3 dead, 7 injured in South Claiborne Avenue shooting Saturday night: NOPD

[TexasTowelie]

Source: New Orleans Times-Picayune

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.

Police first reported that two people had died and six had been injured in the shooting. That notice from NOPD came at 8:59 p.m. Saturday.

Jonathan Fourcade, EMS spokesman, said three of the seven injured people were taken by ambulance to University Medical Center's trauma center. The other four arrived at the hospital by private means.

Two bodies could be seen on the ground Saturday night in front of Chicken & Watermelon, a restaurant in the 3400 block of South Claiborne. In addition to NOPD, officials from the Housing Authority of New Orleans and ATF could be seen responding in the area.

Read more: https://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2018/07/shooting_claiborne_new_orleans.html

[Hulk]

1. Just another Saturday night in the USA

Like wild fires and floods...this is part of USA society and culture these days. Sad. But let's get those darned old Islamist terrorists...cause they are gonna getcha.

[7962]

3. Just another Sat night in PARTS of America.

You rightly point out the culture issue. We have a major culture problem but nobody ever wants to mention that. Its just focus on "the gun". Well, there are 300 million of them and they're not going away, so we better start focusing on the "why".

[maxsolomon]

4. I mention the major problem of Gun Culture all the time on DU

but somehow I don't think that's the culture you mean.

as my shrink used to say: 'why' isn't the question. they question is 'how'.

how do so many americans manage to shoot other americans? because they have guns.

[7962]

5. You're right, its not.

There are many places that have many guns available, yet there isnt a High gun crime rate to match. The culture problem I bring up is the culture of violence we seem to have in so many areas. Its glamorized by some & encouraged.
And so many who are quick to say "Well if I'd had my gun _________" regardless of the situation

[maxsolomon]

6. Guns are everywhere. Poverty isn't everywhere.

I assume by "culture of violence we seem to have in so many areas", you mean black-on-black turf shootings in inner cities, like NOLA and the much-pointed-at-by-whatabouting-gunners Chicago.

Is that accurate?

Who's "glamourizing" and "encouraging" those shootings? "Some"? Who is "some"?

[7962]

7. You're assuming a culture problem means a black problem? No, its not an exclusive club

There are also white areas where gun toting is seen as the "macho" thing to do and is glamorized by social media all the time. The culture of being the badass redneck is & has been an issue.
Sure, "some" rap music glamorizes gun culture and violence all the time. That cannot be ignored. But its not just a black problem.

[maxsolomon]

8. I was guessing at your meaning

because your language is evasive and unclear.

Glad you didn't mean African Americans - what you're complaining about, I just call "gun culture".

[Judi Lynn]

2. New Orleans shooting: Gunmen on the loose after 3 shot dead, 7 injured

"We believe they stood over one of the individuals and fired multiple rounds and fled on foot," a police spokesman said.
by Dystany Muse, Brittany Morris and F. Brinley Bruton / Jul.29.2018 / 4:00 AM ET / Updated 4:23 AM ET


Two gunmen were on the loose in New Orleans Sunday after firing "indiscriminately" into a crowd outside a daiquiri shop and killing three people, according to police. Seven more were injured.

"Two individuals clothed with what we believed to be hoods ... approached from behind and opened fire — one with, we believe, a rifle and one with a handgun," New Orleans police superintendent Michael Harrison told reporters late Saturday. "They stood over one of the individuals and fired multiple rounds and fled on foot."

"This has to be personal," he added. "Firing indiscriminately into a crowd? Shooting 10 people? Killing three? That's personal, it doesn't get more personal and we take it personal."

. . .

The injured were taken to hospitals in the area. One of the victims who is thought to be in critical condition underwent surgery.

More:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/new-orleans-shooting-2-gunmen-loose-after-shooting-dead-3-n895556