Nine people were killed in New Orleans last week, marking the city’s deadliest seven-day stretch since the New Year’s morning terrorist attack on Bourbon Street.
Over a week ending Friday morning, the bloodshed spread across the Crescent City. Murders were reported in nine neighborhoods: Desire, Broadmoor, Little Woods, Mid-City, Bayou St. John, the Central Business District, French Quarter, 7th Ward and Leonidas.
The victims included a Chicago tourist shot during her birthday celebration in the Quarter, a Bayou St. John artist gunned down after answering his door, and a Brennan’s chef killed in a carjacking as he waited to pick up his son from daycare…