The Latest: Prosecutor cites drug deal gone bad in shooting
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The Latest on the trial of a man accused in a 2014 gunfight on Bourbon Street (all times local):
11:30 a.m.
A prosecutor hopes to convince jurors that a 2014 gunfight that left a visitor to New Orleans dead and nine other bystanders wounded resulted from "a drug deal gone bad on Bourbon Street."
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Assistant New Orleans District Attorney Laura Rodrigue says the only person arrested in the case was the aggressor.
Twenty-two-year-old Trung Le (LEE) is being tried on charges of manslaughter and attempted second-degree murder.
Le's lawyer says Le fired in self-defense. But in the prosecutor's opening statement to the jury Tuesday, Rodrigue said Le fired first at a man believed to have stolen marijuana from his friends.
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3:10 a.m.
A jury is set to hear opening arguments in the case of Trung Le (Lee), the only suspect arrested after a gunfight in 2014 that left a bystander dead on Bourbon Street, the popular strip of nightspots in New Orleans' French Quarter.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Defense lawyers are expected to tell jurors Tuesday that the 22-year-old fired in self-defense when the shooting broke out. He's charged with manslaughter and attempted second-degree murder.
Prosecutors say Le is one of two people involved in a gunfight at 2:45 a.m. on Sunday, June 29, 2014. A second, unidentified gunman has never been caught.
A 21-year-old woman from Hammond, Louisiana, was killed. Among the wounded were visitors from Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, Florida and Australia.