Nine people were killed in New Orleans last week, marking the city’s deadliest seven-day stretch since the New Year’s morning terrorist attack on Bourbon Street.

Over a week ending Friday morning, the bloodshed spread across the Crescent City. Murders were reported in nine neighborhoods: Desire, Broadmoor, Little Woods, Mid-City, Bayou St. John, the Central Business District, French Quarter, 7th Ward and Leonidas.

The victims included a Chicago tourist shot during her birthday celebration in the Quarter, a Bayou St. John artist gunned down after answering his door, and a Brennan’s chef killed in a carjacking as he waited to pick up his son from daycare.

The pace and randomness of the attacks have some locals recalling 2022, when New Orleans led the nation in murder rate at the pe

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