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Woman wounded in Hollygrove gun battle; man shot in Lower Garden District robbery

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A woman was critically wounded in a gun battle in Hollygrove and a man was shot during an apparent robbery attempt caught on video outside a Lower Garden District bar in separate incidents Tuesday night, continuing the wave of bloodshed and violence across Uptown New Orleans since the weekend. In the Hollygrove shooting, the victim was unintentionally caught in the crossfire during a gunfight between her brother and another man, said Sgt. Shaun Ferguson of the NOPD Second District persons-crimes division. She, her husband and her brother were all walking near Hollygrove and Palmer streets Tuesday evening when her brother called a woman he knew, Ferguson said. The woman’s boyfriend, Kalumba Cheneau, became angry about the call, and he and the brother exchanged words about it over the phone, Ferguson said.

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LaSalle shooting critically injures man, 22

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A Sunday night shooting on LaSalle Street critically injured a 22-year-old man and was preceded by another shooting a half hour earlier on Annunciation Street, but police have yet to determine if the two incidents are related. On LaSalle near Soniat, the victim was walking in the road about 10:54 p.m. when he was gunned down, said officer Garry Flot, of the NOPD public information office. The victim was taken to University Hospital in critical condition, but no other details were available Monday morning about that incident. About a half hour earlier, a 32-year-old woman and a 27-year-old man were walking in the 5000 block of Annunciation (also near Soniat) toward their vehicle when they got into an altercation with an unknown suspect, Flot said. Shots were fired, with bullets grazing the woman’s head and the man’s hand, and they drove themselves to University Hospital, Flot said.