New Orleans’ Bourbon Street Shooting Caught on Camera

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By CNN Newsource
August 10, 2021US News
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This video from EarthCam shows the moment shots were fired on the busy streets of the French Quarter in New Orleans early Sunday. In a matter of seconds, hundreds scattered away from the scene.

Officers responded to the call of a shooting on Bourbon Street around 2 a.m. CT Sunday.

Five people were taken to a hospital after the shooting, city police said.

At least three of the four victims suffered a graze wound, police said, and injuries to all four were considered non-life-threatening.

Police said they later discovered a fifth victim, a man with a gunshot wound to the calf.

A 17-year-old boy is in custody in relation to the shooting, NOPD said in a statement to CNN.

This is the second weekend in a row that a shooting took place on Bourbon Street. A shooting near the intersection of Bourbon Street and Orleans Street left five people injured in the early hours of Aug. 1, police wrote on Twitter.

Bourbon Street shooting
Police at the scene of a shooting near Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Aug. 1, 2021. (Courtesy of WDSU)

Police arrested two men in connection with the Aug. 1 shooting and identified one of them as a shooter in the incident.

A third suspect is still wanted on charges of illegal carrying of a firearm by a convicted felon and obstruction of justice, according to a police news release.

The CNN Wire contributed to this report