NEW ORLEANS — The man that was killed in Marigny on Friday was also shooting, according to our partners at the Times-Picayune | New Orleans Advocate.
Police say 32-year-old Sam Jackson, a founder of the Young Fellaz Brass Band and a New Orleans Mardi Gras Indian, was involved in a shootout with another man when he was killed at the intersection of St. Anthony and North Rampart at around 10 a.m. when shots rang out.
Both of them were taken to the hospital after the shooting. Jackson died at the hospital, and NOLA.com reports that the other man is in critical condition.
Jackson was the third member of the Young Fellaz to die this year, according to the NOLA.com story, the other two deaths were reported to have been drug overdoses.