "good guys" avoid places where trouble is anticipated.
Besides, what normal rational person wants to involve them-self with people getting $hit faced, puking all over, pissing and $hitting themselves, passing out and all the other 'events' taking place during Mardi Gras? The locals just watch all those college idiots from up north come down and spend their money like the suckers they are.
Where were the good guys? Where were the cops?
The important thing is that they catch this black coward and hang him.
Dead people never re-offend.