An armed man began knocking on doors near Bayou St. John not long before the gunfire erupted Saturday morning, according to neighbors.
A few minutes before 8 a.m., he stopped at a house on Dumaine Street and proceeded to shoot the man who lived there.
Eliot Brown was a beloved 47-year-old artist and carpenter whose work graces the banks of the bayou, in whimsical renderings of yellow alligator warning signs…