NEW ORLEANS — A man is dead after a double shooting Monday evening two blocks off St. Bernard Avenue in the 4100 block of Jumonville Street in New Orleans.
Neighbors watched as police and investigators worked the scene. They expressed their frustration with the violence like this all across the city.
"The criminals, they're just taking over," said John Wagner, who is a regular customer of the corner store on Jumonville Street and Senate Street. "It’s a safe neighborhood. First time I've been around ever seen anything like this."
Right outside that corner store is where a man was shot and killed before 5 p.m. Monday. Wagner was inside his mother-in-law's house, two doors down from the scene.
"We was just sitting in the kitchen, sitting down talking and all of a sudden we hear gunshots and sound like somebody had some kind of assault rifle," he said. "It sounded like something in a war."
Wagner heard several shots and more than 20 markers on the scene indicates multiple bullets.
"My heart just go out to the neighborhood," he said.
As of Monday night, the victim has not been identified, but neighbors say he was likely in his 20's. According to NOPD, a second man was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound.
"Something needs to be done about it. It's too much going on and too many people carrying guns," Wagner said.
As the family of the victim stayed close of the scene in disbelief with heavy grief, Wagner and his neighbors spent the evening discussing the violence they hear about all over the city that now hits close to home.
"Things in New Orleans, things just not getting better, it's getting worse," he said. "I just hope things could get better.
NOPD has not released any information about a possible suspect or what may have led to the shooting.