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By: Laura McKnight, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune

NEW ORLEANS, LA – Four people were hurt Tuesday night (Sept 18) in a drive-by shooting in Algiers, New Orleans police reported.

A man suffered a gunshot wound to the head and was in stable condition late Tuesday, police said. The others were in stable condition with non-life-threatening injuries, including a woman who was shot in the shoulder and a woman with a graze wound to the arm.

According to NOPD spokesman Juan Barnes, three victims were struck by bullets and a fourth, a 9-year-old boy, received a cut, but police were not sure if the wound was caused by a bullet or something else. The boy was treated at the scene.

The shooting occurred at 10:12 p.m. in the 1100 block of Sumner Street, where someone in a vehicle began shooting at a group of people sitting outside of a house, Barnes said.

“Individuals rolled down the windows and opened fire,” he said.

Police initially described the vehicle as a gray sedan, but on Wednesday said the vehicle was a black luxury car.

About 10:40 p.m., one ambulance remained at the scene. Bystanders said two other ambulances had already left Sumner Street, but they did not see who was inside or where they had been struck.

About 20 to 25 onlookers gathered near Sumner and Diana streets, watching as the third ambulance backed away from the taped-off crime scene.

Officers, several searching the roadway with flashlights, were congregated toward the middle of the block. There, investigators searched around the front of a house where a group of people still sat out front in lawn chairs.

Investigators placed several yellow evidence cones in the middle of the street near the home. Another cone sat in a nearby driveway.

Alfred DeGree IV, who lives in the area, said he was about a block away at a gas station when he heard roughly nine or ten gunshots.

DeGree said he then returned to Sumner Street to find police cars and ambulances.

“The stretcher was coming out,” he said.

Another man who lives in the area, and who declined to give his name, said he was inside his home folding laundry when he heard roughly six gunshots that sounded like they were right outside of his front door.

“I’m talking about real close,” he said.

The man said he walked outside to hear his neighbors yelling that someone was losing consciousness.

“They said, ‘He’s going out! He’s going out! Call the ambulance,'” he said. “I knew someone got hit.”

No arrests had been made as of late Tuesday, as investigators were still working to determine a motive and a suspect or suspects, Barnes said.

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