One person was shot and killed in the St. Claude area of New Orleans on Saturday afternoon, according to New Orleans police.

The shooting happened in the 1300 block of France Street. NOPD reported it around 3:15 p.m.

Behind the yellow tape was a neighborhood business, France Meat Market, and a few houses with a handful of residents barricaded to their porches while the investigation ensued. At least 30 neighbors surrounded the scene in a crowd where tensions ran high and fights broke out.

Many of them didn’t want to talk about what happened. Others strolled up minutes later to find out the details.

One neighbor was walking her dogs when she returned to find police around the same block she had started her trek just 30 minutes prior.

“Thank God we weren’t here,” she said.

She heard from another neighbor that it took police 8 minutes to arrive after 911 was called and EMS an additional 4 minutes.

“It’s the 9th Ward," she said. "It’s a fact of life here.”

The victim, who one neighbor said is a man, hasn't been identified. The coroner's van left the scene around 4:25 p.m.

No information about a possible motive or suspect has been released yet.

It's the fifth homicide in four days to start 2020 after 2019 in which homicides hit a 50-year low.