From Rick Martin, CNN
updated 6:19 PM EST, Wed January 25, 2012
Police investigate the scene in New Orleans' Algiers Point neighborhood. The shooter is being sought.
STORY HIGHLIGHTS
- Mike Ainsworth is fatally shot after running to help a woman in New Orleans
- The good Samaritan's two sons, ages 9 and 10, sit with their father as he dies
- The woman is unharmed, and police search for the gunman, an apparent carjacker
(CNN) -- A 44-year-old New Orleans man died in front of his two sons Wednesday after he responded to a woman's screams and was shot by an apparent carjacker, according to police and family members.
Mike Ainsworth was with his two sons, ages 9 and 10, as the boys were waiting for a morning school bus, Ainsworth's brother, Bill, told CNN affiliate WWL.
The two boys saw their father try to help the female motorist in the Algiers Point neighborhood and, after their father was shot, the boys ran to him and sat with him until emergency responders showed up, Bill Ainsworth said.
"They were there with him when he passed," Ainsworth said. "It's going to be hard on them."
"Pray the cops find him before I do," he said about the carjacker, in an interview with CNN affiliate WDSU.
The woman was unharmed, New Orleans police spokesman Frank Robertson said.
"When you have someone trying to come to the aid of someone who is in need and -- whenever something like this happens, it's a real tragedy," police Lt. Gary Marchese told WWL.
Skip Gallagher, president of the Algiers Point Neighborhood Association, told WDSU that good Samaritans aren't unusual in the neighborhood.
"I think any other male that had heard that in the neighborhood would have done the same thing," Gallagher said. "They heard some woman screaming, they would have come running. I would have, and every male in this neighborhood would have done the same thing, and we see what happens.
"I'm not sure it's going to change my behavior."
CNN's Michael Martinez contributed to this report.
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