Via 7news – Police shot eight people carrying guns on a New Orleans bridge, killing five or six, a deputy chief said. A spokesman for the Army Corps of Engineers said the victims were contractors on their way to repair a canal. The contractors were walking across a bridge on their way to launch barges into Lake Pontchartrain to fix the 17th Street Canal, said John Hall, a spokesman for the Corps.

(h/t Dan Riehl)

Update: Apparently, there was some confusion with this report, and it has since been corrected to say that contractors were NOT killed.