NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — Officers with the New Orleans Police Department are investigating a shooting that left a woman dead in New Orleans East on Wednesday, June 12.
The NOPD reported that officers responded to a parking lot of a business in the 10800 block of Chef Menteur Highway around 3:59 p.m., where they found an unresponsive woman with a gunshot wound.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
According to the NOPD, officers detained a “person of interest for questioning in the incident.”
On Monday, June 17, the Orleans Parish coroner identified the victim as 28-year-old Coriana Leggett.
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 or toll-free at 1-877-903-STOP.
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