Police: Kings Park Couple Arrested After New Orleans Shooting

New Orleans police arrested a couple from Kings Park on Tuesday after they say the pair was involved in a shooting at a hotel in New Orleans.

Friends of the pair circulated a flyer in Kings Park last week stating the couple was missing and that they believed the two had fled to North Carolina.

According to the Times-Picayune, Kevin Cahill, 29 of Kings Park, tried to kill a 49-year-old Florida man in a hotel room in the Wyndham Garden Plaza Hotel in the Central Business District and also accidentally shot his girlfriend, Sara Mott, 27, of Kings Park, in the foot at about 9 a.m. on Tuesday.

Witnesses, according to the report, said the man appeared to be shot in the chest and stomach. Police took drugs and a handgun from the scene.

The two tried to flee the hotel but were caught by police.

Newsday reports that the Orleans Parish Sheriff's Office show that Mott was charged with attempted first-degree murder. Cahill has multiple charges including attempted first-degree murder, as well as  possession of a firearm or weapon by a felon.

According to the report, the Florida man was in critical condition Tuesday afternoon. To read the full story on the Times-Picayune, click here.