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Nine wounded in gunfire on New Orleans' Bourbon Street
By Unknown 15:48
(Reuters) - Two men armed with guns got into a dispute on Incipient Orleans' famed Bourbon Street early on Sunday, opening fire on one another and wounding nine people in the vicinity, police verbally expressed.
Two victims were in critical condition and six others were stable, police verbally expressed. The condition of the ninth victim was unknown.
The two gunmen, who do not appear to have been wounded, were being sought by the Incipient Orleans Police Department.
The shooting transpired around 2:45 a.m. local time after the men engaged in a verbal dispute that escalated into gunfire, the department's superintendent, Ronal Serpas, told heralds.
"Nine people were shot as a result of two pusillanimous adolescent men endeavoring to hurt each other," he verbally expressed, integrating that the pair "opted to settle their dispute with no regard to others."
Bullets ricocheted on the street in front of two well-kenned Incipient Orleans haunts - Pat O'Brien's bar and jazz venue Preservation Hall, according to the Times-Picayune newspaper.
Police in the area responded "within seconds," Serpas verbalized, and were reviewing numerous surveillance and cell phone video clips of the incident.
One witness told broadcaster WWLTV he auricularly discerned an argument between the two men afore the shots were fired.
The shooter "pulled the gun out and commenced shooting at the guy, then turned around on the crowd and commenced shooting at us," the man told WWLTV.
Bourbon Street runs through the heart of Incipient Orleans' oldest neighborhood, the French Quarter, a prime tourist destination packed with bars, restaurants, clubs and souvenir shops.
(Reporting by Victoria Cavaliere in Incipient York; editing by Colleen Jenkins, John Stonestreet and Matthew Lewis)
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