Double shooting in Central City leaves one man dead, another man injured Officers responded to a call of a shooting at the intersection of St. Charles Avenue and Jackson Avenue. (Source: WVUE) By Tiffany Baptiste | May 6, 2021 at 5:53 AM CDT - Updated May 6 at 7:41 AM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - New Orleans Police are investigating a double shooting early Thursday morning that has left one man dead and another man injured.
NOPD reported the shooting just before 3:30 a.m.
Officers responded to a call of a shooting in the 700 block of Robert C. Blakes Sr. Drive. When they arrived at the scene they found one man at the scene with a gunshot wound. They also learned that a second male victim was en route to a local hospital by private conveyance. One of the victims later died of their injuries.
(via NOPD)
A man was killed in a double shooting early Thursday (May 6) in Central City near St. Charles Avenue, the New Orleans Police Department reported.
At about 2:50 a.m., Sixth District officers discovered two victims with gunshot wounds – a male victim transported via private conveyance to a local hospital and a second male victim found at the scene. Medical responders took the second victim to the emergency room.
One of the victims died at the hospital, police said, and the shooting was reclassified as a homicide. Police did not know the identity of the victims.
They shooting was initially reported at St. Charles and Jackson avenues. NOPD later said the shooting occurred in 1700 block of Robert C. Blakes Sr. Drive, a block from St. Charles and about six blocks from Jackson.
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