A 7th Ward shooting that left one man dead and a woman wounded late Sunday (May 26) marked New Orleans’ 12th and 13th victims of gunshots in just two days. The latest shooting was reported near the corner of St. Anthony and North Tonti streets, New Orleans police said.
Police said the man was pronounced dead on the scene by EMS, and the woman was transported to a local hospital for treatment, also by EMS.
Additional details about the 7th Ward shooting were not immediately available.
Saturday’s shootings in New Orleans included:
- A 50-year-old man<a href="http://bit.ly/2VOnQ2M"> fatally wounded</a> in the 2400 block of A.P. Tureaud Avenue early Saturday. The man had been walking up the street when an unknown person shot him multiple times, police said.
- A man who was <a href="https://www.nola.com/crime/2019/05/male-shot-dead-in-st-roch-area-new-orleans-police-say.html">fatally shot in the St. Roch </a>neighborhood. Authorities arrived to that scene, in the 2200 block of North Galvez Street, to find the victim lying on the sidewalk in front of a home with a gunshot wound to his torso. He was pronounced dead on the scene, police said.
- A man and a woman shot shortly before 10 p.m. in the 2300 block of A.P. Tureaud Avenue in the 7th Ward. Police said a man and a woman were sitting on the porch of a home when a male approached and began firing a weapon, before fleeing. Each of the two victims was wounded once. They arrived at a hospital for treatment. Police did not release any more details on the suspected shooter.
- A 15-year-old boy, a 17-year-old boy and a 21-year-old man on Lakeshore Drive. One or more shooters opened fire in the Lake Oaks/Lake Terrace area of New Orleans, near the University of New Orleans’ Lakefront Arena, according to NOPD. The shooting happened in the 5000 block of Lakeshore Drive.
And on Sunday, New Orleans shooting victims included:
- An 18-year-old man shot in Pigeon Town. About 1:45 a.m. Sunday, NOPD said it was investigating a shooting near the intersection of Cambronne and Cohn streets. Police said he arrived at a hospital with a gunshot wound to the body. The man told police he had been sitting inside his vehicle when he heard a single shot fired and realized he was wounded.
- Three people who arrived at a local hospital with gunshot wounds after <a href="http://bit.ly/30KAyDf" target=_blank>a shooting in Algiers</a>.
In Jefferson Parish, sheriff’s deputies found a wounded male at 4520 S. Interstate 10 Service Road, the address of the Pair of Dice lounge early Saturday. He was pronounced dead there, deputies said. A man was also shot in the 400 block of North Laurel Street in Metairie around 11:45 p.m. Saturday, JPSO said.
It is unknown if any of the shootings are related.
Staff writers Drew Broach, Manuel Torres and Olivia Prentzel contributed to this story.
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