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NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A man identified by Louisiana police as a "person of interest" in connection with a weekend shooting in New Orleans turned himself in to police Wednesday and was jailed on unrelated charges.

Justin Odom, 20, was booked into the Jefferson Parish jail on shoplifting and traffic-related charges, New Orleans Police Department Officer Hilal Williams said.

"Our detectives questioned him in the presence of his attorney," Williams said.

Odom was not booked on any charges related to the shooting, which happened early Sunday on New Orleans' tourist-clogged Bourbon Street.

Odom turned himself in hours after police announced that they were looking for him and that one of the shooting victims, a 21-year-old woman, had died. Nine other people were shot but were expected to survive.

Earlier Wednesday, Louisiana State Police Superintendent Mike Edmonson asked for a moment of silence after announcing the death of the woman, from Hammond. A spokesman for the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office later Wednesday confirmed the woman had died but did not release her name.

In addition to Odom, police said they were looking for one of his associates named Josh or Joe, also described as a person of interest.

Edmonson spoke at a news conference to discuss Landrieu's request for a permanent contingent of troopers to help with law enforcement in New Orleans.

Edmonson said state police doesn't have the manpower to put a permanent contingent of 100 troopers in New Orleans. However, he said he is looking at redeploying the approximately 45 people already assigned to New Orleans as the city comes to grips with Sunday's deadly shooting in the French Quarter.

Landrieu had asked for the extra police presence to help the city's police force following the early Sunday shooting. Ten people, most of them visitors to the city, were hit.

Three of the shooting victims were reported in stable condition Wednesday: a 35-year-old man from Mississippi, a 19-year-old Arkansas woman, and an 18-year-old New Orleans man.

LSU Interim Hospital spokeswoman Siona LaFrance said Wednesday that a 21-year-old Australian woman was released from the hospital.

Other victims, not hospitalized, included two New Orleans-area men; a teenage girl and a woman from Alabama; and a Florida man.

The Australian woman, identified by The West Australian (http://yhoo.it/1mRHNBd ) as Amy Williams, of Mount Hawthorn, a suburb of Perth in Western Australia, did not immediately respond Wednesday to messages sent via her Facebook page or "Repair Amy's smile," a Facebook page created to raise money to reconstruct her teeth.

She told the newspaper that all or part of a bullet went in through her right cheek and out through her top lip, knocking out most of her teeth, burning her gums and requiring 30 stitches in her tongue and a metal support for the roof of her mouth.

The shootings happened at about 2:45 a.m. Sunday, as tourists walked the historic street of century-old, neon-bedecked buildings, housing bars, restaurants, shops and strip clubs in the heart of the city's oldest neighborhood.

Police Chief Ronal Serpas has said that nine officers — four on foot and five on horseback — were assigned to Bourbon Street at that time and officers arrived within seconds.

Even so, Serpas and Landrieu both said they would like to see the city police force, now around 1,200 after years of attrition, beefed up to around 1,600.

Serpas said overtime and people from other parts of the department will put 500 extra officers on duty in key spots as thousands of visitors hit town for the annual Essence Festival, which begins Thursday.

State police also will be helping with Essence security.

Edmonson spoke to reporters before briefing a temporary contingent of 30 troopers brought in for the annual festival, which draws thousands of tourists during the Independence Day weekend.

State police often supplement city police with extra troopers during special events such as Mardi Gras or Super Bowls. Edmonson said the state doesn't usually bring in extra troopers during Essence, but the decision was made to do so after Sunday's shooting.

As for Landrieu's request for a 100-person permanent contingent, Edmonson said he has to keep other areas of the state in mind. "I'd have to take them from somewhere else," he said.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Intelligence officials are concerned about a new al-Qaida effort to create a bomb that would go undetected through airport security, according to a counterterrorism official, prompting the U.S. to call for tighter security measures Wednesday at some foreign airports.

The counterterrorism official, who would not be named because he was not authorized to discuss the matter publicly, declined to describe the kind of information that triggered this warning. But officials in the past have raised concerns about non-metallic explosives being surgically implanted inside a traveler's body, designed to be undetectable in pat-downs or metal detectors.

The U.S. has been planning for additional measures for the past month, a counterterrorism official said Wednesday, adding there was no immediate threat that led to the announcement by the Homeland Security Department that it was requesting tighter security abroad.

American intelligence has picked up indications that bomb makers from al-Qaida's Yemen affiliate have traveled to Syria to link up with the al-Qaida affiliate there. The groups are working to perfect an explosive device that could foil airport security, the counterterrorism official said.

Americans and others from the West have traveled to Syria over the past year to join al Nusra Front's fight against the Syrian government. The fear is that fighters with a U.S. or Western passport — and therefore subject to less stringent security screening — could carry such a bomb onto an American plane.

Al-Qaida's affiliate in Yemen, called al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula, long has been fixated on bringing down airplanes with hidden explosives. It was behind failed and thwarted plots involving suicide bombers with explosives designed to hide inside underwear and explosives hidden inside printer cartridges shipped on cargo planes.

It wasn't clear which airports were affected by the extra security measures, but industry data show that more than 250 foreign airports offer nonstop service to the U.S., including Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport, Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport and the United Arab Emirates' Dubai International Airport.

The call for increased security was not connected to Iraq or the recent violence there, said a second U.S. counterterrorism official who was not authorized to speak publicly by name. Another U.S. official, also speaking on condition of anonymity, said the increased security measures had nothing to do with the upcoming July Fourth holiday or any specific threat.

The extra security is out of an "abundance of caution," the U.S. official said.

Meanwhile, the State Department has instructed U.S. Embassy employees in Algeria to avoid U.S.-owned or operated hotels through July 4 and the Algerian Independence Day on July 5.

"As of June 2014 an unspecified terrorist group may have been considering attacks in Algiers, possibly in the vicinity of a U.S.-branded hotel," according to the message from the U.S. Embassy in Algeria.

State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki did not provide details about the reasons for the increased security.

"I would say broadly speaking that the threat of foreign fighters is a concern that we share with many counterparts in the world, whether that's European or others in the Western world, where we've seen an increase in foreign fighters who have traveled to Syria and other countries in the region and returning," Psaki said. "And so we have been discussing a range of steps we can take in a coordinated fashion for some time."

The U.S. shared "recent and relevant" information with foreign allies, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said in a statement Wednesday. "Aviation security includes a number of measures, both seen and unseen, informed by an evolving environment."

Southwest Airlines, which along with subsidiary AirTran Airways, flies between the U.S. and Mexico and the Caribbean, doesn't expect the directive to have much impact on its operations, spokesman Chris Mainz said. He said the focus likely would be in other parts of the world, although the airline's security personnel have been contacted by the Homeland Security Department. Mainz declined to comment on those discussions.

American Airlines spokesman Joshua Freed said the company has been in contact with Homeland Security about the new requirements but declined to comment further.

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Associated Press writers Eric Tucker, Lara Jakes and Joan Lowy in Washington and David Koenig in Dallas contributed to this report.

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) — The euphoria in soccer-mad Colombia is deafening, and wonderfully contagious, ahead of Friday's do-or-die World Cup match against host Brazil.

Never before has the star-crossed nation made the quarterfinals. Some are even waxing poetic about World Cup unity accelerating the pace of 18-month-old peace talks to end a half-century of conflict that has claimed some 220,000 lives.

Half the population seems to be wearing the canary-yellow national jersey, even on days Colombia isn't playing. And the merrymaking, from singing in the streets to collective game-watching on huge screens in public parks, is often so unrestrained that many big-city mayors have imposed bans on alcohol sales on game days.

The fear, of course, is that it all will be fleeting and the violence and intolerance that have long plagued the Andean nation will re-emerge at the tournament's end.

"Soccer has always worked as a tool of union and a tool for nation-building," said Alexander Castro, a National University sociologist. "But soccer is also as ephemeral as a particular game. And when this World Cup ends it will be like a passing fad, and we'll be back to our old habits."

Not since Colombia drubbed Argentina 5-0 in a 1993 World Cup qualifier has the South American nation of 48 million been so enthralled by the beautiful game.

"Colombia is going to make it to the final because it has the fundamentals and preparation, and (the players) have great courage and desire," said Leonardo Soto, a 23-year-old paralegal in Bogota.

No country's fan base is apparently as dedicated as Colombia. Out of 19 surveyed in a pre-World Cup poll done by YouGov.com for The New York Times. Just 6 percent of Colombians weren't interested in the game, followed by Mexico with 8 percent and Argentina with 10 percent. The United States, by contrast, had at 60-percent apathy rating.

President Juan Manuel Santos is among the devoted, and planned to attend Friday's contest.

The Colombian team's unselfish poise and grace are about the only thing Santos and his political nemesis, ex-President Alvaro Uribe, can agree on these days as they spar over the handling peace talks with the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

And even the leftist FARC has claimed a stake in the national cheering section. Before the tourney, rebel negotiators sent the team a letter that gushed "with people like you, we're sure to go far."

Aldo Civico, a Rutgers University anthropologist and conflict resolution expert, says "the joyful and intense expression of unity" around the Colombian team's four-game winning streak has let people "transcend the political tribalism" that has defined Colombia's violent history.

It reminded him, he said, of how Nelson Mandela used South Africa's love of rugby as a tool of post-apartheid reconciliation.

The fear, of course, is that, lacking a Mandela, the unity will evaporate after the last referee's whistle sounds.

No one, says former coach and player Alexis Garcia, wants to relive the anguish and shame Colombians felt after the July 2, 1994 slaying in a Medellin discotheque parking lot of 27-year-old defender Andres Escobar, who had knocked Colombia out of contention by accidentally kicking the ball into his own net in a game against the United States.

He was shot six times by the driver of two suspected drug traffickers, one of whom had complained to him about his blunder 10 days earlier in Los Angeles.

Michael Zimbalist, who with his brother Jeffrey made the 2010 documentary "The Two Escobars" about Colombian professional soccer's tainting by drug lords including Pablo Escobar, says the nation deserves credit for largely cleaning itself up in the years since both Escobars were killed.

It's heartwarming, said brother Jeffrey, how football extends to a country's sense of identity and has allowed the world to see a special side of Colombia it hadn't known.

Which is not to say that either brother believes drug money is all gone from the sport.

In 2006, a drug trafficker affiliated with far-right militias named Gustavo Upegui was slain in his bedroom by a gun-wielding intruder.

Upegui had been running the Envigado club just outside Medellin and had recently purchased the rights to an adolescent he thought had a brilliant future.

In fact, that player currently leads all World Cup scorers with five goals.

His name: James Rodriguez.

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Associated Press writer Libardo Cardona reported this story in Bogota and Frank Bajak reported from Lima, Peru. AP writer Cesar Garcia in Bogota contributed to this report.

CAIRO (AP) — Three homemade bombs went off near Egypt's presidential palace in Cairo on Monday, killing two senior police officers and injuring 10 other people on the anniversary of the mass protests that led to the ouster of Islamist President Mohammed Morsi.

The devices were planted less than 20 meters (yards) away from the walls of the Ittihadiya palace in the upscale Heliopolis district in eastern Cairo, in what appeared to be a serious security breach in the heavily policed area.

It was not immediately clear whether President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, who as army chief ousted Morsi, was inside the palace when the explosions occurred.

There was no immediate claim of responsibility for the blasts, which bore the hallmarks of Islamic militant groups sympathetic to Morsi. A militant group that has claimed responsibility for previous attacks on police said in a statement dated June 27 that it had planned to plant bombs around Ittihadiya but aborted the attack earlier this month.

Ajnad Misr, or Soldiers of Egypt, said it planted explosives near the palace on June 18 to hit its security contingent. But it said it aborted the attack because civilians came close to the explosives. It said its operatives were unable to retrieve the devices but have been diverting civilians away from them. The statement's claims could not be verified and it was not clear if the devices were connected to Monday's blasts.

Security officials said the first bomb to go off Monday slightly wounded three street cleaners, while a second and third exploded while bomb squad teams were trying to defuse them, killing a police colonel and a lieutenant-colonel, and wounding seven other people. Another device in the area was discovered and safely defused, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters.

The Interior Ministry confirmed the deaths of the two officers without providing further details.

An Associated Press video showed the immediate aftermath of the second explosion, with plainclothes police carrying away the dead colonel and an injured policeman on stretchers as a cloud of white smoke rises from the site.

Security forces also sealed off roads leading to the palace, with police dogs used in the search for more explosive devices and special police forces arriving at the scene.

The blasts fell on the anniversary of the start of several days of massive protests in which millions of Egyptians demanded that Morsi step down. The protests culminated with Morsi's removal on July 3 and subsequent imprisonment. El-Sissi retired from the military and was elected president in May for a four-year term.

On the other side of town, security forces sealed off Tahrir Square — epicenter of the 2011 uprising that toppled longtime ruler Hosni Mubarak — to search for explosives. The square will be the venue for celebrations due later on Monday to mark the anniversary of the anti-Morsi protests.