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| New Orleans shooting injures nine on Bourbon Street | New Orleans shooting injures nine on Bourbon Street |
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| Nine people were injured, including one critically, after a shooting on touristy Bourbon Street in New Orleans' celebrated French Quarter. | |
| One person was in critical condition after the early Sunday shooting, said New Orleans police spokesman Frank Robertson. Seven others were hospitalized in stable condition. The remaining victim's condition was not available. The victims were shot just two blocks from historic Jackson Square and just around the corner from the popular Pat O'Brien's piano bar. | |
| An investigation is ongoing. | |
| Sunday morning's incident is the third major shooting on Bourbon Street in the last three years. | |
| Last February on the Saturday before Mardi Gras, four people were treated at a hospital after a shooting. During Halloween in 2011, one person was killed and seven others were injured after gunmen opened fire on each other. | |
| Bourbon Street is New Orleans' most famous street, a nightly swirl of bright neon and happy tourists with beverage in hand. A blend of jazz joints, strip clubs, bars and restaurants, the French Quarter's Bourbon Street has everything from four-star dining to sex shows. | Bourbon Street is New Orleans' most famous street, a nightly swirl of bright neon and happy tourists with beverage in hand. A blend of jazz joints, strip clubs, bars and restaurants, the French Quarter's Bourbon Street has everything from four-star dining to sex shows. |