New Orleans Police said the latest incident of violence in the city was justified after a man shot another man in self defense.

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2200 block of North Rampart.

Police said a man and woman were walking down North Rampart Street around 9 p.m. Tuesday night when another man walked up, put a gun to the woman’s back and said “give it up.”

Witnesses said an argument broke out, and that was when the man being robbed pulled out his own gun and shot the alleged robber three times.

Police called the incident justifiable homicide and said the man who shot the robber had a Louisiana concealed handgun permit.

The area the incident took place in, the Faubourg Marigny, has seen a heightened level of crime recently, including a string of bar robberies that plagued the area for weeks.