One man killed, woman wounded in Lower Garden District shooting
A man was killed and a woman was wounded in a late-night shooting on Saturday (April 9) in the Lower Garden District, New Orleans police said.
The double shooting took place around 11:29 p.m., near the intersection of Sophie Wright and Felicity streets. The man was fatally shot and the female victim was shot in the leg, police said.
A witness at the scene, Janis Baehr, a tourist in town for the French Quarter Festival, said she was walking near the intersection and heard six to eight gunshots. She said she went to the injured woman's aid, giving her ice chips. The witness said the woman appeared to have two gunshot wounds to her leg. The woman was taken away by ambulance.
The man was slumped over the steering wheel of a silver SUV. The coroner's office is on the scene investigating.
No more information is available at this time, police said.
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