Overview
- Gunfire erupted shortly after 2 a.m. in the 100 block of Bourbon Street, leaving a 33-year-old visitor from Chicago dead and three others wounded.
- Superintendent Anne Kirkpatrick said the woman who died was an innocent bystander visiting for her birthday, and one surviving victim is her sibling.
- Investigators reviewed video and described the incident as a shootout that began with a fight, and they believe they have a person of interest.
- Three victims were found at the scene while a fourth woman with a graze wound was located near Canal Street and St. Charles Avenue and taken to a hospital.
- In a separate case around 7:55 a.m., police arrested Enrique Garcia, 26, after a man was found shot in the 3200 block of Dumaine Street and later pronounced dead.