Armed with stun gun, woman stops bag snatching
By Jonathan Bullington
NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
A 44-year-old woman walking in Treme Saturday morning (Nov. 11) stopped a man from stealing her bag when she pulled a stun gun from her pocket, New Orleans police said.
The woman was in the 2000 block of Dumaine Street when a man approached from behind, police said. He tried to grab her bag, but was scared away when she took out the stun gun.
The incident, reported shortly after 9:30 a.m., was one of four robbery-related calls received by police Saturday morning into Sunday morning, according to a preliminary NOPD report of major offenses:
A 57-year-old woman “received a minor cut to the neck” after a card game Saturday morning in the Gert Town neighborhood. Officers were called to the 7900 block of Olive Street shortly after 5:30 a.m. Police said the victim and the suspect were playing cards when the suspect left and returned with a knife, demanding that the victim return her money. The neck wound was suffered during the ensuing fight, police said, which ended when the victim’s son showed up and caused the suspect to flee. Paramedics treated the victim’s wound at the scene.
Police classified the encounter as an armed robbery, though the preliminary NOPD report does not specify what was taken.
Officers were also called to investigate two separate carjackings, one reported just before 7 p.m. at Republic and Hope streets, and the other reported at 2 a.m. Sunday near Pressburg Street and Nottingham Drive. In the first incident, a 38-year-old man told responding officers his car was struck from behind by an “older model” Chevrolet Tahoe while heading along Republic Street. When the victim got out to check for damage, a man with a gun approached and ordered him to “give it up,” police said.
The victim ran to a nearby fast food restaurant where he called police.
In the later reported carjacking, an 18-year-old man was in his 2017 Nissan Sentra when two gunmen approached, ordering him to exit his car. He complied, police said, and the suspects fled in his car.
