NOLA.com reports on the terrible bloodshed down there. 

New Orleans police are investigating a shooting incident in the 6th Ward that left a 21-year-old man dead early Saturday morning. The shooting occurred shortly after midnight in the 1900 block of St. Ann Street, according to statement by Officer Frank Robertson III, a department spokesman.

Robertson said the man was shot multiple times and died on the scene. The victim's name has not been released, pending notification of his family.

No information about a possible motive or suspect was given.

This makes the sixth homicide in the city since Wednesday. Harry "Mike" Ainsworth was killed in Algiers Wednesday morning after he intervened in a carjacking. Early Thursday morning, Derrick Howard, 25, and Darryl C. Long, 26, were found shot to death in a truck in the 7th Ward. An unidentified man was shot to death in Hollygrove late Thursday night. Another unidentified man was shot to death Friday in eastern New Orleans.

Lots o' guns down there in the Big Easy.