NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Officers with the New Orleans Police Department are investigating a shooting that left a man dead in the Plum Orchard neighborhood on Sunday, May 19.
The NOPD reported officers responded to a call of a shooting in the 4500 block of Werner Drive around 6:35 a.m., where they found a man, identified by the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office as 40-year-old Dominique Jones, suffering from a gunshot wound in front of a home.
Jones was taken to a hospital by EMS, where he later died.
The investigation is ongoing.
The NOPD did not release additional information.
Anyone with information about the fatal shooting can call NOPD Homicide Section detectives at 504-658-5300 or Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans at 504-822-1111.
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