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The first shooting happened in a neighborhood between two schools, the second happened near a busy intersection. Author: WWL Staff Updated: 10:40 AM CDT May 8, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Two people died in two New Orleans East shootings Friday night and Saturday morning, statements from police said.
Police officers were sent to the Little Woods area after someone reported gunfire near Dinkins and Meyn streets around 11:14 p.m. Friday, in the neighborhood between Lake Castle Private School and Robert Russa Monton Charter School.
When they arrived, officers found two men wounded by gunfire. The two victims were rushed to a hospital for treatment, but one of the victims died, a statement from the New Orleans Police Department s Public Affairs Division said.
Updated: 9:58 AM CST January 12, 2021
NEW ORLEANS Authorities say a man died in what police described as a “domestic incident” in New Orleans’ St. Claude neighborhood early Tuesday.
According to the New Orleans Police Department, officers responded to reports of a fight around 1:04 a.m. in the 3100 block of North Claiborne Avenue. Officers arriving at the scene found one adult man with no signs of life. Paramedics later pronounced him dead.
Police say it is unclear how the man died, but are investigating his death as a homicide.
After an autopsy, the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office will release the victim s name and the official cause of death but not before getting in touch with the victim s family.
Updated: 12:20 PM CST December 23, 2020
NEW ORLEANS A gunman was killed after trying to rob a New Orleans gas station East Tuesday night, police said.
The gunman walked into the gas station, got a drink and walked to the register before going behind the front counter and opening fire at store clerks, police said.
An employee fired back, hitting the gunman and killing him, a release from the New Orleans Police Department said.
Juan Barnes with NOPD s Public Affairs Division said killing the gunman was a justifiable homicide, meaning it was in self-defense according to Louisiana law.
The shooting happened in the 6500 block of Morrison Road in New Orleans, where the road meets the I-10 Service Road, a release from police said.