(FOREIGN) Two Shot On Bourbon Street Early Sunday Morning

 

  Two men were shot on Bourbon Street early Sunday morning, according to police. The duo ages 22 and 21 were walking in the 400 block of Bourbon Street around 12:30 a.m. when they heard a pop, police said.

  The men flagged down a security guard who pointed to a balcony. The 22-year-old began feeling a pain in his calf while the 21-year-old felt a pain in his foot. They fled to a business in the 800 block of Bienville Street where the 21-year-old noticed blood filling up in his shoe, police said. The duo then called an Uber which took them to a local hospital to be treated, police said.

   The shooting is the second in the busy block of Bourbon in the past month. In late February, a tussle between 37-year-old Louis Barnes and a security guard at Willie’s Chicken Shack ended with both parties shot and local nurse Julie Couvillon dead in the street.

    It was also the sixth shooting reported in a 24-hour span in New Orleans. A man was shot while driving on the interstate in Pines Village early Saturday. Another man was fatally shot on Dwyer Road when a gun went off while he was rehearsing a video inside a residence Saturday morning.

   A man was shot in the upper torso in the West Lake Forest neighborhood of New Orleans East during a late afternoon shootout. A man was shot in the hand during a dispute over rent in the Read Boulevard West area early Saturday night. Lastly, a woman was shot in the back and man suffered a laceration to the wrist after overhearing gunshots in the Florida neighborhood early Sunday.

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