Sewerage & Water Board employee shoots co-worker to death in NOLA

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[quote]A Sewerage & Water Board employee shot his co-worker to death Thursday on a busy Gentilly street corner, according to city officials.

Authorities haven’t discussed a possible motive for the killing. But the suspected killer had taken off work the last few days because of bullying on the job, according to a source with knowledge of the situation.

According to surveillance video obtained by WWL-TV from a nearby business, the victim and the alleged shooter, identified as 31-year-old Damon Rideau, were driving in separate cars in opposite directions on Franklin Avenue about 9:55 p.m. Rideau blocked his coworker's path at a U-turn on Sage Street, then got out of his truck and walked briskly to the driver's side of the other man's sport-utility vehicle.

Much of the rest of the action unfolded out of the camera's view, but a witness told WWL-TV that the two men argued before one pulled out a gun and shot the other "three or four times."

"It was cold-blooded," the witness said. "You just can't be running up on people in their cars like that."

Police said the victim was shot in the chest. He was brought to the hospital and died there./quote]