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Via NOLA Com:
Three people have died and seven more have been injured in a shooting reported in the 3400 block of South Claiborne Avenue on Saturday night (July 28), according to the New Orleans Police Department, and two suspects are suspected to be on the loose in relation to the shooting.
In a press conference minutes after midnight Sunday, New Orleans Police Chief Michael Harrison said initial reports from the scene indicate two people wearing hooded sweatshirts stepped in front of “a large crowd” at a daiquiri shop late Saturday and opened fire. One of the people appeared to have a rifle, Harrison said, and the other used a handgun.
The pair, Harrison said, “appeared to fire indiscriminately” at the crowd, though they stood over one individual and fired more than once at that person before they fled the scene on foot toward Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
Police first reported two people had died and six had been injured in the shooting. That notice from NOPD came at 8:59 p.m. Saturday.
Two bodies could be seen on the ground Saturday night in front of Chicken & Watermelon, a restaurant in the 3400 block of South Claiborne.
Nearby, in the 2800 block of Louisiana Avenue, officers could be seen standing on the front porch of a home with a squad car parked outside. Crime scene tape was wrapped around the front of the home, and a person could be heard grieving loudly nearby.
As officers began investigating the rainy, noisy scene near the restaurant on South Claiborne Avenue on Saturday, a fight broke out amongst onlookers, which police quickly quelled.
A silver Toyota sedan was parked outside the restaurant, and its driver’s side door was open with the car’s hazard lights on. A man’s body was seen lying in front of the door to the restaurant, and another body was on the ground behind a screen police typically use for shielding crime scenes. The area was littered with more than 20 evidence cones as party buses rolled by the scene late into the evening.
Sounds of shouts and crying were heard throughout the chaotic scene late Saturday and into Sunday, some of which was caused by confusion as families and friends looked for loved ones. One woman asked bystanders for information because she was unable to locate her boyfriend, who had been at the nearby restaurant Saturday minutes before the shooting.
Two people — including a woman screaming “That’s my son. Someone please talk to me. Tell me what happened to my son.” — tried to run across the police line, and one woman was escorted away from the scene as she pleaded for one of the victims to “get up.”