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Driver arrested after shooting spree in Touro neighborhood
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A convicted felon who allegedly drove through the Touro neighborhood firing at residents from his pickup truck was arrested early Wednesday and may be tried on federal gun charges, police said. Two women were sitting on the porch of a home near the intersection of Marengo and Coliseum streets about 11:50 p.m. Tuesday when a yellow pickup driving down the road slowed down and the driver fired a gun out the window at them, said Lt. Mike Montalbano of the NOPD Second District investigative unit. As he drove away, the driver continued shooting, Montalbano said. Police stopped the truck about a block away on Constantinople and found a gun and 13 spent shell casings inside, said Detective Guy Swalm, the second district’s firearms investigator. The driver, 29-year-old Jesse McKinney, was initially charged with aggravated assault and illegal discharge of a weapon, police said.
