chicken and watermelon restaurant
Posted on 07/29/2018 3:27:14 PM PDT by BBell
On Saturday night (July 28), a bustling crowd gathered outside Jazz Daiquiri Lounge and Chicken & Watermelon on South Claiborne Avenue, as it does most weekends. People chatted, frozen drinks in hand, enjoying slightly cooler weather than in recent days when suddenly chaos broke out.
A man bolted across Louisiana Avenue toward the businesses with two hooded subjects, one clutching a long gun and the other a pistol, trailing close behind. The duo haphazardly fired shots in the fleeing man's direction, striking patrons along the way, said Skipper Nichols, who owns Chicken & Watermelon, and reported what he saw after watching footage from a nearby business's security camera.
When the shooters caught up to the man, who police have not yet identified, they repeatedly shot him on the doorstep of Chicken & Watermelon, a neighborhood staple for chicken and watermelon punch. The two subjects then turned and fled down South Claiborne Avenue, leaving a bloody and chaotic scene in their wake, Nichols said.
Nichols arrived at his business Saturday after the shootings occurred to find a man dead on the doorstep of his restaurant and a woman dead at entrance to the Cricket Wireless store next door.
Two men and one woman were killed and seven people were wounded in the shooting, which occurred around 8:30 p.m. in the 3400 block of South Claiborne Avenue Saturday night (July 28). The injured -- including five men and two women -- were in "varying degrees of condition, some more critical than others," according to New Orleans EMS Director Dr. Emily Nichols.
"He ran into a crowd of people," Nichols said. "I think he probably thought, 'If I run by the people, they won't shoot me.' But just everybody got shot."
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New Orleans must have one of the lowest wounded to kill ratios in the country. I know they got Chicago beat.
An update.
Chicken & Watermelon? Isn’t that racist? Would it be racist if a restaurant was opened up called WHAT BLACK FOLKS EAT?
Lost in the story - there is an eating establishment called “Chicken and Watermelon”. How has this place not been protested and either boycotted or forced to change its name?!?!?
Beat me by 28 seconds!
Sound very Cartel-centric.
Cartelish..?
New Orleans blacks are not as PC as other blacks. The whole confederate monument thing was the work of outside agitators. The local blacks could mostly have not cared a less.
BLM never really caught on here.
This surprises me; with the statues down and all.
I wonder if Tiger Woods has ever eaten at that restaurant. Maybe Fuzzy Zoeller or Sergio Garcia could provide directions.
There are so many possible names for restaurants.
WE’S ONLY KATER TO BLACKS
(We No Kater is spelled wrong but our Kustomers don’t.)
The locals don’t care and they have some really good food and the chicken and watermelon punch is legendary.
Chicken and watermelon caters to everyone. Ain’t no racists there.
You really know the Culture War is burning hot when after a mass-shooting everyone starts jabbering about an unacceptable RESTAURANT NAME..!
Only 4 because the detractors were offended by the name most likely.
I know and I knew it would happen.(;>)
The biggest complaint seemed to be getting the order right.
an eating establishment called “Chicken and Watermelon”. How has this place not been protested and either boycotted or forced to change its name?!?!?
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Well, interpret the name with sexual overtones.
“Chicken & Watermelon “
Isn’t that racist?
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