NEW ORLEANS – Police are investigating a 7th Ward homicide, where a male victim was found shot to death inside a vehicle in the 2000 block of North Rocheblave Street, according to NOPD.
Around 7:30 p.m., officers were called to the scene, finding the 29-year-old male victim inside a vehicle.
He had been shot multiple times and was pronounced dead on the scene, according to police.
A white vehicle was seen fleeing the scene, according to police.
Less than an hour later, Fourth District officers were called to the scene of a homicide in Algiers, according to police.
The victim, a 31-year-old Algiers man, was fatally shot near the intersection of Gen. DeGaulle Boulevard and Woodland Highway, according to police.
When police arrived, the victim was found lying in a parking lot of a Family Dollar suffering from multiple gunshot wounds to the body.
Emergency medical technicians were summoned to the scene, and the victim was pronounced dead.
Anyone with information on either homicide is asked to call Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.
