Intruder fatally shot by North Broad Street homeowner was Colorado band’s lighting designer

 Posted by at 9:29 am  crime
May 022013
 

Police block off Broad Street after a home invasion shooting

The 40-year-old man fatally shot Sunday after entering a home on Broad Street, just blocks from Jazz Fest, was a lighting designer who had stayed in New Orleans to visit friends and attend the festival after his band returned home, according to a report by Ramon Antonio Vargas of NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune.

Citizens reported a bloody irate man near Broad Street and Laharpe Street Sunday afternoon and when police confronted him, he ran into a home on the 1500 block of North Broad Street. The homeowner shot the intruder, later telling police he feared for his life.

Intruder dies after home invasion shooting on North Broad Street Sunday afternoon

 Posted by at 4:07 pm  crime, Featured
Apr 282013
 

Police investigate a shooting on North Broad Street

The suspect in Sunday’s home invasion and self-defense shooting died Sunday evening, police say.

New Orleans police are still investigating the Sunday afternoon shooting, which occurred on the 1500 block of North Broad Street as Jazz Fest carried on blocks away. Continue reading »

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