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‘A Renaissance Man’: Bourbon Street Mourns Bartender Killed By Stray Bullet – WDSU New Orleans

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‘A renaissance man’: Bourbon Street mourns bartender killed by stray bullet

Friend: ‘He was doing a job, and something like this happened.’

THIS IS WDSU NEWS AT 10:00. SPENCER HUDSON WAS JUST DOING HISOB LAST NIGHT WHEN A BULLET FLEW INTO THE BOURBON STREET BAR HE CALLED HOME FOR YEARS. TONIGHT, ONE PERSON WHO KNEW HIM SHARES HIS STORY AS FOLKS LAL OVER THE FRENCH QUARTER PLEA FOR SAFER STREETS. WDSU’S HARRISON GOLDEN LISIVE DOWNTOWN. HARRISON, WHAT DO WE KNOW TONIGHT? HARRISON: SHERMAN, THE BAR WHERE SPENSER HUDSON WORKED HAS BEEN CLOSED FOR MUCH OF THE DAY AS FORMER CO-WORKERS AND FRIESND RECALL AMBITIONS CUT SHORT >> HE HAD A LOT OF AMBITIONS AND WAS VERY WELL-ROUNDED. TALK ABOUT A RENAISSANCE MAN. THAT’S WHAT HE WAS. HARRISON: SPENSER HUDSON TENDED BAR AT THE CATS MEOW FOR TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. HE WAS PLANNING A TRIP TO JANPA TO TEACH ENGLISH TO SCHOOLKIDS. INSTEAD, FORMER COLLEAGUES MOURN A LIFE CUT SHORT BY A STYRA BULL.ET >> THIS MAN WAS JUST WORKING. HE WAS JUST WORKING. HE WAS DOING A JOB, AND SOMETHING LIKE HIS HAPPENED, YOU KNOW? HARRISON: IT HAPPENED JUST AFTER 2:00 A.M. SUNDAY. POLICE SAY TWO PEOPLE WERE FIGHTING OUTSIDE A BAR ACROSS THE STRE. ONE OF THEM FIRED A GUN AND ONE OF THE BULLETS WENT INSIDE HITTING THE BARTENDER IN THE CHEST KILLING HIM AT THE SCE.NE >> JT USA VERY SPECIAL PERSON WHO DEFINITELY DIDN’T DESEERV WHAT HAPPED NETO HIM. HARRISON: THE SHOOTING FRUSTRATING THOSE WHO KNEW THI R BACOUNTER STAPLE AND THO WHOSE DIDN’T. THIS MAN WHO HEARD THE SHOTS FROM DOWN THE STRE SETAYS HE’S TIRED OF THE VIOLENCE. >> IT WOULD BE GREAT TO HAVE BUSINESS, BUT IF THIS KEEPS ON LLKIING IT, WHAT’S GOING TO HAPPEN? THAT GENTLEMAN, HE DIDN’T DESERVE THAT. THAT WASN’T SUPPOSED TO BE HIS ENDING. HARRISON: GRANTHAM UNKNOWNE SELLS ART OUTSIDE THE CATS MWEO AND ADMITS SOME TIMES FEEL MORE DANGEROUS THAN OTHERS. BUT WHAT KEEPS HIM GOING IS HOPE THAT SERAF DAYS WILLOME. C >> THE DARKNESS IS LOUD. THE VIOLENCE IS LO, RIGHUD THERE IS AN EQUAL IF NOT GREATER AMOUNT OF LOVE AND LIGHT ASSOCIATED WITH IT HARRISON: AND GOOD MEMORIES OF THOSE LOST WILL LAST. >> YOU WORK WITH PEOPLE AND THEY BECOME FAMILY TO YOU. YOU WOULD NEVER IMAGINE THINGS LIKE THIS HAPPENING TO YOU. HARRIS:ON MOMENTS AFTER THE SHOOTING POLICE TOOK IN 24-YEAR-OLD DAPHNEY JACKSON. SHE’S CHARGED WITH MANSLAUGHR,TE OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE AND DISCHARGING A WEAPON. HER BOND IS SET AT $450,0.00 ERN?SH SHERMAN: THIS ISN’T THE FIRST TIME AN INNOCENT BYSTAND HERAS BEEN SHOT AND KILLED BY A STRAY BULLET ON NEW ORLEANS MOST FAMOUS SEETR BACK IN FEBRUARY 2019 JULIE COUVILLION WAS SHOT AND KILLED AFTER TWO MEN WERE ENGAGED IN A FIGHT AT A CHICKENES RTAURANT. SHE WAS JUST WALKING DOWN THE STREET WHEN SHE WAS SHOT IN ETH NECK, AND KILLED. COUVILLION WAS A SINGLE MOTHER AND NURSE. LOUIS BARNES WAS CONVICTED LATE LAST YEAR OF NEGLIGENT HOMICIDE. COUVILLION’S FAMILY SPOKE EXCLUSIVELY TO WDSU AND TOLD US BACK THRN, THEY PEHOD SOMETHING LIKE THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN AGN. >> WE ARE NOT HAPPY WITH THE VERDICT, BUT WE UNDERSTAND THAT DUE TTO SITUATION WHERE THE STORY, WE TAKE IT A DAY AT A TIME, SOME DAYS ARE UP, SOME DAYS YOU’RE NOT, WE STICK TOGETHER AS A FAMILY. SHERMAN: TO READ MORE ABOUT THIS STORY, GO TO WDSU.

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‘A renaissance man’: Bourbon Street mourns bartender killed by stray bullet

Friend: ‘He was doing a job, and something like this happened.’

A Bourbon Street bartender died early Sunday after a stray bullet hit him in the chest, New Orleans police confirm to WDSU.Spencer Hudson, 46, was tending bar at the Cat’s Meow karaoke bar just after 2 a.m. Sunday when the bullet flew in from the street and hit him in the chest. He died at the scene.”This man was just working,” a longtime friend and former bartender said. “He was just working. He was doing a job, and something like his happened.”Friends say Hudson was planning a trip to Japan, where he hoped to teach English to students.”Talk about a renaissance man,” the friend added. “He was just a very special person who definitely didn’t deserve what happened to him.”Police took in the suspected shooter, 24-year-old Daphney Jackson, at the scene. She was booked for manslaughter, obstruction of justice and illegal use of weapons.

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A Bourbon Street bartender died early Sunday after a stray bullet hit him in the chest, New Orleans police confirm to WDSU.

Spencer Hudson, 46, was tending bar at the Cat’s Meow karaoke bar just after 2 a.m. Sunday when the bullet flew in from the street and hit him in the chest. He died at the scene.

“This man was just working,” a longtime friend and former bartender said. “He was just working. He was doing a job, and something like his happened.”

Friends say Hudson was planning a trip to Japan, where he hoped to teach English to students.

“Talk about a renaissance man,” the friend added. “He was just a very special person who definitely didn’t deserve what happened to him.”

Police took in the suspected shooter, 24-year-old Daphney Jackson, at the scene. She was booked for manslaughter, obstruction of justice and illegal use of weapons.

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