Mardi Gras Tourist Shot and Killed in Hotel Parking Lot After Being Caught in Crossfire of Two Cars

According to family members and police sources, a Mardi Gras reveler from Orangeburg, South Carolina, was killed after getting caught up in a crossfire in a hotel parking lot in New Orleans.

NOLA.com reported that Brandon Bovain, 33, was shot to death late Friday after checking into a hotel off Chef Menteur Highway with his brother and girlfriend.

Two cars suddenly opened fire while Bovain went back to grab his cellphone to finish the hotel check-in process.

“No one deserves to die that way,” one of Bovain’s brothers, James, told the outlet Tuesday. “He had nothing to do with the situation. Nobody expected it to be his last trip.

As of Tuesday, police in New Orleans had not yet identified the victim of the shooting that happened on Friday. However, senior law enforcement sources and Bovain‘s family have confirmed his identity.

Bolowin’s brothers said they were having a hard time dealing with his death since he spent his whole life in South Carolina, and that no one has been arrested in connection with the shooting.

It was one of two fatal shootings involving tourists in the city within 24 hours after a 15-year-old girl, Heaven Nettles, of Houston, was shot in a food truck line blocks from the Mardi Gras parade.

“To not have any resolution over what happened is, ultimately, the most disturbing part about it,” James Bovain said.

“Brandon was one of the happiest persons you could meet, and they took my heart away – man, they took my world away – for nothing,” Anthony Brown told NOLA.com.