In citywide discussions, one little Uptown neighborhood that borders Mid City often gets overlooked. Gert Town is smack dab in the center of New Orleans. District B Councilmember LaToya Cantrell is hosting a community meeting to discuss new projects and hear input from residents on how to reinvigorate the historic subdistrict. 

New Orleans police are searching for a man involved in a Gert Town shooting that left a 21-year-old man dead Monday afternoon.The incident occurred in the 4100 block of Washington Avenue around 2:22 p.m., officials said. Police found Kendall Williams lying on the sidewalk, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his face and body. He was declared dead at the scene.

New Orleans Police are investigating a Monday night shooting in Gert Town that killed one man, and injured another. The incident occurred around 8:40 p.m. the 3000 block of Audubon St., officials said.

New Orleans police reported mixed progress Wednesday in tracking down a murder suspects in a pair of recent shootings that left multiple people dead and injured. The man who killed shot his estranged girlfriend and killed her mother on Monday surrendered to police. Meanwhile, a man wanted in connection with a quadruple weekend shooting that left one woman dead may be getting a little help from his friends in hiding out from the law.

Updated 3:45 p.m.

Two people died and another three were wounded in a pair of early Saturday night shootings in New Orleans. In one incident, a woman was killed and three people were wounded in Gert Town, according to NOPD. In the other shooting, a man was shot in a parking lot in eastern New Orleans.

On this week's syllabus of sin, a cross-dressing thief picked up a few extra accessories, home invaders gave back a university area woman's cell phone after stealing it and summer strollers helped themselves to angel statues, a grill and a weed eater, among other items. Crescent City Crime Bits takes a tour of local wrongdoing every week:

by Shay Sokol

Four men were murdered in New Orleans in a 36-hour period between Saturday night and Monday morning. Shortly before midnight on Saturday, June 9, a 21-year-old man was gunned down on his stoop in Central City. He passed away the next morning in the hospital. Shortly before 1:00pm on Sunday, June 10, a 27-year-old man was gunned down while leaving his apartment in the Palmetto Street Apartments in Hollygrove. He died on the staircase. Shortly before 6:00pm yesterday, a 24-year-old man was fatally shot and a 19-year-old female was shot in the leg in Gert Town.

On this week's docket of dereliction, a group of strip club workers decided they needed more money from another employee's purse, a rental car was used to make a getaway and Ms. Jackson showed she was for real in an argument over laundry. Each week, Crescent City Crime Bits provides a rundown of the lowdown:

by Shay Sokol

Yesterday, police said Micah Short, 21, fatally struck his 2-month-old daughter in the head because she wouldn’t stop crying, marking the second murder of a baby in New Orleans in one week. The incident happened in Gert Town, on the 3300 block of Fern Street around 8:00a.m. When Short and his wife arrived at the hospital with their daughter yesterday, the couple initially said Short was carrying the baby, and had tripped over a box, hitting the baby’s head against the crib by accident.

Another New Orleans bar was raided by police and state alcohol control agents last night. This time, it was The Hangar (1511 S. Rendon), a Gert Town bar that is mainly known for shows featuring rock and metal acts. On Saturday night, state agents entered for an inspection and ended up handing out a bevy of summons for underage drinking, fighting in the presence of police, for a total of 15 summons, according to New Orleans police. It wasn't immediately clear if a show was going on at the time of the "inspection." Click through to see all the summons issued.