NEW ORLEANS — An arrest was made in the early morning shooting that left a woman wounded on Bourbon Street Tuesday, New Orleans Police Department officials said.
Police began investigating after a woman was shot and wounded near Bourbon and Canal streets around 7 a.m. By Tuesday night, NOPD officials announced they arrested 25-year-old Dominic Massa in connection to the case.
According to initial NOPD reports, the female victim was shot in the right elbow in the 100 block of Bourbon Street. She was taken to University Medical Center in an ambulance and was listed in stable condition.
NOPD detectives coordinated with the Jefferson Parish Sheriff's Office to arrest Massa, officials said. He's accused of shooting out of a truck that was stopped in front of the Krystal burger on the main French Quarter street, according to preliminary police reports.
He was booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center and faces a charge of aggravated battery by shooting. His bond was not set Wednesday morning.
Anyone with additional information on this incident is asked to contact NOPD Eighth District detectives at 504-658-6080.
The location NOPD officers were investigating Tuesday is around the corner from where 12 people were shot in wounded on a mass shooting on Dec. 1.
The shooting comes hours after a Walmart worker was killed and a woman was wounded when a gunman walked into the crowded Gentilly store and opened fire, according to NOPD officials.
Bourbon Street saw several high-profile shootings last year, including the killing of a local nurse walking by an altercation in February and a Louisiana State Trooper shooting a wrong-way driver on the street in May.
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