NEW ORLEANS — The NOPD says it has arrested a 24-year-old man in the shooting death of another man on Canal Street Wednesday following an altercation in front of a store.
Khutbi Abdelkader was arrested and booked for second-degree murder in the Wednesday killing of Anthony Francois.
Bond was set for $350,000, records show.
According to police, shortly before 5 p.m., Eighth District officers responded to a call of a shooting in the 900 block of Canal Street and found a man with a gunshot wound.
The victim was taken to the hospital where he died from his wounds.
Abdelkader was detained at the scene for questioning shortly after the police arrived and officers determined he was the suspected shooter.
Police said that investigators determined that Abdelkader and the victim were having an argument outside of a business and that at some point the victim was shot.
Khutbi Abdelkader allegedly told police that the man he allegedly shot had been allegedly threatening and harassing staff at Smoke Sum 'almost daily for over a week', The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate reported.
Abdelkader claims to have stepped out of his store after Francois banged on the glass storefront. Abdelkader pulled out a gun, seeing Francois 'reaching for an object' — then shooting him twice, The Times-Picayune | The New Orleans Advocate reported.
He was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center.
Anyone with additional information on this incident is asked to contact NOPD Homicide Detective Jameson Diesburg at 504-658-5300. or Crimestoppers at 822-1111.