Would you like a little lead with your coffee. sir?
Police are searching for a gunman who shot someone in the torso on the 1600 block of Constance Street, then pitched his weapon during a foot chase that broke out shortly after the shots rang out.
The shooting happened at approximately 7:55 a.m., early reports indicate. Paramedics had tended to the victim by 8:08 a.m.
-Loki, HumidCity Founder
Well, immediately after receiving the last bit of ill news a bit of clarification has appeared. Evidently it was a fight between two waiters, one smashed a wine bottle over the other’s head and somebody reported it as a gunshot.
I feel marginally better. The sad fact is that the initial report was so believable.
Evidently a few bare minutes ago there was a shooting at Antoine’s restaurant here in the French Quarter. To use a classic internet acronym, WTF? One of the oldest and poshest restaurants in town, in the middle of the most heavily trafficed part of the city and there is a shooting in broad daylight?
Obviously the marching and ranting against crime has resulted in no real net gain. This is bloody horrible, not only because someone may well be dead now, but also because the day to day killings in impoverished parts of the city do not get the attention lavished upon them that this will. Nauseating.
To steal a line from Joeseph Conrad, “The Horror, The Horror…”
More to come as I get info