NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Officers with the New Orleans Police Department are investigating a shooting that left a man dead near the Lower Ninth Ward on Sunday, April 21.
The NOPD reported that officers responded to a call of a man down at the intersection of St. Claude Avenue and Gordon Street around 1:04 a.m.
At the scene, NOPD officers said they found a man, identified by the Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office as 39-year-old Roderick Thompson, suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to his back. He was pronounced dead at the scene by EMS.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information about the fatal shooting can call NOPD Homicide Section detectives at 504-658-5300 Crimestoppers of Greater New Orleans at 504-822-1111.
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