No reports of looting or rioting.
The weekend was an especially bloody one in New Orleans, as six shootings across the city killed five and wounded 11, including two toddlers. One of the deaths was a suicide, in which police said a man killed himself after shooting his friend and refusing to exit his hotel room at the Westin in the French Quarter, prompting an hours-long standoff with the NOPD’s SWAT team.
2 men wounded in eastern New Orleans
According to police, the violence began around 5 p.m. Friday, when a drive-by shooting wounded two men, ages 23 and 66, who were standing in the 4200 block of Dale Street in eastern New Orleans.
2 men shot dead on I-10
Two men were shot dead around 3:25 a.m. Saturday while riding in a tan Toyota Corolla on Interstate-10 eastbound, near Crowder Boulevard, in eastern New Orleans. Police did not provide the victims’ ages.
Resident shot while inside Gentilly home
A 25-year-old man was sitting in the front room of his Gentilly house around 11:10 p.m. Saturday night, when he heard gunshots. He ran to the rear of the house, in the 2400 block of Lavender Street, and realized a bullet struck him in the hand. An ambulance transported him to a hospital in stable condition, police said.