UPDATE: The Orleans Parish Coroner’s Office has identified the victim as 44-year-old William Bailey III.
NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — The New Orleans Police Department is investigating a homicide that left a man dead and a woman injured in the Tulane-Gravier neighborhood on Sunday, Aug. 27.
NOPD officials said officers responded to a call of a shooting in the 2600 block of Poydras Street around 5:58 p.m.
Upon arrival officers said they found a man and a woman suffering from gunshot wounds. They said the man suffered multiple gunshot wounds and was pronounced dead at the scene.
The woman sustained one gunshot wound and was transported to a hospital.
The investigation is ongoing.
Anyone with information about this homicide can call NOPD Homicide Detective Maurice Stewart 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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