The deadly shooting happened Friday night, just as the city's Jazz Fest was getting underway.
While the gunmen remain at large, Chicago radio legend Terri Hemmert is now shedding light on what happened -- and revealing she was nearly killed in this shootout.
New Orleans Police say bullets started flying outside the legendary Mandina's Restaurant Friday evening as patrons were dining. The victim investigators say was targeted has been identified as 23-year-old Hilbert Walker III, a waiter at the establishment. Police say Walker was serving customers when a car pulled up and two people got out and shot him multiple times. Over the weekend, legendary radio host at WXRT, Terri Hemmert, would post on Facebook that the woman was among 28 friends in New Orleans celebrating her birthday. She also lashed out at the rise in gun violence across the country, saying"as long as we refuse to do something about this epidemic, we are not safe and neither are you.
Hemmert's friend, who has not been identified, is currently recovering. According to the radio host, she is expected to be OK.
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