Medical student shot while trying to stop robbery

Adams, an associate professor and chair of Tulane’s Department of Sociology, said Gold was chosen from about 60 students the year he graduated to win the department’s “Outstanding Student” award.

The shooting victim was taken to a hospital and was listed in guarded condition.

Surveillance cameras captured the events that led up to the shooting as well as the attacker’s escape.

According to a witness at the scene, a woman was being robbed on St. Mary Street at the corner on Magazine Street.

“It’s my understanding she was fairly intoxicated at the time and may have been in the wrong place at the wrong time”, NOPD Lieutenant Nick Gernon told reporters Friday evening.

A camera recorded video of a man dragging a woman to his nearby sports utility vehicle.

Police said Gold thought the woman was being abducted. At that point the assailant gets out of his vehicle, takes out what appears to be an automatic weapon and points it at Gold’s head. The video shows Gold park and approach the SUV on foot.

But the attacker wasn’t finished.

As Gold lay on the sidewalk in pain, the gunman then tried to shoot him in the head several times, but the gun jammed.

Police urged the public to help identify the shooter, who police said should be considered armed and unsafe.

‘There are a few parts of it where you can see the person’s face, and you can see the SUV he flees in’.

WARNING: a few may find security footage of the shooting disturbing.

Tulane University announced that it is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and indictment of a subject who shot a medical student as the student tried to stop a crime early Friday morning in the Lower Garden District.

Update, 6:05 p.m.: The Tulane University student shot in the stomach Friday morning while trying to break up an apparent Uptown mugging is being treated for his injuries at University Medical Center.