BY GABRIELLA KILLETT | STAFF WRITER PUBLISHED NOV 7, 2021 AT 3:00 PM | UPDATED NOV 7, 2021 AT 3:17 PM
Dante Frazier, 42, was arrested Sunday for assaulting police officers after he exchanged gunfire with police at Saint Claude and Franklin avenues the night before, according to the New Orleans Police Department.
The NOPD responded to a call at about 10:39 p.m. Saturday involving a man in a car with a weapon. When they got there, they told the man, later identified as Frazier, to pull over to a parking lot and get out of the car, police said.
Frazier refused to show his hands and ran away with a rifle, exchanging gunfire with police as he fled, the NOPD said. Police said they established a perimeter and later arrested Frazier, who paramedics brought to an area hospital for a gunshot wound in his foot.
The NOPD did say how many officers fired their weapons during the incident.
Frazier was released from the hospital and booked into the Orleans Parish Justice Center Sunday morning on two counts of aggravated assault of a police officer, the NOPD said.
The shooting is under investigation by a team with the NOPD’s Public Integrity Bureau, which will will review body camera footage as a part of the investigation, police said.
Anyone with information regarding this crime is asked to contact the NOPD’s Public Integrity Bureau Force Investigation Team at (504) 658-6800.