New Orleans, LA -- The family of Christopher Lambert gathers to pray outside of an abandoned home on Orleans Avenue.
"I just couldn't believe it, he was my nephew," says Victim's Aunt, Geraldine Lambert.
New Orleans Police Officers found the 21-year shot in the head around 4:45 p.m. Friday evening.
He died at the scene.
"He didn't deserve this, no matter what kind of life he was, he did not deserve to die like this," says Relative, Joanna Lambert.
From the Treme murder to a triple shooting in Marrero, to two separate shootings in New Orleans East, local law enforcement officers have busy over the past 24 hours.
A spokesperson for the New Orleans Police Department, Gary Flot, tells FOX 8, detectives are investigating the incidents and have leads on some of the cases.
Criminologist, Peter Scharf fears the violence across the metro area may only get worse.
"The last week has been horrible. You look at these murders guys shot in the middle of the day they look to me from afar as dope hits and if you want to keep people from being killed on mass," says Scharf.
"The FBI put out their statistics where the crime in the rest of the nation went up a dramatic amount ours in New Orleans stayed flat, but we still have too much of it," says New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu.
The victim's family members say the worry that criminals are becoming more brazen, because the shootings are taking place during daylight hours on busy streets.
"It's unbelievable, broad daylight nobody didn't see nothing," says Relative, Tierra Landry.
"I'm very unhappy about the culture of young kids just resolving their differences at the butt of a gun shooting in the head, that's something I believe that we can change," says Landrieu.
