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Police have “not received clarity” on whether Gloston-Phelps was referring to illegal acts, such as prostitution, Defillo said. Nonetheless, detectives are confident that Gloston-Phelps is the triggerman.
Gloston-Phelps was detained and questioned by police in the wake of the shooting. He was booked that evening into Orleans Parish jail on outstanding warrants from Jefferson Parish, according to court records. New Orleans police also booked him on a municipal charge of trespassing.
Detectives worked the case continuously since Tuesday night and received new information Thursday that centered on Gloston-Phelps as the shooter, Defillo said.
Police recovered two pistols from the hotel on Tuesday night. Officers also returned Thursday and found an assault rifle and another pistol hidden inside the ceiling tiles of the fourth-floor hotel room, Defillo said.
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The Canal Street Hotel, a budget hotel housed in a 50-year-old building at the corner of Canal Street and Claiborne Avenue, has long been a hotbed of crime, hosting prostitutes and drug-runners and delinquents, police said.

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