Security guard wounded in Waffle House shootout in New Orleans East

A security guard exchanged gunfire with a man who walked into a Waffle House in New Orleans East early Sunday morning (April 7) and began shooting at him, according to the New Orleans Police Department.

In a preliminary report, police said an “unknown subject” entered the Waffle House restaurant off Interstate 10 at Bullard Avenue just before 3:15 a.m. and “made eye contact with the security guard.” That person then opened fire on the 51-year-old guard, who returned shots.

The guard was shot once in the lower right arm and the unknown shooter fled, police said. It was not clear from the preliminary report who exactly shot the guard. Police classified the episode as an attempted armed robbery. No description of the suspect was provided.

Elsewhere Saturday night and Sunday morning, police were investigating reports of three separate crimes involving people in cars. In one case, a woman who was forced to drive to an “unknown location” by a 45-year-old man ended up stopping in the parking lot of the 5th District police station on North Claiborne Avenue around 8:20 a.m. Saturday, at which point the man grabbed her fanny pack and ran away.

In Pontchartrain Park, police say a man hit a woman for “for 1 hour” on Saturday night while sitting in a parked car after they had an argument and he refused to let her leave. The woman managed to get out of the car, lost consciousness and went to a hospital emergency room, where the man continued texting the woman and “threatening to kill her,” according to police.

Police also arrested a 40-year-old man, Eugene Weather, in connection with an alleged carjacking on Earhart Boulevard and South Carrollton Avenue just before 4 a.m. Sunday. According to the preliminary report, police say Weather twice asked the other man for a ride to the Seventh Ward and, reluctantly agreeing, the man said he would take Weather to the bus stop. En route to the stop, Weather allegedly punched the man in the face, ordered him out of the vehicle and sped off in a black 2016 Chrysler 200. Weather was caught later on foot, police said.

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New Orleans police said they are investigating reports of a security guard being wounded in a shooting at the Waffle House and three separate crimes involving people in cars on Saturday through early Sunday, April 7, 2019. (iStock photo) (iStock photo/)