Has the New Orleans Interstate sniping been discussed?

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Last summer, Bayou Justice identified 60 potentially related shootings on two New Orleans interstate highways.

Today, every news outlet in the state reports nightly on the attacks making the highways around Crescent City a shooting gallery. However, New Orleans officials remain tight-lipped, refusing to admit they may have a serial sniper in their city.

On Valentine’s Day, The New Orleans Police Department found a man shot multiple times in a vehicle on the Pontchartrain Expressway near the I-10 Slidell exit. Wednesday, Feb. 2, around 11 p.m., an unidentified sniper shot 24-year-old Christian Honore as he drove westbound on Interstate 10, causing him to crash his vehicle near Louisa Street.

WDSU, Channel 6 in New Orleans, said after the Valentine’s Day shooting, officers told a reporter they had responded to dozens of interstate shootings so far in 2022.

Shootings which Police Superintendent Shaun D. Ferguson initially called unrelated gang-on-gang and road-rage activity today count police officers, honeymoon couples and school children among the victims.

In 2020, New Orleans saw an average of two interstate shootings per month, and on January 12, a news release from the New Orleans Police Department detailed more than 30 interstate shootings in the Crescent City in 2021.

Six days later, they added four more victims to their list.

Just before 3 p.m. on Jan. 18, a Tuesday, a sniper killed 34-year-old Whitney Watts as she traveled eastbound on Interstate 10. Police realized something was amiss when the victim’s black car crashed into a guardrail at the Crowder Boulevard exit in New Orleans East. The coroner found Whitney’s assailant shot her multiple times.

Bullets busted the car’s back window, and police found one visible gunshot near the back-passenger window, just above the head of Whitney’s daughter.

According to Whitney’s sister-in-law, when the young girl phoned her dad from the car, Whitney’s husband asked if Whitney had a seizure. Their daughter replied, “No, Dad, she was shot.”

Earlier that morning, another I-10 gunshot hit a man on Michoud Boulevard, and the Saturday morning before that, Jan. 15, the interstate sniper killed a 52-year-old man and wounded a 45-year-old woman on I-10 at Esplanade Avenue.

It is time police admit that some if not all drivers and passengers found shot fell victim to the same shooter or shooters.

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A representative of the Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Office agreed, saying the problem extends far outside the city limits of New Orleans and explained how someone shot two people on the North Causeway on-ramp onto I-10 East.

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The possibility that some, if not all these shootings were perpetrated by the same sniper or group, is not fiction. It has happened before and is likely happening again

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