Recent shooting in new orleans driver#
On a Thursday evening, May 6, a motorist shot a driver in another car during rush-hour traffic on I-10 south as he traveled eastbound between Oak Harbor Boulevard and Old Spanish Trail. One week later, on a Monday evening, another unidentified shooter on the I-10 High Rise Bridge wounded a 20-year-old driver, shooting him in the leg as he drove I-10 west, near Louisa Street and Pines Village.
Paramedics transported all victims to the hospital, including one woman in critical condition after the unidentified gunman shot her in the face. On June 6, just after midnight on a Sunday morning, gunfire wounded nine people as they stood near the I-10 service road. “I cannot give you any rhyme or reason behind any of this,” he said, “but we know for sure, a few of them have involved road rage.” Ferguson told reporters his investigators found no pattern to the shootings.
Recent shooting in new orleans serial#
Serial shooter targeting New Orleans highways?Īt a news conference last April, Police Superintendent Shaun D. Investigators are currently of the belief that these are isolated incidents and, in many cases, crimes of opportunity regarding individuals known to each other.” On July 2, the New Orleans Police Department released a written statement saying, “The NOPD investigates incidents such as these on their respective circumstances. Officials released no additional details on the shootings, no description of the sniper or sniper vehicle, and no likely motives, nor have they confirmed connections between the shootings. At 1:30 that morning, an unidentified assailant shot a woman on Interstate-10 on the Pontchartrain Expressway, somewhere between the Crescent City Connection and the Orleans-Jefferson Parish Line. This marked the third interstate shooting that day. Three hours later, another random shot struck a man traveling eastbound on I-610 near the St. Emergency Medical Services transported the victim to a hospital in critical condition. Someone shot a man driving in a westbound lane on Interstate-610 near Paris Avenue. The month prior, on a Thursday night, July 1, at 7:48, a 911 call alerted the New Orleans Police Department to another interstate highway shooting. Like the other monthly cases, police have no suspects. The officer did not return fire, according to Ferguson. when the shots blew through his windshield. The Police Superintendent said the unnamed off-duty officer was driving on I-10 westbound near the St. “We cannot say he was targeted because he is a police officer.”
“He was in an unmarked unit, not your typical police car,” Ferguson said. According to Superintendent Ferguson, the wound grazed the officer’s skull, leaving him responsive and in stable condition.įerguson said in a news conference he did not know why the officer was shot. On August 31, a Tuesday night, as an off-duty NOPD officer drove I-10, an interstate sniper shot him in the head. Fortunately, he lived after driving himself to a nearby hospital. The New Orleans Police Department said the victim was driving I-10 when a car pulled next to him on his passenger side and began shooting, wounding the man twice. Last week on a Sunday morning, September 24, someone shot a man on Interstate 10 East at Franklin Avenue. Since July of 2020, there has been an average of two anonymous interstate shootings per month on two interstate highways near New Orleans. Ferguson initially labeled as unrelated gang-on-gang and road-rage activity now includes a honeymoon couple and an off-duty police officer among the victims. The shootings Police Superintendent Shaun D. Three months later, the shootings continue. In July, I reported on several potentially related shootings on two New Orleans interstate highways.
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