New Orleans' Bourbon Street Shooting Caught on Camera

Published: 8/10/2021, 2:34:32 AM EDT

This video from EarthCam shows the moment shots were fired on the busy streets of the French Quarter in New Orleans early Sunday. In a matter of seconds, hundreds scattered away from the scene.

Officers responded to the call of a shooting on Bourbon Street around 2 a.m. CT Sunday.

Five people were taken to a hospital after the shooting, city police said.

At least three of the four victims suffered a graze wound, police said, and injuries to all four were considered non-life-threatening.

Police said they later discovered a fifth victim, a man with a gunshot wound to the calf.

A 17-year-old boy is in custody in relation to the shooting, NOPD said in a statement to CNN.

This is the second weekend in a row that a shooting took place on Bourbon Street. A shooting near the intersection of Bourbon Street and Orleans Street left five people injured in the early hours of Aug. 1, police wrote on Twitter.

Police at the scene of a shooting near Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Aug. 1, 2021. (Courtesy of WDSU)
Police at the scene of a shooting near Bourbon Street in New Orleans on Aug. 1, 2021. Courtesy of WDSU

Police arrested two men in connection with the Aug. 1 shooting and identified one of them as a shooter in the incident.

A third suspect is still wanted on charges of illegal carrying of a firearm by a convicted felon and obstruction of justice, according to a police news release.

The CNN Wire contributed to this report