Three people were injured in a St. Claude neighborhood shooting Sunday afternoon (April 28), according to New Orleans police. Two of the three people received graze wounds, and the third person was shot in the upper-right torso area, police said.
The shooting was reported near the corner of Piety and Marais streets.
A man who lives in Uptown said he arrived at the scene after his sister called to tell him about shots fired outside her home in the 1200 block of Piety Street. The man said his sister was with his 29-year-old niece and six children outside her house when the family heard gunshots fired at the edge of their house. The man said his niece was one of the two people who suffered a graze wound, as well as her 7-year-old goddaughter.
“We just want our quiet neighborhood back,” said a woman who said she has lived on the block for five years. At about 6:10 p.m., the woman said, she and her husband were watching television when they heard about 12 gunshots and she saw paint chip away from her home. The woman said she and her husband called 911.
The woman said kids often play in the streets of her neighborhood, many visiting their grandparents on weekends. An hour before she heard gunshots, many young kids were outside playing, she said.
“It’s pretty shocking on a Sunday afternoon,” she said.
About a year ago, she remembers a shooting that occurred at a nearby intersection, but Sunday’s shooting was otherwise surprising because “it’s such a nice block,” she said.
Police cordoned off the intersection of Marais and Piety, as well as the 1200 block of Piety. Crime lab detectives arrived around 7:35 p.m.
Detectives placed at least 10 evidence cones in front of a bright blue house near the intersection. A group of people sat in the doorway of a home while they watched detectives collect evidence in the street.
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