An Algiers resident thought someone threw a basketball at his apartment window early Tuesday (April 16). He soon realized the sound was gunfire, he said, and saw his next-door neighbor on the ground outside, shot.
New Orleans police said a 30-year-old man was killed at the Parc Fontaine Apartments. Officers responding about 12:20 a.m. to the 3100 block of Rue Parc Fontaine found a man lying outside an apartment doorway, NOPD said. He was taken to the hospital and pronounced dead.
Man killed in Algiers shooting, New Orleans police say
About 9 a.m. Tuesday, yellow crime scene tape sat wadded up in a parking lot dumpster closest to the apartment where the resident said his slain neighbor had lived.
Speaking from his front door, the man said he didn’t know the name of his neighbor, and the 30-year-old had moved in not long ago. Their interactions were limited to greetings when they saw each other coming and going.
“He seemed like a nice guy,” said the man, who declined to give his name for safety reasons. “Quiet.”
Outside the apartment where the slain man lived was a welcome mat with a picture of a watermelon slice and the words, “Life is sweet.”
Police asked the man how many gunshots he heard, he said. He told them two, he said, but other neighbors told him they heard about six. The gunshots sounded like they came from the parking lot, he said, and neighbors speculated the slain man had run to his front door to get inside when he collapsed.
A woman who owns an apartment in the next row of the sprawling, brick complex, said that after midnight she heard, “bam, bam.” A short time later she saw police cars, then detectives in the adjacent parking lot.
A woman who apparently knew the wounded man lay on the ground, “screaming,” said the woman, who also declined to provide her name for safety reasons. The man who lived next door said he saw an upset woman at the scene, as well as others who seemed to know his neighbor.
“It’s horrible,” said the woman, of the fatal shooting.
The woman said she’s owned an apartment there for 18 years. The nearby killing exacerbated her frustrations with a broken fence at the complex’s entrance and parking lot lights that she said don’t work. She’s considering selling, she said.
“You can’t run from it,” she added. “It’s everywhere.”
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