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Williams and a woman were fatally hit during the ‘incident’.
Relative disputes official story
parking lotas he was attempting to flee the scene, the
Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office said.
The woman was shot dead near the store’s front door.
Belle Chasse woman,
Veronica Billiot, 59. Her sister said she had gone to pick up a gun she had ordered for protection when an argument started nearby.
Two others were also injured the hail of gunfire, one of whom was Williams’ brother.
His brother and the other victim were taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Speaking to NOLA, a relative of Williams’ questioned the police’s account of what happened in the moments before the shooting.
Customers and employees at a gun shop opened fire on a gunman who killed two people and injured others in New Orleans, the Associated Press reported Saturday.
Two people were fatally shot by a gunman at the Jefferson Gun Outlet where employees and patrons returned fire and killed the shooter, according to the AP. The gunman wounded two individuals before people in and outside of the store returned fire, Sheriff Joseph Lopinto said, according to the AP.
“We heard the gunshots and the screaming,” Tyrone Russell, who was taking a conceal-and-carry course at the range said, the AP reported. “When the police came, they escorted us out. I could see glass everywhere … It was just like a really scary scene.”
METAIRIE, La. A person entered a gun store and shooting range in a New Orleans suburb and fatally shot two people Saturday, prompting customers and staff
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It was a busy Saturday afternoon at the Jefferson Gun Outlet in Metairie, a suburb of New Orleans. Customers and staff were in the store, some were in the shooting range and others were in a class on concealed weapons.
The Associated Press reported that one person entered the store and fatally shot two people, prompting customers and staff to open fire on the shooter, according to Jefferson Parish Sheriff Joseph Lopinto. Dead are store clerk Noah Fischbach, 47; customer Veronica Billot, 59; and the shooter, Joshua Jamal Williams. Lopinto said two men also were hit by gunfire and were hospitalized in stable condition.