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Two women wanted in connection with gunshots fired from a vehicle on a New Orleans interstate have surrendered to police, authorities said late Monday.
The gunshots were captured on video and circulated on social media.
No injuries were reported, but it was part of a growing trend of shootings on New Orleans roads.
“This reckless act placed motorists and the public traveling the interstate at imminent risk of serious injury or death,” New Orleans police said in a statement last month.
Police said the women in the video are 21-year-old India Fazande and 19-year-old Erica Nettles.
Fasande surrendered to the police on October 25, authorities said. She was charged at the Orleans Justice Center with discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle, according to online jail records.
Nettles surrendered to the police on Saturday. She also faces a charge of discharging a firearm from a motor vehicle, according to jail records.
Authorities said the crime was a felony.
Shooting on Pontchartrain Expressway
Police said the shooting is believed to have happened on Oct. 16 on the Pontchartrain Expressway near the Loyola Street exit.
The 10-second video was posted on social media with the caption “lol was jus lettin them b**ches gooo” along with a laughing emoji.
It shows two women armed with handguns firing multiple rounds through the open passenger windows of a moving vehicle. Lights from the city skyline are visible in the background.
Can’t watch the video? See here.
Map of interstate shootings
As of Tuesday, at least 25 people had been shot on New Orleans interstates and highways. Twenty of the 23 shootings were on I-10. Three were near downtown on US-90B.
Six people have been killed in interstate shootings this year.
New Orleans police say this is where the shooting happened.
Can’t see the map? Click here.
Theories from the police
As interstate shootings began to rise last year, New Orleans police said they believed the crimes were being committed by multiple people who were unrelated for different reasons. They reiterated that position in June.
They say shootings generally fall into three categories:
- Interactions between motorists escalated into road rage
- Past feuds where shooters target someone they know
- A man caught in the crossfire
Details from police about interstate shootings are generally limited and rarely include vehicle descriptions.
Read more about each of the interstate shootings.
Police are asking anyone with information — “even if it’s something seemingly trivial” — to call Crimestoppers at (504) 822-1111.
Interstate attacks have become more common in recent years.
Carly Kollam Wells is a breaking news reporter for NOLA.com and The Times-Picayune.
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