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A Bourbon Street shooting left a man dead and nine other people wounded early Sunday (Nov. 27), New Orleans police said. The shooting happened shortly before 1:40 a.m. near the corner of Bourbon and Iberville streets.

The person who died, identified by NOPD spokesman Aaron Looney as a male, died at an area hospital. Looney did not immediately have information about the extent of the other victims' injuries.

Witnesses described a chaotic scene. Police said two men were arrested, including one shooting victim, and were both booked on charges of illegal carrying of a weapon. Police did not say the men were being charged or suspected with being the shooter or shooters Sunday.

He did not see any wounded but saw officers walking down Iberville with two people in handcuffs, one man and a woman.

A woman who works at a business on Bourbon between Iberville and Canal streets described a "stampede" of people as bullets flew Sunday. She did not want to be named out of concern for her safety.

She said she saw four or five gunshot victims, including one man who appeared to have been shot in the chest, on his right side near his shoulder blade, she said, and had a bandage there. The man was walking toward an ambulance while talking on his phone.

Another man was walking with blood dripping from his fingertips in one hand, the woman said. A third victim was strapped into a stretcher and had a neck brace on. She could not tell where that third man was wounded.

"It's bad for New Orleans," said the woman, who has worked in the area for six years.

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So sad. But not the last name Looney