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Three shootings were reported in the past week in Uptown neighborhoods. A 57-year-old woman was wounded in a shooting Thursday evening (April 21) in Hollygrove. NOPD Second District officers found her suffering from multiple gunshot wounds at about 5:10 p.m.. in the 2600 block of Monroe Street. The Emergency Medical Service took her to the […]

The NOPD’s Homicide Unit and Violent Offenders Warrant Squad arrested Dalton C. Bennett Jr., 22, on Wednesday (Nov. 24) in the investigation of a July homicide and triple shooting in Central City. During a search of the location where Bennett was apprehended, detectives secured four assault rifles, five handguns, several bags of narcotics and a […]

15-year-old arrested for shooting death of 14-year-old in New Orleans An arrest warrant was obtained for the juvenile on a charge of second-degree murder. He also had an active arrest warrant out of the Seventh District. Credit: BestStockFoto - stock.adobe.com Author: WWL Staff Updated: 5:36 PM CDT May 13, 2021 NEW ORLEANS — New Orleans police arrested a 15-year-old for allegedly shooting and killing a 14-year-old last month. NOPD said on April 19, at around 7:35 p.m., officers were called to the corner of Washington Avenue and LaSalle Street where they found...

The NOPD has arrested a 15-year-old male in the investigation of a homicide on April 19 at Washington Avenue and LaSalle Street, near the A.L. Davis playground that claimed the life of a 14-year-old boy. At about 7:35 p.m. on April 19, NOPD Sixth District officers responded to the location and found a 14-year-old juvenile teen male having sustained a gunshot wound. The victim, Joel Nichols, was transported to a local hospital. On April 20, Joel died from his injuries. Sixth District detectives positively identified the 15-year-old juvenile as a suspect and obtained an arrest warrant on a char...