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Two Shot Dead in New Orleans; UPDATE: Seven Wounded; Who Will Sully Blame?

Posted on | April 10, 2010 | 17 Comments

NEW ORLEANS — “Honey, I’ve got good news,” I told my wife in a phone conversation a few minutes ago. “I’m still alive.”

The news wasn’t so good for two people four blocks away from where I was having dinner Saturday night:

The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a 9:15 p.m. shooting in the 700 block of Canal Street, near the corner of Royal Street, according to authorities.
There are reportedly multiple victims.
The French Quarter Festival, parts of which went on Saturday not far from the scene of the shooting, was scheduled to wrap up at 9 p.m. It is not yet known who the victims are, and no other details are immediately available. . . .

The only detail that is immediately available is that I’m alive and well. And my wife is happy about that. Because she has reserved the exclusive right to shoot me dead, a right that she has not yet chosen to exercise. And that’s also good news.

UPDATE: CNN reports:

Two gunmen remain on the loose after a shooting in New Orleans, Louisiana that left seven people wounded, authorities said.
The shootings took place Saturday night, right after the French Quarter festival, which featured weekend musical performances on different stages.
Six of the victims were bystanders, police said.
A 17-year-old man was the intended target and suffered chest injuries, a spokesman for the New Orleans Police Department said. He was one of two teens injured.

Obviously, this crime was committed by enraged Tea Party activists who had been watching Glenn Beck and were incited to murder by Sarah Palin’s SRLC speech. Or at least that’s Andrew Sullivan’s theory, pending an FBI investigation.

Category: Crime, Fear and Loathing in the French Quarter

Comments

17 Responses to “Two Shot Dead in New Orleans; UPDATE: Seven Wounded; Who Will Sully Blame?”

  1. Jack
    April 11th, 2010 @ 4:38 am

    Chuckles Johnson the hardest hit.

  2. Jack
    April 10th, 2010 @ 11:38 pm

    Chuckles Johnson the hardest hit.

  3. Nice Deb
    April 11th, 2010 @ 4:56 am

    We were walking to The Court of the 2 Sisters where we had dinner, and walked right by a victim sprawled out in the street, with emergency personnel in attendance…it was at the vicinity you noted, but the time was around 8:40 or so. I took a pic. I figured that it was just someone who had had too much to drink.

  4. Nice Deb
    April 10th, 2010 @ 11:56 pm

    We were walking to The Court of the 2 Sisters where we had dinner, and walked right by a victim sprawled out in the street, with emergency personnel in attendance…it was at the vicinity you noted, but the time was around 8:40 or so. I took a pic. I figured that it was just someone who had had too much to drink.

  5. Nice Deb
    April 11th, 2010 @ 5:20 am

    Just looked at the pic at the link…There wasn’t yellow crime scene tape at the incident we walked by…and it was just one person laid out in the street…so I don’t know…

  6. Nice Deb
    April 11th, 2010 @ 12:20 am

    Just looked at the pic at the link…There wasn’t yellow crime scene tape at the incident we walked by…and it was just one person laid out in the street…so I don’t know…

  7. Proof
    April 11th, 2010 @ 5:54 am

    I’ve got a nephew who’s a homicide detective in New Orleans. Job security…

  8. Proof
    April 11th, 2010 @ 12:54 am

    I’ve got a nephew who’s a homicide detective in New Orleans. Job security…

  9. Robert Stacy McCain
    April 11th, 2010 @ 8:59 am

    I’ve got a nephew who’s a homicide detective in New Orleans. Job security

    Heh. Or, as folks say in New Orleans, “Who dat say heh?”

  10. Robert Stacy McCain
    April 11th, 2010 @ 3:59 am

    I’ve got a nephew who’s a homicide detective in New Orleans. Job security

    Heh. Or, as folks say in New Orleans, “Who dat say heh?”

  11. paul mitchell
    April 11th, 2010 @ 2:15 pm

    Someone got murdered in Nawlins? NO WAY!!!

  12. paul mitchell
    April 11th, 2010 @ 9:15 am

    Someone got murdered in Nawlins? NO WAY!!!

  13. dad29
    April 11th, 2010 @ 3:57 pm

    Because she has reserved the exclusive right to shoot me dead, a right that she has not yet chosen to exercise.

    Yah, well, review the story of the Sword of Damocles.

  14. dad29
    April 11th, 2010 @ 10:57 am

    Because she has reserved the exclusive right to shoot me dead, a right that she has not yet chosen to exercise.

    Yah, well, review the story of the Sword of Damocles.

  15. Lance
    April 11th, 2010 @ 8:33 pm

    Because she has reserved the exclusive right to shoot me dead, a right that she has not yet chosen to exercise.

    She’s only winged you, then?

  16. Lance
    April 11th, 2010 @ 3:33 pm

    Because she has reserved the exclusive right to shoot me dead, a right that she has not yet chosen to exercise.

    She’s only winged you, then?

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